Notification of animal husbandry

You must report the keeping of the following animals to the competent authority.

• cattle
• Pigs (also minipigs)
• sheep
• goats
• Equidae (e.g. horses, donkeys, mules, hinnies, zebras, zebrids)
• chickens
• ducks
• geese
• pheasants
• Guinea fowl
• Partridges
• Pigeons
• Turkeys
• Quails
• ratites (e.g. emu, ostrich, nandu)
• Game (e.g. fallow deer, red deer, mouflon, roe deer)
• Camelids (e.g. camel, dromedary, alpaca, llama, vicuña, guanaco)
• Other cloven-hoofed animals
• Fish (aquaculture farms and fishing ponds with e.g. trout, carp, pike, tench, goldfish, eels, lampreys, decapods, molluscs (this list is not exhaustive))
• Bees and bumblebees

After successful notification, your animal husbandry (business) will receive a twelve-digit registration number.

For the animal species cattle, pig, sheep, goat and horse, which are managed in the "Animal Origin and Information System" (HI-Tier for short), the farm automatically receives an access PIN for the system after registration.