[wayfarer]

Each year I get up to 4 lambs to raise for meat.  Up to now I have only transported these c50km so I have not had to have a transporter licence.  If I had to transport lambs from further afield do I need a transporter licence as this is not a business and do I require any certificates of competence.  If I do, how do I get these. I have had a look online but it doesn't seem very clear so I wanted to know what other people thought / do.

[Hillview Farm]

If it is not a business them no you don't but if memory serve me, I think I saw somewhere that you would need the same amount of people as animals... Chances of being caught? Possible but slim

[Rosemary]

http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/livestock/general/transporting-livestock/

[SallyintNorth]

http://www.accidentalsmallholder.net/livestock/general/transporting-livestock/

Uh... I couldn't find anything about transporting livestock there, apart from links to the relevant gov't sites

[Anke]

You only need a certificate of competence if the transport is part of a business activity. Any animals for your own freezer won't require one. You do need however apply for a transporter's licence (the one for shorter journeys, less than 6 hours I think), and those should be sent to you from? can't remember who does them, but probably Animal Health.