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The Nitrate Pollution Prevention Regulations 2015

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Regulations 2(1), 7(3),25(1) and (2), 26(1),27(1) and (2) and 34(4)

SCHEDULE 1Manure, nitrogen and phosphate produced by livestock

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Grazing livestock

CategoryDaily manure produced by each animal (litres)Daily nitrogen produced by each animal (grams)Daily phosphate produced by each animal (grams)
(1)

In the case of a ewe, the figures include one or more suckled lambs until the lambs are aged 6 months.

Cattle

Calf (all categories except veal) younger than 2 months72312.7
Dairy cow—
From 2 months to less than 12 months209534
From 12 months up to first calf4016769
After first calf and—
  • annual milk yield more than 9000 litres

64315142
  • annual milk yield between 6000 and 9000 litres

53276121
  • annual milk yield less than 6000 litres

4221193
Beef cow or steer—
From 2 months to less than 12 months209133
From 12 months to less than 24 months2613743
From 24 months—
  • females or steers for slaughter

3213760
  • females for breeding—

  • weighing 500kg or less

3216765
  • weighing more than 500kg

4522786
Bulls—
Non-breeding, 2 months and over2614824
Breeding—
  • from 2 months to less than 24 months

2613743
  • from 24 months

2613260

Sheep

From 6 months up to 9 months1.85.50.76
From 9 months to first lambing, first tupping or slaughter1.83.92.1
After lambing or tupping(1)
  • weighing less than 60kg

3.3218.8
  • weighing 60kg or more

53310

Goat, deer and horse

Goat3.54118.8
Deer—
  • breeding

54217.6
  • other

3.53311.7
Horse245856

Non-grazing livestock

CategoryDaily manure produced by each animal (litres or, in the case of poultry, kilograms)Daily nitrogen produced by each animal (grams)Daily phosphate produced by each animal (grams)
(1)

All figures for poultry include litter

Cattle

Veal calf72312.7

Poultry(1)

Chicken used for producing eggs for human consumption—
  • less than 17 weeks

0.040.640.47
  • from 17 weeks (caged)

0.121.131.0
  • from 17 weeks (not caged)

0.121.51.1
Chickens raised for meat0.061.060.72
Chickens raised for breeding—
  • less than 25 weeks

0.040.860.78
  • from 25 weeks

0.122.021.5
Turkey—
  • male

0.163.743.1
  • female

0.122.832.3
Duck0.12.482.4
Ostrich1.63.8318.5

Pigs

Weighing from 7kg to less than 13kg1.34.11.3
Weighing from 13kg to less than 31kg214.26
Weighing from 31kg to less than 66kg—
  • dry fed

3.72412.1
  • liquid fed

7.12412.1
Weighing from 66kg and—
  • intended for slaughter—

  • dry fed

5.13317.9
  • liquid fed

103317.9
  • sow intended for breeding that has not yet had first litter

5.63820
  • sow (including litter up to 7kg) fed on a diet supplemented with synthetic amino acids

10.94437
  • sow (including litter up to 7kg) fed on a diet without synthetic amino acids

10.94937
  • breeding boar weighing from 66kg to less than 150kg

5.13317.9
  • breeding boar weighing from 150kg

8.74828

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