If you keep animals or handle animals, you are obliged to inform the responsible department for consumer protection, trade and the environment immediately if you suspect an animal disease. Outside the usual reachability, the police must be informed.
In order to prevent dental diseases or to detect them at an early stage, you as a person with health insurance can take advantage of preventive dental services.
If you suspect avian influenza (bird flu) in wild birds and domestic poultry, you must immediately inform the veterinary office responsible for your area.
You are required to pay a contribution to the animal health insurance fund in Hamburg for your livestock and you will be sent a notification of the annual contribution every year.
If you keep cattle, pigs, sheep, goats or horses, you must report your livestock to the Tierseuchenkasse Hamburg immediately. In the future, the current number of animals will be surveyed annually by the animal disease fund on the key date of March 1st.
