Home slaughtering is the slaughter of one's own animal outside of approved slaughterhouses, whereby the meat and the products made from it may only be used in the animal owner's own household.

This also means that this meat may not be given to acquaintances or relatives who do not live in the owner's own household. It is irrelevant whether the meat is given away free of charge or for a fee.

If a transfer to third parties is planned, the slaughtering mustbe carried out in an EU-approved slaughterhouse.

No statutory hygiene regulations apply to home slaughtering. You yourself decide on the cleanliness of your work.

The following are subject to official (ante-mortem and post-mortem) inspection (including Trichinella inspection if applicable) for home slaughtering

• cattle
• pigs
• sheep
• farmed game
• Goats and other cloven-hoofed animals,
• horses and other solipeds,

provided their meat is intended for human consumption.