New Regulations for the Slaughter of poultry Jan 2013

Does anyone know what the new regulations will mean for those of us who dispatch birds for the table?  It was mentioned in a recent edition of Practical Poultry mag which said that there will be implications for anyone with poultry over 5kg but that was all.  I've tried to make sense of the following info on Defra but still can't work it out.
 
"Regulation EU 1099/2009 introduces new arrangements for slaughter licences from 1 January 2013."
http://www.defra.gov.uk/food-farm/animals/welfare/slaughter/

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2009:303:0001:0030:EN:PDF

On Page 19 of 30 it says

"5   Cervical dislocation
     Manual or mechanical stretching and twist of the neck provoking cerebral ischemia.
     Poultry up to 5 kg live weight.
     See Point 3.  Manual cervical dislocation shall not be used on animals of more than three kg live weight."

Ih Kegs, after quickly reading through it, the ruling applies specificaly to slaughter houses as far as i can see.

However the points that you highlight are basically saying that poultry up to 5kg (11lbs) live weight can be killed using cervical dislocation without prior electrical stunning.  those birds between 3 and 5kg should ne by killed by manual dusclocation, but rather with the aid of an apparatus (such as a humane dispatcher).

for birds over 5kg, as far as I can see, they would been to be electrically stunned first, before the neck is broken.

Switch to bantams... or learn to love poussin

For birds between 3 and 5kg you will be OK with using a humane dispatcher, but over that you will need a stunner.

Unless you are thinking turkeys, I can't imagine many chickens getting to 5kg live weight.  If they are, you maight want to consider slaughtering sooner, at 10-12 weeks rather than 14-16 weeks (for meat hybrids).