What is your town’s ordinance on raising chickens in your backyard?

September 29, 2011 | Filed under: Poultry | Posted by:

Question by Heather F: What is your town’s ordinance on raising chickens in your backyard?
Our village has an ordinance against backyard chickens. I’d like to find towns where it is a protected right to use as an example.

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2 Responses to What is your town’s ordinance on raising chickens in your backyard?

  1. Vancouver, British Columbia – here are two websites that explain the new bylaw in regard to keeping chickens in your backyard.

    http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/socialplanning/initiatives/foodpolicy/projects/chickens.htm

    see section 7 in regard to keeping chickens
    http://vancouver.ca/bylaws/9150c.pdf

    beenthere
    September 29, 2011 at 3:28 pm
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  2. Los Angeles. You can have chickens but the coop must be 25 feet from a neighbors living quarter. and 10 feet from yours.

    DaveSFV
    September 29, 2011 at 3:29 pm
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