Ada County's animal-control chapter does not set chicken or livestock limits. Whether you can keep hens, roosters, or farm animals depends on your parcel's zoning under Title 8 (Ada County Zoning), which is permissive on agricultural and rural-residential land in unincorporated areas.
The Ada County Animal Control Ordinance (Title 5, Ch. 7) governs dogs, cats, and prohibited/dangerous animals, not poultry or livestock husbandry. Keeping chickens, roosters, goats, horses, or cattle is a land-use question decided by Title 8, the Ada County Zoning Code, administered by Development Services. Agricultural and rural-residential zones generally allow poultry and livestock by right, while suburban-residential zones may restrict numbers or setbacks. County code does apply a nuisance backstop: 5-7-14 exempts animals kept on agriculturally zoned land from the barking/noise nuisance rule but excessive feces or aggressive animals can still be nuisances. Inside a city, that city's code controls.
No animal-chapter penalty for keeping fowl or livestock; violations of zoning limits or setbacks are enforced by Ada County Development Services under Title 8.
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