Bossier City, LA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

Three separate provisions in chapter 14, article II govern livestock and poultry in Bossier City. Section 14-33 flatly prohibits raising poultry, commercial or personal, anywhere within the city limits, which reaches backyard chicken keeping outright rather than merely regulating it. Section 14-34 separately bans letting chickens, ducks, geese, guineas, or turkeys run at large in the city, a distinct offense from the raising ban itself.

Section 14-31 restricts larger farm animals: cattle, horses, mules, goats, sheep, or other domesticated farm animals cannot be grazed, tied out, staked out, or kept overnight in any lot or enclosure within 100 feet of an occupied residence. The 100-foot measurement runs from any portion of a building on an adjacent lot used as a residence, so the restriction is triggered by neighboring homes, not just the animal owner's own house.

Section 14-32 makes grazing, tying out, staking out, or letting cattle, horses, mules, goats, sheep, or other farm animals run at large on a public park, playground, street, sidewalk, or other public ground a misdemeanor. The city health officer may seize and impound any such animal found in a public place, holding it until the owner redeems it by paying impoundment costs plus the court-assessed fine. An animal not redeemed within 30 days can be sold at public auction after ten days' advertisement, or destroyed by the health officer if a sale would not cover the costs of keeping and selling it.