Bulloch County, GA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

Section 1405 of the Zoning Ordinance (Appendix C) regulates domesticated livestock and residential fowl. Horses, cows, pigs, ponies, donkeys and other livestock kept for home use are allowed only on tracts of two acres or more, and stocking is capped at one animal per acre. Any building or structure in a residential district used to house or restrain that livestock must sit at least 50 feet from all property lines and at least 250 feet from any residence, and the area needs a four-foot landscape buffer and fence, or a wall, or a 100 percent opaque fence along the rear of the primary building and the side and rear parcel boundaries.

Keeping, breeding or training animals or fowl for monetary gain is treated as a commercial business and is expressly prohibited in residential districts unless it qualifies as a home occupation, and killing, slaughtering or butchering livestock or fowl, even for personal consumption, is likewise expressly prohibited in residential districts. For chickens specifically, Section 1405(f) caps a residential lot at eight hens as a non-commercial accessory use; lots larger than eight acres may add one additional hen per whole acre beyond the eighth. No rooster is permitted on the property under any circumstance.