Chino Hills, CA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

12, Animal Raising as Accessory Use. 060's table for "a combination of chickens or similar fowl (hens only), rabbits or other similar small animals" scales the allowance to lot area: fewer than 7,200 square feet allows two animals per lot or unit, exactly 7,200 square feet allows three, 10,000 square feet allows four, and 20,000 square feet or more allows one bird per 2,000 square feet of lot area, with a hard cap of nine birds of any one species. Male fowl, which includes roosters, are governed separately: they require a full one-acre lot and are capped at nine birds total but no more than two of any single species.

010 requires that any structure built to house the birds, such as a coop or pen, comply with the development standards for the applicable zoning district, and that lot area used to qualify one animal type not be reused to qualify another. 040. 010(C) makes it unlawful in any residential zone to keep a rooster or other fowl whose sound or cry unreasonably disturbs the peace and quiet of the neighborhood, which functions as the city's practical rooster-noise control even where the acreage minimum is met.

Combinations of animal raising uses beyond these densities, such as educational animal projects, require a special use permit processed under the San Bernardino County Code provisions adopted into the Chino Hills Municipal Code by Ordinances 91-01 and 92-02.