Clark County, IN Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

21 sets up the A1 Agricultural Zone as the county's baseline rural district, and its permitted-uses list in subsection (B) spells out that no building, structure, or premises in the district may be used for anything except the uses listed there. The first entry covers agricultural uses including crop raising, truck gardens, greenhouses and plant nurseries and accessories as normally associated with such agricultural operations and/or raising of livestock, meaning a landowner in an A1 parcel can keep livestock, alongside crop and nursery operations, without applying for a special use permit or a variance.

05, backs this up by defining AGRICULTURE broadly enough to include animal and poultry husbandry as part of the same category, alongside farming, dairying, and pasturage. 05 separately defines a CONFINED FEEDING OPERATION as any operation confining at least 300 cattle, 600 swine or sheep, or at least 30,000 fowl. Below those thresholds, ordinary livestock and poultry keeping on an A1 parcel does not need that special use. A1 parcels are also subject to the district's dimensional standards, including a 30-foot height cap on residential buildings and lot sizes starting at 40,000 square feet for lots without sanitary sewer service.