Lane County's Animal Services Code (Chapter 7) does not cap chickens or farm animals. Whether you can keep hens, roosters, goats, or cattle is a land-use question under the Lane Code zoning chapters (LC Ch. 16), which are permissive on rural, farm (EFU), and forest-zoned land.
The Animal Services Code (LC 7.005.005-7.005.170) regulates dogs, cats, dangerous/exotic animals, and nuisances - not poultry or livestock husbandry. Keeping chickens, roosters, goats, or cattle is governed by Lane County's Land Management / Zoning code (LC Chapter 16) under Oregon's statewide land-use system (ORS Ch. 215). Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) and rural-residential zones generally allow poultry and livestock by right, subject to setbacks; suburban and city land is more restrictive. Farming practices also enjoy Oregon right-to-farm protection: ORS 30.935 makes any local ordinance that declares a farm practice a nuisance or trespass invalid. Inside a city (Eugene, Springfield, Cottage Grove, Florence), that city's zoning controls.
No animal-chapter penalty for keeping fowl or livestock. Zoning-limit or setback violations are enforced by Lane County Land Management under LC Chapter 16; nuisance backstops apply to odor and animals at large.
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