Glendale, CA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

Municipal Code § 6.04.030 bars keeping any wild or domestic animal other than cats, dogs, canaries or psittacine birds (parrots and relatives), or more than two total of any combination of rabbits, non-rooster chickens, ducks or pigeons, within 50 feet of any residence, dwelling or building used for human habitation, or within 150 feet of a school, hospital or similar institution; horses kept under Title 30's zoning rules are exempted. Section 6.04.050(A) sets a broader cap: no more than 12 rabbits, hares, chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, pigeons or pheasants in any combination within 300 feet of a residence other than the keeper's own, with live poultry, rabbit and bird sales exempted; subsection B excludes rabbits and hares under 60 days old from that 12-animal count.

Section 6.04.040 separately requires that any rabbit, hare, chicken (other than a rooster), turkey, goose, duck, pigeon, pheasant or other fowl be kept in a "flyproof pen," defined as a structure that keeps out bees, moths and flies and has a solid floor that prevents waste from accumulating on the ground. Roosters cannot be kept near dwellings at all under § 6.04.030's structure, since the two-animal exception excludes them by name, and § 6.04.130(D) permits "all birds and fowl except roosters, guinea fowl, peafowl" as keepable animals citywide. Manure from any kept fowl or livestock must be covered daily in a flytight bin or buried, per § 6.04.060, and can't be stored within 100 feet of a school, church or hospital, or within 35 feet of any dwelling window or door, under § 6.04.080.