Salt Lake County, UT Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

The county code defines 'family food production' as keeping up to two cows, two sheep, two goats, twenty rabbits, fifty chickens, fifty pheasants, ten ducks, ten turkeys, ten geese and twenty pigeons, but no more than three of those kinds of animals or fowl may be on one lot at the same time. It's a permitted or conditional use only in zones that allow it, such as R-1-21, R-1-43 and the agricultural zones; horses and other family-food-production animals also require health department sign-off that the use won't cause erosion, water pollution or other environmental harm. This is unincorporated-area zoning only, Salt Lake City, West Jordan, Sandy and the valley's other cities set their own chicken/livestock rules.