Hidalgo County has no published backyard-chicken permit or poultry cap for unincorporated areas. Keeping poultry and farm animals is governed by state stock-law and estray provisions in the Texas Agriculture Code, and whether livestock may roam depends on the county's range status.
The county has no backyard-chicken permit or flock limit for unincorporated areas; its animal function centers on rabies control and stray dogs and cats. Keeping chickens and livestock is instead shaped by Texas law. Under Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 143, a county may hold an election to adopt a stock law restricting horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, or goats from running at large; where one is in force, owners must fence those animals. Loose or abandoned livestock is handled as an 'estray' under Agriculture Code Chapter 142, letting the sheriff impound animals running at large on roads or another's land. A Commissioners Court order also bars roadside sales of non-livestock animals in the unincorporated county but does not prohibit livestock sales.
Allowing covered livestock to run at large where a stock law applies, or leaving animals as estrays on roads or others' land, lets the sheriff impound them under Agriculture Code Chapter 142. Poultry disputes are zoning matters.
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