Huntington Park, CA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

Section 5-11.13 of the Huntington Park Municipal Code, titled Animal yards and manure, is the City's keeping standard for backyard poultry and livestock. It has two operative parts. Subsection (a) makes it a public nuisance and unlawful to keep, or permit to be kept, on premises you own or control any poultry or chicken coop, rabbitry, yard, cow house, stable, stock shed, vault, drain, pool, sewer, or sink in a foul, offensive, noxious, or filthy condition. Subsection (b) sets the cleaning clock: anyone keeping poultry, rabbits, livestock, or animals in the City must cause the manure or droppings to be completely removed from the premises, or covered with earth so they are free from noxious odors, at least once every four days.

There is one exception to the four-day clock. Manure can be used on the premises for fertilizing as long as it is immediately worked into the soil. Anything that is not buried, hauled off, or worked in must go into fly-tight bins, set in a well-drained place at or near the rear of the premises under a rainproof roof.

Related sections in the same chapter fill in the rest of the picture. Section 5-11.14 makes it a public nuisance to scatter garbage, greens, or vegetable trimmings on poultry or animal feeding lots. Section 5-11.15 bars butchering any sheep, calf, hog, horse, or other animal on a lot, premises, street, or alley, and exempts poultry and rabbits from that ban. Section 5-11.11 lists a livestock feed yard among the offensive industries declared a public nuisance. Licensing, impounding, and regulation of animals more broadly run through § 6-1.101, which adopts Title 10 of the Los Angeles County Code by reference, with any conflicting city amendment controlling.

Section 5-11.13 sets care and sanitation standards only. It contains no list of zoning districts and no cap on the number of birds.