Los Banos, CA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

201 defines "household pets" to specifically exclude horses, cows, goats, sheep, other equine, bovine, ovine or ruminant animals, pigs, predatory wild animals, chickens, roosters, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons, and small exotic fowl or game birds that normally constitute an agricultural use; it adds that approval for ducks, geese, chickens, pigeons or small exotic fowl as household pets requires use permit approval. 1815, "Animals: Prohibited within City limits," backs that up citywide: it is unlawful and a public nuisance to keep any horse, cow, goat, sheep, other equine, bovine, ovine or ruminant animal, pig, or predatory wild animal within the City (with a narrow exception for animals brought in temporarily for a licensed parade, exhibition or auction), any turkey, game bird or other agricultural-use domestic fowl, or any duck, pigeon, goose, chicken or small exotic fowl unless approved by use permit.

603(f) confirms the mechanism: ducks, pigeons, geese and chickens kept as household pets or as 4-H or FFA animal projects are a use permitted subject to securing a use permit, in a number the Planning Commission deems appropriate for the lot. 1814 separately makes it unlawful to keep any animal, even a permitted one, in a manner injurious to health, offensive to the senses, or that interferes with a neighbor's comfortable enjoyment of their property, and treats such a condition as a public nuisance abatable by the City after written notice from a health officer, the District Attorney, City Attorney or a Code Enforcement Officer.