Lubbock, TX Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

001(a) bars keeping livestock anywhere in the city except as the section and the zoning ordinance allow, and subsection (b) permits up to six chicken hens on an R-1, R-1A, or R-2 zoned residence as an accessory use to the main structure. The enclosure must stay confined so the hens cannot run at large, must be located in the rear yard, and if it is under 200 square feet it needs only a five-foot setback from a side or rear property line; an enclosure larger than 200 square feet must instead meet every setback in chapter 40 of the zoning code.

The enclosure must be sized and maintained for good sanitation with adequate drainage, litter and droppings must be collected daily into a closed, rat-proof and fly-tight container and disposed of at least once a day, and feed must be kept in a rodent- and wildlife-proof, fly-tight receptacle. Roosters are not permitted under any circumstance. Keeping hens in a way that is injurious to neighbors or interferes with their use of their property through dust, smoke, odor, glare, noise, vibration or trash amounts to a public nuisance at common law.

204(11), and follow every subsection-(b) condition once the permit issues. 002, which limits their keeping to Texas Tech University, Lubbock Christian University, the Monterey High School Ag Farm, and the Panhandle South Plains Fairgrounds during exhibition.