Lynwood, CA Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

The fowl ban in 8-1.14(b) targets larger domestic birds raised for meat or eggs, roosters, chickens, geese, pigeons, ducks, turkeys, guinea fowl, peafowl, and other game birds, and bars them citywide regardless of lot size or zoning. It exempts only a city-licensed poultry-processing business, a licensed veterinary hospital, animal clinic, or public exhibition area holding its own city permit, and small companion birds such as budgies, canaries, cockatiels, finches, lovebirds, macaws, parakeets, and parrots, which instead fall under the household pet-count limits in section 8-1.11.

Section 8-1.15 separately bans all livestock, including horses, mules, donkeys, goats, sheep, hogs, bulls, oxen, and cows, citywide, overlapping with the hog and pig ban already written into 8-1.14(c). Both sections share the same two narrow exceptions: animals brought in temporarily for an authorized parade or public exhibition, and animals kept on Lynwood Unified School District property as part of a school animal-education program. Neither section offers a residential-agriculture or hobby-farm permit path. SEAACA and the city's animal control officer enforce both bans, and because neither section states its own penalty, a violation of either defaults to the misdemeanor described in section 1-5, punishable by up to $1,000 in fines, up to six months in the Los Angeles County jail, or both.