Murfreesboro, TN Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

City Code § 5-1 bars owners of chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys or other domestic fowl from letting them run at large or trespass on a neighbor's property inside Murfreesboro: the birds must stay enclosed or confined. Roosters get a separate, stricter rule: it is unlawful to own, house, or maintain a rooster within City limits at all, unless the rooster is penned or housed at least 2,000 feet from the nearest residence, measured by the most direct route from the pen to that residence. In practice that distance rules roosters out of nearly every residential lot in the city.