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

040(F)(3)(b) permits poultry on lots under 20,000 square feet, but roosters are named and prohibited outright, distinguishing Orange's rule from a blanket poultry ban. Hens count toward the combined six-animal cap shared with rabbits, reptiles, rodents and other small animals under five pounds, and their coop must sit at least 20 feet from any neighboring occupied home. Subsection (F)(6) then draws a hard line against commercial-scale operations regardless of zone: commercial dairies, commercial kennels, rabbit/fox/goat and other animal-raising farms, farms devoted to hatching, raising, fattening or butchering poultry or to commercial egg production, livestock-feeding ranches, and any ranch used for garbage, sewage, rubbish or offal disposal are all barred as animal-keeping uses.

Larger livestock, equine, bovine, sheep, goats and swine, are confined to single-family lots zoned R1-20 or greater with at least 20,000 square feet per dwelling unit under subsection (F)(4): up to two adult animals in any combination on the first 20,000 square feet, one more per additional 10,000 square feet, capped at six adults total, kept a minimum of 50 feet from any neighbor's home and 20 feet from any property line, and never in the required front yard.