Lee County's animal ordinance defines livestock (including domesticated poultry) but does not itself permit or ban backyard chickens or roosters. Whether you may keep them depends on your zoning district; contact the Lee County Community Development Department to confirm your parcel's rules.
Ordinance 14-22 adopts the Florida Statutes definition of livestock, which includes domesticated poultry, but the animal-control ordinance regulates cruelty, restraint, and dangerous animals rather than agricultural zoning. Keeping chickens or roosters in unincorporated Lee County is governed by the Lee County Land Development Code and the parcel's zoning district. Agricultural and estate zoning generally allows poultry; standard residential lots often do not, and roosters in particular can trigger the noise/nuisance-animal provisions. Verify allowances for your specific address with the Community Development Department before keeping fowl.
Zoning violations are enforced by Lee County Code Enforcement; nuisance fowl (e.g., a crowing rooster) may also be cited as a nuisance animal under the animal ordinance. Fines are set by BOCC resolution.
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