Kane County's Animal Control Ordinance sets no numeric limit on chickens or livestock. Whether you may keep them, and how many, is governed by the Kane County Zoning Ordinance for unincorporated land, or by your city's zoning code inside a municipality.
The county Animal Control Ordinance regulates rabies, strays, dangerous dogs, and humane care, but does not cap poultry or livestock. Keeping chickens, goats, horses, or other livestock is a land-use question decided by the Kane County Zoning Ordinance (administered by the county Development Department) for unincorporated parcels, and by municipal zoning inside Aurora, Elgin, St. Charles, Geneva, Batavia, etc. Agricultural-zoned parcels generally permit livestock; residential zones often prohibit or limit it. The animal ordinance does touch livestock in narrow ways: it bars leghold traps near livestock (§ 40) and compensates owners for dogs that kill sheep, goats, cattle, horses, swine, or poultry (§ 20–21).
Zoning enforcement (not animal control) for keeping prohibited livestock; penalties set by the Kane County Zoning Ordinance or the relevant municipal code.
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