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

120 of the Redding Municipal Code sets the placement standard for keeping chickens, geese, ducks, turkeys, pigeons, doves, squabs or similar fowl, plus gnawing mammals such as rabbits, guinea pigs, chinchillas, hamsters, rats and mice. The animals cannot be kept within forty feet of any dwelling house or structure used as a dwelling, unless that structure is occupied by the animal's own owner or keeper. They also cannot be kept within fifteen feet of any side or rear property line, except that a lot backing onto a public alley must instead keep fifteen feet from its side lines, or within fifty feet of the front property line.

140 of the Redding Zoning Ordinance wherever that ordinance separately regulates the type, number or conditions for keeping specific animals, so a zoning-district standard can impose additional limits on top of these setbacks. 130 adds an outright ban rather than a setback: no rooster over three months old may be kept anywhere in the city, and peafowl (peacocks) and guinea fowl are prohibited entirely regardless of age or distance from property lines. 140 separately caps exotic birds such as parakeets, parrots, cockatiels and cockatoos at no more than twenty-five in an outside cage, and bars keeping them within thirty-five feet of another person's residence.