Springfield, OR Animal Ordinances: Chickens & Livestock (2026)

Article 2 of Chapter 5's Article XI sets a lot-size sliding scale for every farm animal category, and Section 5.406 requires that farm animals of any kind, fowl and poultry included, sit only on property zoned Low Density Residential (LDR) and that the keeper live on or immediately adjacent to that property. Section 5.408 caps permitted young at three times the number of adult birds allowed on the lot, so a property qualifying for four adult hens can also host up to twelve chicks before it is over its limit, and it flatly bans keeping a rooster once it passes six months old regardless of lot size.

Larger livestock is governed separately by Section 5.414: one horse, cow, llama, sheep or goat needs 20,000 square feet, and each additional animal adds another 20,000 square feet, and at least 75 percent of the lot must remain accessible to the animal without violating the required yard setbacks. Section 5.424 requires that any structure housing farm animals, including a chicken coop or horse shelter, sit at least 40 feet from the front property line and 20 feet from interior property lines, with proper caging, sanitation and rodent-proof feed storage.

The same section gives the city and Lane County Animal Services the right to inspect premises where farm animals are kept and to order deficiencies corrected before the city declares the property a nuisance and abates it. Rabbits get an identical lot-size scale to fowl and poultry under the parallel Section 5.410.