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

010 of the municipal code sets by-right standards for keeping poultry and livestock without a conditional use permit. Poultry must be fully contained: parcels over one acre may keep 50 birds per acre, parcels under one acre are capped at 12 birds, and lots zoned Light Manufacturing (LM) or Manufacturing (M) are capped at just 4 poultry regardless of size. Footnote 5 states that the keeping of roosters or crowing fowl, of any species, is prohibited within the city on every parcel, and footnote 4 bars concentrated lot feeding and any commercial poultry or rabbit raising citywide.

5-acre lot, allow two animals on the first half-acre and one additional animal per additional half-acre, and are barred from Light Manufacturing, Hillside Residential, Hillside Residential-Sensitive, and Open Space-Conservation zones. 5-acre minimum but allow two animals on the first half-acre and three more per additional half-acre. All large- and small-animal keeping requires a 25-foot setback from the property line of any adjacent residence, day care, school, hospital, or church, and poultry and outdoor aviary birds carry the same 25-foot separation. Only animals above a minimum age count toward the limit: three months for poultry and aviary birds, six months for small animals, and twelve months for large animals. A grazing exception allows unlimited sheep for weed abatement on fields for up to four weeks in any six-month period.