Lane County's Animal Services Code does not set livestock-keeping limits; horses, cattle, sheep, and goats are a zoning question under Lane Code Chapter 16. Loose livestock is governed by Oregon's livestock-district law (ORS Ch. 607), and farm practices are protected by right-to-farm ORS 30.935.
The Animal Services Code (LC Ch. 7) defines "livestock" broadly - cattle, sheep, horses, goats, swine, fowl, poultry, and furbearing animals - but the code centers on dogs, cats, and exotic/dangerous animals rather than farm-animal husbandry. Whether you may keep livestock is set by your parcel's zoning under Lane Code Chapter 16 (Oregon statewide land-use, ORS Ch. 215); Exclusive Farm Use and rural-residential land generally permits livestock by right. Loose stock is a state matter: ORS 607.045 makes it unlawful to permit livestock to run at large in a designated livestock district, with owner liability. Oregon's right-to-farm law (ORS 30.935) invalidates local ordinances that would treat lawful livestock farming as a nuisance.
Zoning violations (unpermitted livestock, setbacks) are enforced by Lane County Land Management under LC Ch. 16. Livestock running at large in a livestock district is unlawful under ORS 607.045, with owner liability.
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