Glendale Chickens & Livestock Rules (2026): What You Need to Know

Glendale Municipal Code Title 6, Chapter 6.04 regulates the keeping of animals in residential areas. No person may keep any animal other than cats, dogs, canaries, or birds of the psittacinae family (parrots), or a combined total of no more than two of any combination of rabbits, chickens (other than roosters), ducks, or pigeons within 50 feet of any neighboring residence. This limit allows residents to keep a small number of backyard chickens (hens only) without roosters.

For properties with greater separation from neighbors, no person may keep or maintain more than 12 rabbits, hares, chickens, turkeys, geese, ducks, pigeons, or pheasants (or any combination) within 300 feet of any residence or dwelling house other than that occupied by the keeper. Rabbits or hares under 60 days of age are not counted toward this limit. The live sale of poultry, rabbits, canaries, or psittacinae birds is exempt from these restrictions.

Strict sanitary requirements apply. No person may keep any animal enclosure (yard, coop, building, pen, hutch, kennel) in an unsanitary condition. Manure may not remain on any premises longer than one day unless kept in a covered bin made of sound metal, brick, stone, concrete, or wood lined with flytight materials, or buried in the ground and covered to prevent the attraction or breeding of flies or insects. Violations of Title 6 (Animals) are generally infractions, though certain provisions carry misdemeanor penalties.