You lot tin can proceed upwards to four chickens in backyard coops. To keep chickens, yous need to apply for a let and pay a $50 fee.

Apply for a allow

On this page:

  1. Employ for a let
  2. Chicken coop regulations
  3. Neighbour consent
  4. Creature bylaw

Apply for a allow

Before you go on chickens in your backyard, yous must:

  • use for a allow
  • pay a $50 registration fee
  • have your property inspected by staff

The holding inspection is to bank check the altitude of your craven coop from the property line and to ensure other regulations are met.

Craven coop regulations

Chicken coops must exist:

  • 2.5m abroad from side one thousand lot lines
  • 1.2m abroad from rear lot lines

If at that place is not enough room for the distances listed above, you must get consent from your neighbours.

Utilise the accordions below to observe further regulations on backyard chicken coops.

Backyard craven regulations
  • Maximum of 4 chickens
  • No Roosters
  • Sales of eggs, manure and other products associated with the keeping of chickens are not allowed
  • Habitation slaughter of chickens is non allowed
  • An application must exist submitted to the Urban center prior to obtaining chickens a one-fourth dimension fee of $l to cover the cost of processing the awarding and the Officer's fourth dimension inspecting the belongings to ensure compliance
  • Inspection of the property must occur prior to approval for chickens to ensure setbacks and proper construction of coop
  • Chickens must be kept in an enclosed run when not in their coop
  • Chickens must be contained on owners belongings at all times
  • Chickens must be banded with owner contact information
  • Owner of chickens must reside on the property where they are kept
  • Rental backdrop – written permission from the owner must exist obtained
  • All other past-laws will still utilise, for example, noise, animal regulations, lot maintenance, property standards.
Setback regulations
  • i.2m from rear lot line
  • 2.5m from a side lot line
  • 2.5m from a rear lot line abutting a side m
  • Chicken coops are not permitted in a front end yard
  • Existing sheds/garages tin can be used for the hen house, merely the portion actually used to house hens shall exist required to meet the setback requirements.
  • Runs and exterior portions of the coop must meet the setback regulations
  • Multi-residential properties such as apartments are not permitted to have chickens
  • If the two.5m setback cannot be achieved, written permission shall be supplied to By-constabulary Enforcement past all owners and all adult occupants of the bordering holding, the placement of the coop will be permitted based on written consent.
  • An possessor or developed occupant of an adjoining property may withdraw consent to the placement of a hen coop or run that is closer to their property than the required 2.5m setback, if they notify the City in writing.  The owner volition take to remove or relocate the coop within a permitted area by the later of November 1 of that calendar year or six (6) months following the appointment of notification being given.
Coop regulations and sanitation

Structure

  • Coop must provide protection from weather and be adequately ventilated
  • The enclosed coop and run shall be constructed and maintained in a manner to exclude rodents and predators from entry
  • When chicken wire is used every bit part of or all of the run enclosure, the openings of the chicken wire shall non be larger than a half inch
  • The craven wire should also be buried into the ground surrounding the coop/run at a minimum of 6 inches to help forestall rodents from burrowing into the run surface area

Interior

  • The floor must be constructed of a cloth that is resistant to moisture, mould, retain heat in the common cold weather and exclude rodents and predators
  • The floors must be lined with shavings, straw or other appropriate materials to absorb manure and facilitate cleaning
  • Chicken boxes and a perch must be provided to arrange all hens
  • Dust bath area must exist provided (helps control mites)

Cleaning

  • The coop must exist maintained in a clean condition and shall be kept free of odours
  • The coop must be deep cleaned 2- 3 times a twelvemonth which includes disinfecting of troughs, perches and nests
  • Manure must be cleaned out daily and stored in a secured container or composter in accordance with compost regulations

Nutrient and water

  • Feeders and water containers must exist provided, cleaned regularly and disinfected
  • Feed must exist stored in rodent proof containers and secured at all times to prevent rodents and other animals from accessing it

Deceased chickens

  • Deceased chickens must be disposed of at a livestock disposal facility or through the services of a veterinarian, or through a facility as canonical past the Ministry of Agriculture Food and Rural Diplomacy

Neighbour consent

If your property does not take enough room for a two.5 metre distance from your property line, you need to ask your neighbours to consent to the chicken coop.

Print off our neighbour consent form and get the signatures of your firsthand neighbours (with whom yous share a belongings line). Return the form to bylaw enforcement staff by email.

Download the neighbour consent form

Animal bylaw

Review our total animal bylaw to larn more virtually backyard chickens.