Wheat Ridge council discusses animal code changes; agrees limits for roosters, bans swine and clarifies several rules

Sep 16, 2025

Wheat Ridge City Council members reviewed a package of animal-code updates after heavy public comment on rooster noise and reached consensuses to allow one rooster per residence (three on properties of at least one acre), prohibit swine, consolidate definitions and reject an exemption for rehabilitated fighting animals.

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Wheat Ridge City Council members spent much of the study session reviewing a comprehensive set of proposed changes to Chapter 4 of the municipal code that covers animals, and they reached several consensuses after extended public comment focused on a single nuisance rooster in a Moore Court neighborhood.

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