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Board OKs allowing small numbers of hens and ducks on lots under an acre; BMPs to guide larger rural stocking
Summary
Commissioners voted to permit up to 10 hens or ducks on parcels under one acre and asked staff to adopt best-management stocking rates for larger rural properties and to return with ordinance language.
The Board of County Commissioners voted June 3 to allow residents on lots under one acre to keep up to 10 laying hens or ducks without a special permit, and to apply best‑management practice (BMP) stocking rates for parcels of one acre or larger.
Planner Angeline Jacobs reviewed the county’s current poultry rules and a comparison of how surrounding counties treat urban poultry. County code previously allowed six hens on parcels less than five acres…
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