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Casper staff propose expanding allowed domestic fowl to include quail and doves; peacocks, turkeys excluded
Summary
City Attorney and animal-control staff presented redlined ordinance language to let residents keep domesticated fowl beyond chickens (for example quail and doves) with a six-bird cap and exclusions for peacocks, turkeys and ducks; staff will return with an ordinance for initial reading and the three-reading process.
City Attorney Eric Nelson and Metro animal-control staff told Casper City Council on Wednesday they have drafted redlined ordinance language to broaden the definition of permitted domesticated fowl in city limits.
The change grew out of a municipal-court case and repeated public inquiries about whether quail and other small non-game birds could be kept inside city limits. Nelson said staff examined Wyoming Game and Fish lists and the Wyoming Livestock Board's classifications and…
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