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Can I have chickens in Beaumont, TX?
Yes
Backyard hens are allowed here
These are the City of Beaumont’s own rules, and they apply inside the city limits.
If your address is outside the city limits — a Beaumontmailing address on unincorporated county land is common — your county’s code governs instead, and it may reach a different answer, particularly about roosters. We have researched the unincorporated county land surrounding Beaumont— see the section below. Check your parcel’s jurisdiction to know which of the two applies to you.
Inside Beaumont city limits — residential zoning
Outside the city limits? See the unincorporated county land surrounding Beaumont ↓
- Hen limit
- Not specified
- Roosters
- Not specified
- Permit
- Not required
- Setback
- Not specified
Coop rules: Chickens/fowl must be kept entirely within an enclosed building designed to retain noise and odor. General prohibition on keeping livestock/fowl within city limits applies UNLESS this enclosure condition (or applicable acreage minimum for other animal types — e.g. horses 1 acre min, bovine 1/2 acre min) is met. An area/square-footage-per-animal requirement also applies (partial figure found: something around 3,000 sq ft threshold referenced in the ordinance — needs one more pass to confirm the exact number and which animal types it covers).
Governed by Beaumont, TX Code of Ordinances, Article 4.06 'Livestock, Fowl and Other Animals'. Beaumont sets no numeric hen cap; chickens fall under the code's 'fowl' definition rather than 'livestock', so the city's general livestock prohibition does not reach them. Texas has no statewide hen-count guarantee, so Beaumont's own enclosure and confinement rules are the operative limits.
This is general information compiled from public ordinances, not legal advice. Rules change — confirm with the source and your local authority before keeping birds.
Outside the city limits — the unincorporated county land surrounding Beaumont
Different jurisdiction — the unincorporated county land surrounding Beaumont, not the City of Beaumont. This applies only if your property is outside Beaumont city limits. A mailing address in Beaumont does not settle that — the city and the county boundary are different lines. Confirm your parcel’s jurisdiction before relying on it.
Texas counties have no general power to zone. A county may regulate only what the Legislature has specifically allowed it to regulate, and backyard poultry is not on that list — so outside a city's limits there is usually no county rule capping how many birds you may keep, and no county rule about roosters specifically. That is an absence of authority rather than a permission, and three other things can still reach you. A public nuisance can be abated in the unincorporated area, which is the provision most likely to apply to a crowing rooster, and it bites hardest near a platted subdivision or within 300 feet of one. A city can extend some regulation into the land just outside its limits. And a deed restriction or HOA covenant binds regardless of what any government allows. Confirm with your county before relying on this — several counties do hold narrower powers the Legislature granted them individually.
Check your HOA before you buy a single chick.
Even where local ordinance allows backyard chickens, a homeowners association or deed restriction can prohibit them entirely — and HOA rules override a city’s “yes.” Read your HOA’s covenants (CC&Rs) in addition to the city/county rules on this page.
Poultry sellers near Beaumont, TX
B. TUMBLEWEED CHICKENDOM
Highlands, TX, 77562
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