Chickens are legally allowed within city limits already.

However, the 125-ft coop setback limits most residents ability to have backyard chickens. Reducing the coop setback & regulating chicken numbers, coop cleanliness, and prohibiting roosters makes sense.
- Sec. 14.85 & 14.84 Brookings City Ordinances

Brookings Chicken Advocates & Dakota Rural Action

Brookings, South Dakota

Chickens are a dual purpose animalraised for profit or treated like pets. Hens are small, harmless, friendly, entertaining and easy to care for6 hens arent livestock any more than a vegetable garden is a farm.

Partnership between Brookings Chicken Advocates and Dakota Rural Action: DRA is a grassroots family agriculture and conservation membership-based group that organizes South Dakotans to protect our family farmers and ranchers, natural resources, and unique way of life. The DRA BrookSmall flock of backyard hens ings County Chapter is our ally in the People are interested in living a more sustainable campaign to revise current regulations. DRA provides a community organization and 26 years of experience to the cause. For more information visit dakotarural.org or call 605-697-5204. Backyard chickens are a community building asset. Please support BCA and DRA!

Backyard Chickens

lifestyle and reducing their carbon footprint. Local governments encourage citizens to reduce their consumption of resources, use fewer pesticides, & be more self-reliant. A small number of hens allows us the opportunity to do just that. Political obstacles should not impeded the very same lifestyle local government promotes.

Brookings Chicken Advocates and Dakota Rural Action have teamed up to form a collaboration to promote backyard chickens within the city of Brookings, SD. Chickens strengthen our community by localizing food, aiding urban gardening, and educating families.

People in the city who keep chickens as

pets keep them in attractive enclosures they are proud of. Many chicken-friendly cities hold annual coop tours to show them off, as well as offer educational opportunities for the community.

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People are more concerned about the economy, the environment, food safety, emergency preparedness, and animal welfare, theyre returning to the basics vegetable gardening, canning, & raising chickens.

Brookings Chicken Advocates

Brookings, South Dakota
We're proud partners with Dakota Rural Action and their Brookings County Chapter. BCA stands in support of revising the city of Brookings, South Dakota's current chicken/fowl ordinance and zoning definitions to allow for the ownership of chickens within city limits under the following

In addition, BCA supports:

Offering educational materials on how to raise backyard

chickens, how to care for their coops, and tips for proper handling methods workshops

Offering ongoing chicken education

Offering coop tours (similar to the annual

Tour de Coop held in Sioux Falls) that chicken owners can participate in to ask for assistance, tips, or housing opportunities in the event that they can no longer raise their birds

Establish a network

Limit 6-hens per residence No roosters 25-foot minimum coops setback from neighboring dwelling Coops No chickens roaming at-large Regulate backyard chickens through the Animal Ordinance
dog houses and kennels) Amend zoning definition of 'Agriculture' to exclude flocks of 6 or more as agricultural use must be temporary structures with enclosed runs (similar to

terms:

All nuisance issues

Sharing the responsibility

Public officials in cities where backyard chickens have been permitted for years, view it as a beneficial, communitybuilding & self-sustaining activity that they promote and encourage!

should be covered under current rules and regulations Americana Chick pertaining to animal nuisance

Over 65% of major U.S. cities now have chicken keeping ordinances.
A few South Dakota chicken-friendly cities: Sioux Falls, White, Bruce, Wasta, & Flandreau. Communities activity engaging their city to amend their ordinances: Brookings, Rapid City, Pierre, & Volga, SD