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Small Animals - rabbits and chinchillas.
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Fish
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Poultry is the category of domesticated birds generally raised for meat, eggs, and feathers. However some poultry, like peacocks and swans are also raised for oriental purposes. Examples of poultry include chickens, ducks, goose, peacocks, swans, turkeys as well as game birds like Pheasants, and meat birds like pigeon and doves. They also include ostriches and emus as well as quails
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Livestock is a term that can be narrowly or broadly defined but generally refer to a domesticated animal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to make produce such as food, fur or fibre, or for their labour Animal husbandry, also called animal science, stockbreeding or simple husbandry, is the agricultural practice of breeding and raising livestock. Animal include Horse; cattle and buffalo; alpacas and llamas; sheep and goats; and hog.
Our farm operation is govern by specific use regulations for "animal keeping" in Chapter 84.04 of the Title 8 of the County of San Bernardino Code (Development Code) and the animal densities and maximum for our zoning that are found in Table 84-3 - Animal Keeping Allowed as Primary Use. We are in full compliance with these rules. We are also in compliance (a) the manure management guidelines for proper manure management Title 3 of the County Code. (Health and Sanitation and Animal Regulations) (b) all the desert plant protection ordinances, (c) regulations regarding use of shipping containers on agricultural properties, (d) night sky ordinances, (e) all required building permits, and (f) our road system complies with all the requirements regarding fire and wildfire access.
We keep our operation at levels such that a minor use permits or conditional use permits are not required. The levels below are specific to our ranch and do not apply to properties where animal raising in not a primary land use or to smaller parcels where agriculture in not the primary use. Fish raising, while technically an animal, is handled in a different section of if this site.
Our current ranch operation plan allocates 7 acres to animal raising activities (excluding fish) as can be seen in the table below.