{
 "answer": "In the City of Edmundston, New Brunswick, backyard hens & livestock rules are set by Arrêté municipal 33R2024 / Municipal By-law 33R2024 -- Arrêté de zonage d'Edmundston / Edmundston Zoning By-law, verified 2026-09-27. Livestock rule: New residential use must respect reciprocity distance from existing agricultural livestock use; minimum distance between main buildings: 150 m.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-003064",
 "municipality": "Edmundston",
 "status_type": "City",
 "jurisdiction": "New Brunswick",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "backyard_animals",
 "label": "Backyard hens & livestock",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-09-27",
 "official_website": "https://edmundston.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Arrêté municipal 33R2024 / Municipal By-law 33R2024 -- Arrêté de zonage d'Edmundston / Edmundston Zoning By-law",
   "category": "backyard_animals",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2024-06-18",
   "document_url": "https://edmundston.ca/download_file/4005/1905",
   "summary": "Section on 'Urban chicken coops' authorizes them only on single-family detached lots: max 6 hens, roosters prohibited, no selling eggs/meat or slaughtering on-site, manure removed or composted regularly, and a fully enclosed, roofed coop connected to a chicken run required.",
   "discovered_by": "nb-newcats",
   "discovered_at": "2026-09-27",
   "capture_sha256": "fd47d93a1bbee40a5ebcb61d529c8e659ca57bfc9d24096c2d31275170a53d0e",
   "captured_at": "2026-09-28T01:03:51+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "document_number": "33R2024",
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/fd47d93a1bbee40a5ebcb61d529c8e659ca57bfc9d24096c2d31275170a53d0e.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "livestock_rule": "New residential use must respect reciprocity distance from existing agricultural livestock use; minimum distance between main buildings: 150 m."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "livestock_rule": "s. 4.1(3)(b)"
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/nb/edmundston/backyard-hens/bylaw-33r2024/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/nb/edmundston/backyard-hens/"
}