Keeping hens · National rules

Can you keep backyard chickens in Chile?

Registration: conditions apply, for the keepers covered below. What we found on bird flu, welfare and the keeping rule follows, including what we couldn't establish.

Read from 7 official sources26 passages quotedChecked October 28, 2026

At a glance

Registering your flock

Conditions apply

National keeping rule

Rule with conditions

Bird-flu housing orders

Status needs rechecking

Welfare rules

Rule identified

A sourced reading of national law in Chile, not legal advice. Local ordinances and zoning, HOA rules, and any local rooster or coop limits aren't covered here yet: check your local code before you get hens.

Keeping your flock

These findings cover the national scope stated below. They do not determine whether chickens are allowed at a particular home. City zoning, property restrictions and other local rules are outside this research.

Registering as a poultry keeper

Conditions apply to this finding

Jurisdiction: Chile

Applies to: Holders of backyard birds kept at a home or premises for home consumption or occasional sale, under SAG's backyard biosecurity manual (Res. Ex. 7.695/2024), which SAG's list of norms marks as in force.

Outside this finding's scope

  • Res. Ex. 7.695/2024 takes effect once published in the Diario Oficial; that publication was not verified.

What the checked sources say

  • Have the home or premises registered with SAG (Rol Único Pecuario, RUP).
  • Keep the animal stock declaration up to date and follow the traceability rules in force.
  • SAG may, for sanitary reasons, register and assign a RUP to any establishment it needs to identify.

Thresholds

  • No flock-size threshold was quoted; a livestock establishment is any place where live animals are present.

Authority: Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG)

Fee: Not established from the sources checked.

The official wording

Bird-flu housing orders

Current status needs rechecking

Check the official current-status page

Orders can change between checks. A missed check or an expired order does not establish that no order applies.

Housing-order finding as checked on 2026-11-08

The scope and conditions below are a dated record, not confirmation of today's position.

No rule identified in this research

This does not establish that no authority can order poultry to be housed or confined.

Uses housing orders in this scope: Not established from the sources checked.

Jurisdiction: Chile

Applies to: SAG's power to set disease-control measures for owners and keepers of animals.

Outside this finding's scope

  • No standing national order to house backyard birds was identified; this does not establish that none exists.

What the checked sources say

  • Owners and keepers must prevent and fight animal diseases with the treatments and measures, and within the periods, that SAG determines.
  • The measures include isolation, closing properties while contagion risk lasts, and declaring infected zones with rules on transit.
  • Resolutions ordering sanitary measures take effect on publication in the Diario Oficial or on a later date they set.
  • Separately, SAG's backyard manual (Res. Ex. 7.695/2024), which SAG lists as in force, requires a henhouse that allows the birds to be isolated if necessary.
  • SAG's page advises keeping birds in a protected place, isolated from animals, people and wild birds; that is advice, not an order.
  • Current status is not shown here; check SAG's avian influenza page.
Checked
Recheck due

Historical evidence, as checked

These quotations record what was checked on the dates shown. They do not confirm an order's current status.

  • Artículo 6° El dueño o tenedor de animales atacados de las enfermedades contagiosas que determine el Reglamento o que ofrezcan sospechas de estarlo, denunciará inmediatamente el hecho al Gobernador del Departamento y al Jefe del Departamento de Ganadería de la Dirección de Agricultura y Pesca, debiendo mantenerse aislados los animales hasta que dichas autoridades adopten las medidas que estimen convenientes.

    DFL RRA 16/1963, Art. 6 · Checked

  • Artículo 8° Los propietarios o tenedores de animales tienen la obligación de prevenir y combatir las enfermedades con los tratamientos, las medidas y en los plazos que determine el Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero.

    DFL RRA 16/1963, Art. 8, first sentence · Checked

  • Artículo 9° Las medidas a que se refiere el artículo anterior serán las siguientes: Inyecciones reveladoras, aislamientos, secuestro, vacunaciones preventivas, desinfección de caballerizas, establos y elementos de transporte; clausura de las propiedades mientras exista el peligro de contagio;

    DFL RRA 16/1963, Art. 9 (opening words) · Checked

  • declaración de una o más zonas afectadas de infección y reglamentación del tránsito de las mismas zonas, y sacrificios de animales enfermos.

    DFL RRA 16/1963, Art. 9 (closing words) · Checked

  • Dichas resoluciones entrarán en vigencia desde que sean publicadas en el "Diario Oficial" o desde la fecha posterior que en la misma resolución se determine.

    DFL RRA 16/1963, Art. 8, last paragraph · Checked

  • Contar con un gallinero en su domicilio, que permita el aislamiento de las aves en caso de ser necesario. El gallinero debe impedir el ingreso de otras aves o animales ajenos al domicilio.

    Res. Ex. SAG 7.695/2024, backyard manual §4 (Responsabilidades del titular) · Checked

  • Mantenga a sus aves en un lugar protegido, aislado de animales, personas y aves silvestres.

    SAG 'Influenza Aviar (IA)' page, 'Cómo prevenir la enfermedad en sus aves' · Checked

  • Denuncia aves enfermas o muertas a:

    SAG 'Influenza Aviar (IA)' page, top · Checked

Small-flock welfare minimums

Rule identified for the scope below

Jurisdiction: Chile

Applies to: Anyone who has an animal, under any title.

What the checked sources say

  • Care for the animal and give it adequate food and shelter, at least according to the minimum needs of its species and category.

The official wording

  • Artículo 3°.- Toda persona que, a cualquier título, tenga un animal, debe cuidarlo y proporcionarle alimento y albergue adecuados, de acuerdo, al menos, a las necesidades mínimas de cada especie y categoría y a los antecedentes aportados por la ciencia y la experiencia.

    Ley 20.380, Art. 3, first sentence · Checked

  • Artículo 1°.- Esta ley establece normas destinadas a conocer, proteger y respetar a los animales, como seres vivos y parte de la naturaleza, con el fin de darles un trato adecuado y evitarles sufrimientos innecesarios.

    Ley 20.380, Art. 1, first sentence · Checked

National rules on keeping poultry

Conditions apply to this finding

Jurisdiction: Chile

Applies to: Homes or premises with backyard birds kept for home consumption or occasional sale (SAG backyard biosecurity manual, Res. Ex. 7.695/2024, which SAG lists as in force; its Diario Oficial publication was not verified).

Outside this finding's scope

  • Local rules on keeping chickens were not researched; municipalities plan and regulate their commune and issue binding ordinances.

What the checked sources say

  • Have a henhouse that allows the birds to be isolated if necessary and keeps out other birds and outside animals (the keep-out measure is enforceable from the second half of 2025).
  • Keep any newly arrived bird isolated from the other birds for 14 days.
  • Have the home or premises registered with SAG (RUP).

The official wording

Selling eggs in Chile? →License, small-flock line, markets and cartons, on their own page.Selling: License: not stated

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Common questions

Do I have to register backyard chickens in Chile?
Registration: conditions apply. The finding covers: Holders of backyard birds kept at a home or premises for home consumption or occasional sale, under SAG's backyard biosecurity manual (Res. Ex. 7.695/2024), which SAG's list of norms marks as in force. No flock-size threshold was quoted; a livestock establishment is any place where live animals are present. Outside this finding's scope: Res. Ex. 7.695/2024 takes effect once published in the Diario Oficial; that publication was not verified. Authority: Servicio Agrícola y Ganadero (SAG).
Can I keep chickens in my backyard in Chile?
The national sources we read set the limits shown under “National rules on keeping poultry” on this page, and don't settle the rest. Check your local rules before you get hens.
Do I have to keep my hens indoors for bird flu in Chile?
Housing orders come and go, so we never show one as current. This page links the official status page to check today.

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