Keeping hens · National rules

Can you keep backyard chickens in Jordan?

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 2 official sources23 passages quotedChecked October 29, 2026

At a glance

Registering your flock

Conditions apply

National keeping rule

Rule identified

Bird-flu housing orders

Status needs rechecking

Welfare rules

Not established

A sourced reading of national law in Jordan, 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: Jordan

Applies to: Anyone holding or operating a unit for animal production (Instructions No. 6/Z of 2024, Art. 3); an animal agricultural holding is a unit of agricultural production under one management used wholly or partly for animal production (Art. 2).

Outside this finding's scope

  • Whether a household flock kept only for its own eggs counts as a unit for animal production was not established.
  • Livestock-farm licensing under Agriculture Law Art. 42 is set by separate instructions that were not read.

What the checked sources say

  • Registration with the Ministry of Agriculture's directorate concerned is compulsory from fifty poultry birds (chickens, quail, ducks or geese), and from one hundred pigeons or ornamental birds (Art. 3).
  • Registration lasts one year and must be renewed yearly for the holder to keep receiving the Ministry's agricultural services (Art. 7).

Thresholds

  • Poultry (chickens, quail, ducks, geese): fifty birds
  • Pigeons or ornamental birds: one hundred birds

Authority: Ministry of Agriculture (agriculture directorate concerned)

Fee: Not established from the sources checked.

The official wording

Bird-flu housing orders

Current status needs rechecking

An official current-status link has not been established.

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.

Not established from the sources checked

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

Jurisdiction: Jordan

Applies to: Animals, which the Agriculture Law defines to include poultry, under the Minister of Agriculture's animal-health powers (Arts 2, 45 and 49).

Outside this finding's scope

  • No standing order to house birds was found; the instructions issued under Art. 45 were not read.
  • The Agriculture Law was read in the Ministry's consolidated copy ('and its amendments'), whose date was not established; later amendments were not checked.
  • This page does not say whether any bird-flu measure is in force; no official status page was identified in the sources read.

What the checked sources say

  • The Minister issues instructions on measures to prevent and control animal diseases, including isolating animals suspected of infectious disease and conditions for moving animals between areas (Art. 45(a)).
  • When an epidemic or infectious disease dangerous to people or animals appears, the Minister must announce it and the affected area at once and issue decisions on appropriate measures (Art. 45(b)).
  • The Minister may, for health reasons, place any animal farm or animal under isolation (Art. 49(a)) and issues the list of epidemic diseases that holders must report (Art. 49(a)(3)).
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.

Small-flock welfare minimums

Not established from the sources checked

Jurisdiction: Jordan

Applies to: The list of prohibited acts in Agriculture Law Art. 56, an article headed protection of wild birds and wild animals.

Outside this finding's scope

  • Whether the ban on cruelty to animals in that list reaches domestic poultry was not established.
  • No other welfare rule for kept poultry was read.
  • The Agriculture Law was read in the Ministry's consolidated copy ('and its amendments'), whose date was not established; later amendments were not checked.

What the checked sources say

  • Art. 56(c)(12) lists cruelty to animals among the prohibited acts, inside the article on protecting wild birds and wild animals.

The official wording

National rules on keeping poultry

Rule identified for the scope below

Jurisdiction: Jordan

Applies to: Holders of poultry kept as a unit for animal production (Instructions No. 6/Z of 2024, Art. 3); poultry farms (Agriculture Law Art. 42).

Outside this finding's scope

  • Municipal rules on keeping poultry in homes or residential areas were not researched.
  • The Agriculture Law was read in the Ministry's consolidated copy ('and its amendments'), whose date was not established; later amendments were not checked.
  • This is not permission to keep poultry; whether keeping poultry is allowed where you live was not established.

What the checked sources say

  • National instructions require registration of animal-production holdings from fifty poultry birds (Instructions No. 6/Z of 2024, Art. 3).
  • The Minister of Agriculture issues instructions regulating poultry farms and hatcheries, including their licensing conditions and the registration of what is reared in them, and setting up a farm or hatchery without a licence is punished (Agriculture Law Art. 42(a) and (c)).

The official wording

Selling eggs in Jordan? →License, small-flock line, markets and cartons, on their own page.Selling: License: depends

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Common questions

Do I have to register backyard chickens in Jordan?
Registration: conditions apply. The finding covers: Anyone holding or operating a unit for animal production (Instructions No. 6/Z of 2024, Art. 3); an animal agricultural holding is a unit of agricultural production under one management used wholly or partly for animal production (Art. 2). Poultry (chickens, quail, ducks, geese): fifty birds. Pigeons or ornamental birds: one hundred birds. Outside this finding's scope: Whether a household flock kept only for its own eggs counts as a unit for animal production was not established. Livestock-farm licensing under Agriculture Law Art. 42 is set by separate instructions that were not read. Authority: Ministry of Agriculture (agriculture directorate concerned).
Can I keep chickens in my backyard in Jordan?
The national sources we read don't settle it, and we haven't identified who decides. Check your local rules before you get hens.
Do I have to keep my hens indoors for bird flu in Jordan?
Housing orders come and go, so we never show one as current. We haven't confirmed an official current-status page for it.

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