{
 "answer": "In the Town of Midland, Ontario, hens permitted: False; bees permitted: True; livestock rule: Schedule 'B' farm animals (including horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs) only permitted on lands assessed and zoned as farmlands.. Source: Animal Control By-law 2024-36 (Animal Control and Feeding of Wildlife), verified 2026-08-28.",
 "municipality_id": "gx-001637",
 "municipality": "Midland",
 "status_type": "Town",
 "jurisdiction": "Ontario",
 "country": "CA",
 "topic": "backyard_animals",
 "label": "Backyard hens & livestock",
 "status": "found",
 "last_verified": "2026-08-28",
 "official_website": "http://www.midland.ca/",
 "documents": [
  {
   "primary": true,
   "is_official": true,
   "title": "Animal Control By-law 2024-36 (Animal Control and Feeding of Wildlife)",
   "category": "backyard_animals",
   "document_type": "bylaw",
   "status": "adopted",
   "adopted_date": "2024-06-12",
   "document_url": "https://media-003-ca.cdn.govstack.com/midland-ca/media/ouofdwzx/by-law-2024-36-animal-control-feeding-of-wildlife.pdf",
   "summary": "Prohibits the exotic and wild animals listed in Schedule 'A' on any property in the Town with no farmland exception, and separately confines the Schedule 'B' farm animals — Galliformes (chickens, turkeys, peafowl, pheasants), geese, ducks and swans, cattle, sheep, goats, horses, donkeys, pigs, llamas, ostriches and rabbits — to lands both assessed and zoned as farmland. Outside farmland, rabbits",
   "discovered_by": "on-newcats",
   "discovered_at": "2026-08-29",
   "capture_sha256": "05a7c442db6ee95f54855373792e12598dc4680c7d61b1ca6adf6cdcd1db523e",
   "captured_at": "2026-08-29T14:33:34+00:00",
   "capture_http_status": 200,
   "snapshot_url": "https://pub-e61c5ee2a8704225bfa8de0c280e8a2c.r2.dev/bylaws/05a7c442db6ee95f54855373792e12598dc4680c7d61b1ca6adf6cdcd1db523e.pdf",
   "link_dead": false,
   "facts": {
    "hens_permitted": false,
    "bees_permitted": true,
    "livestock_rule": "Schedule 'B' farm animals (including horses, cattle, sheep, goats, pigs) only permitted on lands assessed and zoned as farmlands."
   },
   "fact_citations": {
    "hens_permitted": "s. 2.3; Schedule \"B\" item 6: Galliformes (such as grouse, peacock, chickens, pheasants, turkeys)",
    "bees_permitted": "Schedule \"A\" item 28: \"All venomous insects, except bees as defined in the Bees Act, R.S.O. 1990, B.6\"",
    "livestock_rule": "s. 2.3: \"no person shall keep, possess or harbour any Animal listed in Schedule 'B' of this by-law on any property except upon lands assessed and zoned as farmlands\""
   },
   "transcript_url": "/ca/on/midland/backyard-hens/text-05a7c442db6e/",
   "transcript_quality": "exact"
  }
 ],
 "source": "https://govanswers.org/ca/on/midland/backyard-hens/"
}