And this in a state where the commercial rearing of chickens is a major industry.
If I'd have had chickens when I lived in Delaware (near Millsboro), no odor from my coop would have been detectable over the odor from the commercial chicken houses and the manure spread on the farmers' fields. :D
As in my answer to the poll about neighbors and roosters -- my neighbors' rooster crows more than mine does. ;)
A friend of ours lives in a subdivision specifically intended as horse and homestead properties where they joke about the Neighborhood Association citing people for not having enough...
I'm outside town limits in an agricultural county now. No restrictions.
In my previous home inside the limits of a different town, there had been a no-chicken rule based on a no farming ordinance -- until it was argued that the same interpretation of that law would forbid home gardens as well...