It really varies from city to city. Even the county laws can be hard to understand. For example, I live in Upper Marlboro. Every one of my neighbors owns five acres or more and owns horses, cows, chickens, goats, or pigs. But then bordering my neighborhood are homes selling for millions. The million dollar homes can't have chickens but every single house on my block has the ok since the properties are 5 acres or more.That's awesome you can home so many Werm, I don't know what I'd do with 28 chickens though! Do any of you know a reliable source of information on how to find out about local poultry keeping laws? I believe I read something at some point that made it sound like within my city limits you're not supposed to have them at all. But then, that's just how I interpreted it. I can't evening remember what I was looking at when found that information. It got to a point where I was go genuinely confused that I just said to myself if the city didn't want me to have chickens, they should have made the rules more clear. This "city" is located in a 90% rural county anyway and with a city population of less than 3,000 (more when college is in), who really cares anyway. All my neighbors think they're cute and as long as neighbors don't complain about them, I don't even know how the city (or anyone else for that matter) would know I have chickens.
Basically if you have enough acreage, no one is going to say anything. If you live on less than an acre, most likely someone is going to say something.