But despite the change, critics are yet to be mollified.
The Keeping of Animals (Excluding Dogs) and Birds Bylaw was put together earlier this year to protect the public from noise, nuisance and health and safety threats caused by animals.
It originally had a section that read: "Every person keeping an animal on private land shall collect manure, including soiled straw or litter bedding, from animal enclosures, and shall either store it in fly-proof receptacles before it is disposed of, or shall bury it under at least 50mm of soil."
The section had rural people up in arms.
At the time, Strath Taieri Community Board chairman Barry Williams said the proposal was ridiculous, as "you would have to put a bucket under all the sheep. It's unbelievable".
The modified bylaw, released in a report to Monday's planning and environment committee, changed the section to include only people on "residential" rather than "private" land.
They had to collect the manure, straw and bedding only from animal "pens".
Those were defined as "a small confined area for animals and birds".
But Mr Williams, when asked to respond to the changes yesterday, said the bylaw was still "crazy".
The wording of the bylaw would mean sheep pens used for jobs such as drenching would still be covered by the bylaw.
And the change to residential land rather than "private" land did not help.
"I've got residential [zoned] land with sheep on it," he said.
Council environmental health team leader Ros MacGill responded the pens the bylaw was targeting were not sheep pens, but the sort of wire-netting enclosures in which people kept poultry, for instance.
Ms MacGill said the changes were an attempt to make the bylaw more specific.
They were not specific enough for Mr Williams though, who said he planned to raise the matter at the next meeting of the community board, and make a submission if the draft was voted for on Monday.
