Can you keep chickens in City of Absecon, NJ?
Yes. The sanitary code assumes chickens may be kept and sets no permit, flock limit or setback, but it does treat a smelly coop or a crowing rooster that bothers the neighborhood as a nuisance.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes |
| Hens | No stated limit |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Not specified |
| Coop setback | No stated setback |
| Lot size | No minimum stated |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- The Board of Health investigates complaints and can order a nuisance abated.
- The rule names foul-smelling houses or pens, birds running at large and the crowing of adult roosters as the problems it targets.
- A violation carries a fine of $50 to $1,000.
- Searched the whole code for poultry, fowl, chicken, livestock and agricultural. Nothing in the zoning chapter bans or caps chickens.
What about ducks?
Yes. Absecon's sanitary code treats ducks the same as chickens: no permit or flock limit, but smelly pens or birds running loose count as a nuisance.
§ 373-4: "No chickens or ducks or dogs shall be kept in such a manner that they become an annoyance or nuisance to the surrounding neighborhood by reason of foul-smelling houses or pens or by running at large" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in City of Absecon?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Atlantic County and all of New Jersey, sized to your flock and built to your town's rules.
In an HOA? The town allowing hens is not the same as your association allowing them. What an HOA can and cannot stop.
New to this? Start with how to raise chickens in NJ, or what a coop costs.
Chicken rules in nearby Atlantic County towns
Compare them side by side in the Atlantic County table.
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