Can you keep chickens in Township of Berlin, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Class IV covers chickens, turkeys, ducks, hens, cocks, pheasants and other barnyard fowl, plus pigeons.
• The application asks for the number of animals, the coop description, waste handling and the use of every adjoining property.
• The Property Maintenance Officer inspects the property, then Council holds a public hearing after newspaper notice and notice to owners within 200 feet.
• A renewal application, with the same hearing process minus the newspaper notice, is required every year.

What about ducks?

Ducks follow the same rule as chickens. Ducks are Class IV fowl, which need a special permit from the Township Council after notice to neighbors within 200 feet and a public hearing, with the coop at least 50 feet from any property line.

§ 87-1 (Class IV); §§ 87-1 to 87-7: "An animal of Class IV would be fowl such as any feathered vertebrate animal, including, but not limited to, chickens, turkeys, ducks, hens, cocks, pheasants" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Berlin?

Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Camden 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.