Can you keep chickens in Borough of Bloomingdale, NJ?
Bloomingdale allows fowl at up to 10 per acre (20 maximum regardless of lot size), with at most one rooster, kept penned at least 75 feet from the main building.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | Up to 10 fowl per acre, capped at 20 total regardless of lot size |
| Roosters | Allowed, no more than one |
| Permit | None named in the fowl section (must also meet zoning) |
| Coop setback | Coop or penned area at least 75 ft from the principal building on the property |
| Lot size | No minimum; the limit is density-based (10 per acre) |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- "Fowl" is defined broadly: chickens, ducks, turkeys, peacocks, game birds, and others.
- No fowl may run at large; they must be confined in a coop with an enclosed run.
- Farmland-assessed properties are exempt.
What about ducks?
Yes. Bloomingdale's fowl definition names ducks, so ducks share the same limits as chickens: up to 10 per acre (20 maximum), penned at least 75 feet from the main building.
§ 5-6.2: "FOWL Includes chickens, ducks, turkeys, peacocks, ostriches, game birds or any other fowl." Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Borough of Bloomingdale?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Passaic 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 Passaic County towns
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