Can you keep chickens in Township of Boonton, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Schedule D Note 5 also allows 'pet animals or fowl' on smaller lots (20,000 sq ft in R-20 up to 81,000 sq ft in R-81 and R-261), but it names chickens specifically as pastoral farm animals needing 5 acres; we apply the stricter rule.
• Birds must be kept sanitary and confined at all times.
• No business use is allowed.

What about ducks?

Ducks are treated like chickens. The zoning schedule names chickens and ducks together as pastoral farm fowl allowed on five acres or more, and it also allows pet fowl on smaller lots (20,000 sq ft in R-20 up to 81,000 sq ft in R-81 and R-261).

Ch. 102, Schedule D, Notes 5 and 8: "Pastoral farm animals and fowl limited to horses, ponies, cattle, hogs, rabbits, sheep, goats, chickens, ducks, geese and turkeys are permitted, provided that said farm animals and fowl are located on property of five acres or more" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Boonton?

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