Can you keep chickens in City of Bordentown, NJ?
Yes, with a setback rule. Chickens and other fowl may be kept in residential areas only if the coop or pen is at least 25 feet from the neighboring property line.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | No stated limit |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Not specified |
| Coop setback | 25 ft from adjoining property line |
| Lot size | No minimum stated |
| Rule adopted | Aug 2007 |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- The fowl rule covers any mature chicken, turkey, duck, goose, guinea, pigeon or other poultry in residential areas.
- Slaughtering any animal requires a tract of at least 3 acres, out of view of others (§ 148-18).
- Larger livestock such as goats, sheep and pigs need at least 1 acre and a 100-foot setback (§ 148-15).
- The zoning chapter does not mention poultry.
What about ducks?
Ducks follow the same rule as chickens. In residential areas the pen or poultry house must be at least 25 feet from the neighboring property line.
§ 148-16: "No person shall keep or maintain any mature chicken, turkey, duck, goose, guinea, pigeon or other poultry or fowl in any residential area" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in City of Bordentown?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Burlington 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 Burlington County towns
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