Can you keep chickens in City of Corbin City, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• R5 Rural Residential zone accessory uses include keeping farm animals or fowl for the residents' enjoyment, not mainly for commercial purposes. The R5 minimum lot size is 5 acres.
• The Agricultural zone (5-acre lots) permits farm purposes; a farm is defined as a lot of at least 5 acres.
• RR, R-1 and R2 residential zones do not list fowl, and any use not specifically permitted is prohibited (§ 102-16.2).
• Commercial poultry processing is banned in all districts. The code's eCode360 listing is titled City of Corbin.

What about ducks?

Ducks follow the same rule as chickens. Keeping farm animals or fowl for your own enjoyment is allowed in the R5 Rural Residential zone, where lots are at least 5 acres, and on farms in the Agricultural zone.

§ 102-5.2d; § 102-16.2: "The keeping of farm animals or fowl for the enjoyment of the residents and not primarily for commercial purposes." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in City of Corbin City?

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.