Can you keep chickens in Township of Cranbury, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Home agriculture means producing plants, animals or their products mainly for the owner's own use, and the definition names poultry.
• It is permitted in all zones except the VC (Village Commercial) zone.
• The 5-acre minimum lot and 200-foot livestock building setback apply to commercial agriculture, not home agriculture.
• Eggs produced on site may be sold from a small seasonal farm stand set back 35 feet from property lines.

What about ducks?

Yes. Cranbury's home agriculture use covers raising animals and poultry for your own use, which includes ducks, in every zone except Village Commercial.

§ 150-7 (Agriculture, home); § 150-11A: "The production, principally for use or consumption of the property owner, of plants, animals, or their products, including, but not limited to, gardening, fruit production, poultry and livestock products." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Cranbury?

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