Can you keep chickens in Township of Delanco, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Open to single-family homes and qualifying townhomes. HOA homes need written HOA permission, and tenants need the landlord's consent.
• Applicants must take a backyard hen class, and the coop is inspected before any hens arrive.
• Zoning § 110-8C(22) still lists poultry as prohibited, but § 123-4A(4), added in 2023, makes the hen article an exception to that farm-animal ban, so the specific, later hen law governs.
• No slaughter and no selling hens or eggs.

What about ducks?

Unclear, likely not on a normal lot. Delanco's hen license covers chickens only; its animal chapter lets fowl be kept in housing 100 feet from neighbors' doors and 50 feet from lot lines, but its zoning lists keeping poultry as a prohibited use. Ask the township.

§ 123-2; § 123-3; § 110-8(22); §§ 123-25 to 123-33: "The keeping or maintaining of poultry, pigeons and livestock, except dogs and cats, is prohibited" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Delanco?

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.