Can you keep chickens in Borough of Demarest, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• The two-bird cap covers adult fowl generally, including chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons and turkeys.
• Premises where fowl are kept must be maintained in a sanitary condition.
• Keeping fowl in a way that breeds insects or rodents, or that creates foul odors or disturbing noises, is a public nuisance.
• Farm animals such as cattle, horses, goats, sheep and pigs are prohibited outright.
• Flocks that existed when the section was adopted may continue as a preexisting use but may not be extended.

What about ducks?

Yes, but no more than two adult birds in total. Demarest's two-fowl limit names ducks along with chickens.

§ 189-70: "No person shall raise, keep, harbor or slaughter more than two adult fowl, including but not limited to chickens, ducks, geese, pigeons or turkeys within the Borough." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Demarest?

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