Can you keep chickens in Township of Dennis, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Residential agriculture is listed as a permitted accessory use in the residential zone districts.
• The code defines residential agriculture to include poultry products for household use only.
• No poultry or livestock shelter may be built within 50 feet of any lot line.
• No poultry or livestock shelter may be built within 50 feet of a dwelling on the same lot.

What about ducks?

Yes. Dennis allows residential agriculture, including raising animals and poultry for household use, in its residential zones, and that covers ducks; any poultry shelter must be at least 50 feet from the house.

§ 185-7 (Residential agriculture); § 185-31: "The production, principally for home use or consumption, of plants, animals or their products ... including but not limited to, gardening, fruit production, and poultry and livestock products for household use only" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Dennis?

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