Can you keep chickens in Borough of Dumont, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• § 480-3 bars keeping live chickens, geese, ducks, pigeons, other fowl or rabbits on any premises in the borough.
• The same sentence also mentions 30 feet from a dwelling, school or church and 10 feet from a party line "at the discretion of the Board of Health". The wording is muddled, so it is worth asking the Board of Health how they apply it.
• § 480-2 separately bans keeping live chickens or other fowl for sale or slaughter.
• Fine is $2 to $500 per day.

What about ducks?

Unclear, same as chickens. Dumont's fowl rule names ducks alongside chickens in a sentence that reads as a ban but then sets 30-foot and 10-foot distances at the Board of Health's discretion, so ask the Board of Health.

§ 480-3: "any live chickens, geese, ducks, pigeons, other fowl or rabbits, nor within 30 feet of any dwelling house, school or church" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Dumont?

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