Can you keep chickens in Borough of East Newark, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• The rule sits in Chapter 5, Section 5-4, Livestock and Exotic Animals, and groups fowl with horses, cattle, swine, goats and pigeons.
• The sentence is written around keeping animals in a dwelling house, so the borough reads it as a lot size limit rather than a flat ban.
• Slaughterhouses, including any place where fowl are killed, are banned everywhere in the borough.
• The noise chapter prohibits keeping any fowl or animal that disturbs neighbors by frequent noise.

What about ducks?

Only on larger lots. East Newark's fowl rule covers ducks too, so they may not be kept on any lot narrower than 50 feet or shallower than 100 feet.

§ 5-4.2: "No person shall keep or allow to be kept in any dwelling house or any part thereof, any horse, cattle, swine, goat, fowl or pigeon or exotic animals on any lot less than 50 feet in width" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of East Newark?

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