Can you keep chickens in Borough of Farmingdale, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• The 100 foot setback applies to any stable, outhouse, building or accessory building used to keep animals or fowl.
• Manure, garbage and filth must go in closed pits 100 feet from property lines, sealed against flies and rodents.
• Coops and accessory buildings have to be sprayed or fogged for flies and insects at least twice a week.
• The one acre per animal rule covers horses, swine, sheep and cows only, not fowl.
• Chapter 25, Land Development Regulations, sets no separate poultry rule.

What about ducks?

Ducks follow the same rule as chickens. Farmingdale's animals and fowl rule sets no bird limit or permit, but any building housing fowl must sit at least 100 feet from every property line.

§ 5-11.1; § 5-11.3: "No stable, outhouse, building or accessory building used for the keeping or housing of animals or fowl shall be located within 100 feet of any property line" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Farmingdale?

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