Can you keep chickens in Town of Guttenberg, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• § 3-21 names chickens, roosters, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigs and lambs, and prohibits that use in every zone in town.
• The ban is written around storage, receipt, delivery, harboring, maintaining or keeping live animals for sale or other transfer for later human consumption.
• Searches of the whole code for fowl, poultry, hens, livestock and coop turn up nothing else on keeping birds at home.
• Chapter 5, Animal Control covers dogs and cats.

What about ducks?

Unclear. Guttenberg bans keeping ducks and chickens for sale or transfer as food, but says nothing about a few ducks kept as pets or for eggs. Ask the town first.

§ 3-21: "keeping of live animals, including, but not limited to, chickens, roosters, turkeys, ducks, geese, pigs, and lambs, in the Town of Guttenberg for sale or other transfer" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Town of Guttenberg?

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.