Can you keep chickens in Township of Harding, NJ?
Harding allows chickens as a right-to-farm agricultural use, provided you maintain sanitation, fencing, and setbacks from neighbors, but the code sets no specific hen count or coop dimensions.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | No numeric limit |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Not specified (treated as a permitted agricultural use) |
| Coop setback | "Proper setbacks from adjoining properties" required, but no figure is stated for fowl |
| Lot size | No stated minimum for fowl |
| Ducks | Not addressed in the code |
Good to know
- The right-to-farm zoning provision recognizes keeping livestock, poultry, and fowl for household use.
- Harding is a large-lot, agriculturally zoned township; no ordinance prohibits residential fowl.
- Specifics are delegated to general agricultural-management standards, not a chicken ordinance.
What about ducks?
Unclear. Harding treats 'fowl' as a right-to-farm use but never defines it or mentions ducks, so confirm with the township.
§ 225-5(i); § 225-116: "The raising and keeping of farm animals, including pets, pastoral farm animals (dairy and beef cattle, sheep and goats), swine, fowl, horses, ponies and mules" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Township of Harding?
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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.
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