Can you keep chickens in Harmony Township, NJ?
Only as a farm. Farms, defined as at least 5 acres used for gain in raising products including poultry, are a permitted use in most zones, but the code has no rule allowing a few backyard hens on a smaller residential lot.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | No stated limit (farms of 5+ acres) |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Not specified |
| Coop setback | Not specified |
| Lot size | Min. 5 acres (farm definition) |
| Ducks | Not addressed in the code |
Good to know
- Farms are a permitted principal use in the AR-500, AR-300, AR-250, R-150, R-HB and business/industrial zones.
- Residential accessory uses are limited to animal shelters for not more than five domestic pets of the household.
- Farm buildings for housing livestock are allowed on farms only.
- Chapter 133 requires owners of fowl to keep them from running at large on roads or other people's land.
What about ducks?
Unclear. Harmony allows poultry only as part of a farm of at least 5 acres and never defines poultry or mentions ducks, so check with the township.
§ 525-4B (Farm); §§ 525-9 to 525-12: "land containing at least five acres which is used for gain in raising of agricultural products, livestock, poultry and dairy products." Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Harmony Township?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Warren 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.
Chicken rules in nearby Warren County towns
Compare them side by side in the Warren County table.
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