Can you keep chickens in Borough of Helmetta, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Chapter 21 (Animals at Large) bars geese, ducks, chickens and other poultry from running at large in streets or public places.
• Read Chapter 31 (Dogs and Cats), Chapter 3 (Board of Health), Chapter 64 (Public Health Nuisance Code) and Chapter 41A (Noise), plus the code index; none regulate keeping poultry.
• In the Chapter 40 zoning rules, the single-family zones list garages, greenhouses, sheds, pools and fences as accessory uses, with no mention of animals. Livestock appears only in the WS wetlands zone, where homes are not allowed.
• The code is posted as scanned chapter PDFs on the borough website, not on eCode360.

What about ducks?

Unclear. Helmetta's published code only bars ducks and other poultry from running loose in streets and public places; it has no rule on keeping them at home.

§ 21-1: "shall permit any geese, ducks, chickens or other poultry to run at large through the said streets or public places" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Helmetta?

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