Can you keep chickens in Borough of Lake Como, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Slaughtering chickens, hens, cocks or any other fowl anywhere in the borough is prohibited.
• Chickens, ducks and other fowl cannot be allowed to roam on any sidewalk except at a driveway.
• Chapter 17, Development Regulations, never mentions poultry, fowl, chickens, livestock or agriculture.
• Chapter 3, Police Regulations, only covers feeding wild and migratory waterfowl, and Lake Como publishes no Board of Health chapter.

What about ducks?

Unclear, same as chickens. Lake Como's fowl and livestock section names ducks but only bans slaughtering them and letting them loose on sidewalks; nothing permits or forbids keeping them.

§ 5-3.1; § 5-3.2: "any chickens, ducks or other fowl upon any sidewalk, excepting at a driveway" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Lake Como?

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.