Can you keep chickens in City of Lambertville, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Any shed, coop, pen or runway for chickens must be kept clean and sanitary (Board of Health code).
• Chickens and other fowl may not be kept in a dwelling or any building people live in.
• The animal control chapter defines animal as dog or cat only; code searches for poultry, fowl, chickens, hens, livestock and farm found no zoning rule on backyard poultry.

What about ducks?

Unclear. Lambertville's health code only requires that coops for chickens, fowl or other domestic animals be kept clean and that birds not be kept inside homes; it sets no rule on whether ducks are allowed.

§§ BH2-5, BH2-6: "It shall be unlawful for any person to maintain in the City any shed, coop, pen or runway for chickens, fowl, rabbits or other domestic animals, unless same is kept in a clean and sanitary condition." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in City of Lambertville?

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