Can you keep chickens in Borough of Laurel Springs, NJ?
Yes. Laurel Springs allows up to 6 chickens (and up to 6 ducks) per home as long as they are kept in pens; no permit is mentioned.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | Up to 6 chickens |
| Roosters | Not specified (gamecocks and other fighting birds are banned) |
| Permit | Not specified |
| Coop setback | Not specified |
| Lot size | No minimum stated |
| Rule adopted | 1980 |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- The limit is 6 chickens and/or 6 ducks per dwelling, and they must be confined in pens.
- The sentence is oddly worded (it reads "unlawful ... no more than six chickens"); the evident meaning is a cap of six.
- Turkeys, ostriches, gamecocks and fighting birds are on the prohibited animals list.
- No poultry rules found in the Health (Ch. 23), Nuisances (Ch. 178) or Zoning (Ch. 270) chapters, or in the New Laws list.
What about ducks?
Yes. Laurel Springs allows up to 6 ducks (and up to 6 chickens) per home, as long as they are kept in pens; no permit is mentioned.
§ 76-24C: "no more than six chickens and/or six ducks per dwelling; provided, however, that said chickens and/or ducks are confined in pens" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Borough of Laurel Springs?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Camden 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 Camden County towns
Compare them side by side in the Camden County table.
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