Can you keep chickens in Township of Little Egg Harbor, NJ?
Yes, with a township registration. You register with the Zoning Officer, pay $25 a year, and the number of hens you may keep runs from 3 on a half acre or less up to 25 on 3 acres or more.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | 3 to 25, based on lot size |
| Roosters | Prohibited |
| Permit | Required: $25 annual registration, renewed yearly |
| Coop setback | 15 feet from adjoining property lines, rear yard only |
| Lot size | Min. 7,500 square feet |
| Ducks | Allowed |
Good to know
- Fowl means hens and ducks only. No other fowl, waterfowl or gamefowl.
- Not allowed in the R-50, WFD, PRD or commercial zones, or on any property abutting a waterway or lagoon.
- Only on a lot with a single-family home. No fowl on vacant lots.
- The Zoning Officer inspects the property before the registration is approved.
What about ducks?
Yes, with registration. Little Egg Harbor's fowl rules expressly allow ducks, both hens and drakes, under the same Zoning Office registration and lot-size limits as hens.
§ 134-16; § 134-20B: "For purposes of, and as used in, this article, "fowl" shall mean female chickens (hens only) and ducks (both hens and drakes) only." Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Township of Little Egg Harbor?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Ocean 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.
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