Can you keep chickens in Borough of Little Silver, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• The rule sits in the zoning article, not in the animal control chapter.
• Horses, sheep, goats, cattle and other animals except small domesticated animals need a plot over two acres and the same 50 foot enclosure setback.
• The code sets no hen cap, no license and no separate rule for roosters.

What about ducks?

Only on larger lots. Little Silver's rule covers chickens and other fowl alike, so ducks need a half-acre lot and an enclosure at least 50 feet from every lot line.

§ 16A-10.14: "The keeping of chickens or other fowl is prohibited, except on a plot of one-half acre or more and except within an enclosure distant at least 50 feet from each lot line." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Little Silver?

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.