Can you keep chickens in Borough of Lodi, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• The borough code on eCode360 has no chicken, poultry or fowl rule; searches for poultry, fowl and chicken found only floodplain definitions and a new law.
• Ordinance 2026-24 (adopted September 15, 2026) names Board of Health Ordinance 883, Section 25, Keeping of Live Poultry or other fowl for other than business purposes, and removes pigeons from it.
• The same ordinance bans harboring pigeons and drops the pigeon loft permit fee.
• Ask the Lodi Health Office for a copy of Section 25 before building a coop.

What about ducks?

Unclear. Lodi's Board of Health sanitary code has a section on keeping live poultry and other fowl, but its text isn't published online, so the rules for ducks couldn't be checked.

Ord. No. 2026-24; BOH Ord. 883 § 25: "Section 25 titled Keeping of Live Poultry, Pigeons, or other fowl for other than business purposes" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Lodi?

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