Can you keep chickens in Township of Long Hill, NJ?
Long Hill expressly allows backyard chickens at single-family homes: up to 4 hens, no roosters, kept in a backyard coop, under an ordinance adopted in 2026.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes |
| Hens | Up to 4 |
| Roosters | Prohibited |
| Permit | None required for the birds (building and zoning permits apply to the coop) |
| Coop setback | Meets the zone's side/rear-yard setback and at least 20 ft from the home on the lot; backyard only |
| Lot size | No minimum; allowed in the C, R-45, R-30, and R-20 zones at single-family dwellings |
| Ducks | Allowed with conditions |
Good to know
- No roosters, no free-ranging, and no slaughtering; the coop must be rat-proof, ventilated, and clean.
- Selling eggs is prohibited.
- A new ordinance (§ 3-20), added June 2026.
What about ducks?
Long Hill's four-chicken limit covers chickens only, but the land use code separately permits keeping poultry as an accessory use to single-family homes in the C, R-45, R-30 and R-20 zones, with manure stored at least 75 feet from property lines. Poultry is not defined, so confirm duck numbers with the township.
§ LU-124.10; § 3-20.1: "The keeping of horses, dairy animals, livestock and poultry shall be permitted as an accessory use to single family residences in the C, R-45, R-30, and R-20 zones subject to the following requirements" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Township of Long Hill?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Morris 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 Morris County towns
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