Can you keep chickens in Borough of Midland Park, NJ?
Only with a Board of Health license, and the coop has to sit at least 75 feet from any dwelling unit, 200 feet from any food establishment and 10 feet from any property line. Crowing roosters are banned and each bird needs 3 square feet of coop floor.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | No stated limit |
| Roosters | Prohibited |
| Permit | Required: Board of Health license |
| Coop setback | 75 ft from any dwelling unit, 200 ft from any food establishment, 10 ft from any property line |
| Lot size | No minimum stated |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- All live poultry must be kept in coops or runs, which have to be separate from any dwelling.
- Coops need concrete floors, roosts and drop boards, and droppings must be removed at least once a week.
- Bird density is capped at one bird per 3 square feet of usable coop floor space.
- The license does not allow keeping poultry for sale or for preparation for sale.
What about ducks?
Only with a Board of Health license. Midland Park's poultry rules define poultry to include ducks, so the same license and setbacks of 75 feet from homes and 10 feet from lot lines apply.
§ BH3-2.1a (Poultry); § BH3-19: "POULTRY Shall mean chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, guinea fowl, pigeons, pheasants" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Borough of Midland Park?
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.
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