Can you keep chickens in City of Millville, NJ?
Only on larger lots. Millville allows home animal agriculture in zones that permit customary agricultural uses, with a minimum lot of one acre and up to 32 bird units, which works out to 32 mature chickens per acre up to 96 birds on three acres.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | Up to 32 mature chickens per acre |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Not specified |
| Coop setback | Poultry yard at least 25 feet from neighboring property lines and to the rear of the dwelling |
| Lot size | Min. 1 acre |
| Ducks | Allowed with conditions |
Good to know
- A mature chicken counts as one bird unit; ducks count as two, turkeys and geese as four.
- Outdoor poultry yards need at least 15 square feet per bird unit, fenced and screened, with runoff kept on site.
- Indoor space is two square feet per chicken on a floor system, or 60 square inches per bird in cages.
- The Animal Control chapter separately bars keeping livestock on property under two acres, which sits awkwardly against the one acre zoning rule.
What about ducks?
Yes on larger lots, but ducks count double. Millville's home animal agriculture rule needs at least one acre and allows 32 bird units per acre, and each duck counts as 2 bird units, so about 16 ducks per acre.
§ 30-203, Table 2: "Type of Bird Bird Unit Factor Chicken (mature) 1 Broilers and fryers 1/3 Ducks 2 Turkeys 4 Geese 4" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in City of Millville?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Cumberland 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 Cumberland County towns
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