Can you keep chickens in Township of Mount Laurel, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Only one license is issued per household per year, and United States veterans are exempt from the fee.
• The property must be a detached single-family or two-family home; townhouse and multifamily yards are excluded.
• The coop may be up to 120 square feet and 8 feet tall; an attached run may be up to 200 square feet.
• Commercial sales of eggs, meat or fertilizer from the birds are not allowed.

What about ducks?

Yes, with a license. Mount Laurel's backyard rule covers hens or other domestic fowl such as ducks, so ducks count toward the same lot-size limit of 3 to 8 birds and need the same $12 license and zoning permit.

§ 154-19D; § 70-30 (Fowl): "Keeping of hens or other domestic fowl such as ducks, pheasants, geese, or grouse, provided the following restrictions are satisfied" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Mount Laurel?

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