Can you keep chickens in Township of North Hanover, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Ordinance 2020-02 cut the poultry or livestock shelter setback from 100 feet to 25 feet from any lot line.
• The zoning definition of agriculture includes poultry husbandry, and the R-A zone lists agricultural uses and farms as principal permitted uses.
• The R-2 Residential district lists only dwellings, public recreation and government buildings among its principal permitted uses.
• Section 16-040 states that all uses not expressly permitted in the zoning chapter are prohibited.
• The township publishes Chapter 16 as an unofficial compilation, not a codified online code.

What about ducks?

Probably treated like chickens, but North Hanover's code never defines poultry or mentions ducks. Ducks are usually counted as poultry; confirm with the township before getting them.

§ 16-200.1(C); definition of Agriculture: "No poultry or livestock shelter shall be erected nearer than" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of North Hanover?

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.