Can you keep chickens in Township of Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ?
Parsippany has no dedicated backyard-chicken ordinance. Poultry is allowed only as an agricultural use in certain residential zones on lots of at least 5 acres, with large setbacks.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | No numeric limit (permitted only as agriculture) |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | None (agricultural use is a zoning permitted use) |
| Coop setback | A small fowl building (under 60 sq ft): at least 15 ft from side/rear lot lines and 100 ft from the front, increasing with coop size |
| Lot size | 5-acre minimum for the agricultural/poultry use |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- A code-wide search returns zero results for "chicken"; poultry appears only in zoning permitted-use lists and the animal-code definitions.
- Poultry-raising is a permitted principal use in the R-R and similar residential districts, not a backyard-hen right.
- No hen count, rooster rule, or permit exists to cite.
What about ducks?
Ducks are treated like chickens. Parsippany allows poultry raising in residential districts with setbacks for any building housing fowl, starting at 15 feet from side and rear lines and 100 feet from the front for a small coop.
§ 430-38B: "no building of more than two stories in height, run or enclosure for the housing or keeping of fowl, having 60 square feet of floor space or less, shall be within 15 feet of any side or rear lot line" Duck coops we build.
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In an HOA? The town allowing hens is not the same as your association allowing them. What an HOA can and cannot stop.
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