Can you keep chickens in Township of Pemberton, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Agriculture is defined to include poultry and poultry products, and it is a principal permitted use in the AR Agricultural Residential District.
• The R-1 and R-3 districts permit farms under the same provisions that apply in the AR District.
• In the R-100 District agriculture is permitted on lots of one acre or more; the R-60, R-80, R-96 and R-200 districts do not list agriculture as a permitted use.
• Chapter 94 treats chickens and other barnyard fowl as animals for the at-large and noise nuisance rules, but sets no keeping ban or hen limit.
• A farm is defined as a management unit of at least five acres meeting Farmland Assessment criteria, or under five acres producing $50,000 or more a year.

What about ducks?

Only on larger lots and in the right zone. Pemberton treats poultry, including ducks, as agriculture, so ducks follow the same zone and lot rules as chickens, and any poultry shelter must be at least 50 feet from a house on the same lot.

§ 190-30C and E; § 94-31: "no poultry or livestock shelter shall be erected nearer than 50 feet to any dwelling on the same lot." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Pemberton?

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.