Can you keep chickens in City of Perth Amboy, NJ?
Yes, with a permit. Perth Amboy requires a written permit from the Division of Health before you keep fowl, and the coop or yard must be at least 25 feet from any door or window of a dwelling.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | No stated limit |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Required: written permit from the Division of Health |
| Coop setback | 25 feet from any door or window of a dwelling, and 25 feet from any building used for human habitation or food |
| Lot size | No minimum stated |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- The permit application must state where the enclosure will be and roughly how many birds will be kept.
- Coops, runways and pens must be kept clean and free of filth, garbage and rubbish.
- Any bird with a contagious or communicable disease must be destroyed by the owner.
- A code-wide search found no limit on the number of hens and no mention of roosters.
What about ducks?
Yes, with a permit. Perth Amboy's fowl permit and 25-foot coop setback rules name ducks along with chickens.
§§ 362-11 to 362-15 (esp. § 362-14): "No goat pen, chicken coop ... for the keeping of any goat, chicken, duck, goose or other fowl shall be maintained ... nearer than twenty-five (25) feet to any building used ... as a place of human habitation" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in City of Perth Amboy?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Middlesex 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 Middlesex County towns
Compare them side by side in the Middlesex County table.
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