Can you keep chickens in Borough of Pine Beach, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Section 175-58A(3) permits any form of agriculture or horticulture in the R-150 district, except the commercial keeping, breeding, raising or handling of livestock, fowl and fur-bearing animals.
• The R-120, R-75 and R-2 districts all adopt the R-150 permitted use list, so the same rule covers the rest of the borough.
• The zoning definition of livestock turns on profit, covering animals raised for slaughter or sale and chickens kept for laying eggs, which points the exclusion at commercial operations.
• Chapter 76, Dogs and Other Animals, sets no poultry rules, and the borough adopts the Public Health Nuisance Code of New Jersey (1953) for nuisance complaints.

What about ducks?

Yes, same as chickens. Every residential district permits any form of agriculture, and only the commercial keeping of livestock and fowl is excluded. No limit or permit is set.

§ 175-58A(3): "Any form of agriculture or horticulture, except the commercial keeping, breeding, raising or handling of livestock, fowl and fur-bearing animals." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Pine Beach?

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