Can you keep chickens in Township of Plumsted, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• The zoning definition of agriculture covers the keeping of poultry for sale, lease or personal use.
• Agriculture is listed as a permitted use in the R-40 zone, and farming and agricultural uses are permitted in the small-lot R-10 zone.
• The right-to-farm chapter calls farming a permitted use everywhere in the township, subject to size requirements and the health and sanitary codes.
• A code search for poultry, chicken and fowl turned up no coop, hen-count or permit rules.

What about ducks?

Yes. Plumsted treats keeping poultry and other animals for personal use as agriculture, a permitted use in its residential zones, and that covers ducks the same as chickens.

§ 15-10 (Agriculture); § 15-4.5; § 2-1: "AGRICULTURE — Shall mean the production, keeping, or maintenance, for sale, lease or personal use, of plants and animals useful to man, including but not limited to ... poultry and poultry products" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Plumsted?

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.