Can you keep chickens in Village of Ridgefield Park, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• Section 123-2C was added in 2014 and amended later that year to set the coop and run distances.
• Chickens, geese, ducks and other fowl may not run at large on public or private property, and feeding them in a park or street is prohibited.
• Cockfighting is prohibited under § 123-1.
• The Board of Health Sanitary Code referenced in § 123-2C is not published on eCode360, so any licensing or housing detail it adds is not available online.

What about ducks?

Yes, with setbacks. Ridgefield Park lets you keep chickens, geese, ducks or other fowl on your own property under the Board of Health sanitary rules, and they may not run at large.

§ 123-2: "Nothing herein shall prohibit a person from keeping, having, raising and/or maintaining any animals and/or chickens, geese, ducks or other fowl on their own property" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Village of Ridgefield Park?

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