Can you keep chickens in Borough of Rocky Hill, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• The code has no section on chickens, poultry, fowl, hens or roosters. The Animals chapter (Ch. 56) covers dogs, cats and animal waste.
• The R-1 zone, and the R-2 and B zones that copy it, allow general farming with horses but exclude all other forms of animal husbandry.
• The R-1A Planned Residential zone lists general farming without that exclusion.
• The nuisance chapter (§ 74-2) bans animals or birds that disturb neighbors with frequent or long noise.

What about ducks?

Unclear. Rocky Hill's code never mentions ducks or chickens, and its main residential zone allows general farming but excludes animal husbandry other than horses, so check with the borough.

§ 80-85: "General farming, including the raising and breeding of horses, but excluding all other forms of animal husbandry." Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Borough of Rocky Hill?

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