Can you keep chickens in Borough of Somerdale, NJ?
Yes, with a permit. Somerdale allows four chickens per single-family home on a $25 annual permit, with the coop at least 25 feet from your own and your neighbor's dwelling. Roosters are prohibited.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | Up to 4 chickens |
| Roosters | Prohibited |
| Permit | Required: $25 annual permit, expires December 31 |
| Coop setback | 25 ft from the windows or doors of the participant's dwelling and of the neighboring dwelling |
| Lot size | No minimum stated |
| Rule adopted | May 2022 |
| Ducks | Not allowed |
Good to know
- Only residents of single-family homes are eligible.
- Chickens, coops and runs are allowed in the rear yard only, and the coop and run together cannot exceed 100 square feet.
- Garages and accessory buildings do not count as a dwelling when you measure the 25 feet.
- No slaughtering chickens and no selling eggs in the borough.
What about ducks?
No. Somerdale bans ducks by name; only licensed backyard chickens are exempt from its fowl ban.
§ 263-1: "ducks, geese, pheasants, pigeons or any other fowl, with the exception of chickens singly or in any number" Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Borough of Somerdale?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Camden 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 Camden County towns
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