Can you keep chickens in Township of South Harrison, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• § 90-5.23F sets the 5-acre minimum for farm and agricultural uses in every zone that allows them (AR, ARI, NC-1, PO/R, LI).
• The code defines 'residential agriculture' (farm animals kept for the residents' enjoyment) but no zone lists it as a use.
• Chapter 38 counts fowl as livestock: livestock must be fenced and may not run at large.
• Read: Ch. 38 Animals, Ch. 154 Public Health Nuisances, Ch. 90 Land Use (definitions, prohibited uses, all district use lists).

What about ducks?

Only on larger lots, same as chickens. Keeping fowl falls under farm and agricultural uses, which need a lot of at least 5 acres, with shelters 300 feet from neighboring homes if not farmland assessed.

§ 90-5.23F: "no building or structure used for shelter or enclosure of fowl, game, horses or farm livestock shall be closer than 300 feet to any residential building" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of South Harrison?

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