Can you keep chickens in Township of Stow Creek, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• R and HR districts allow all Agricultural district uses except commercial raising of livestock and fowl, including chickens.
• Buildings for more than 100 fowl must be 200 ft from adjacent property and from R, HR and Commercial district lines.
• Poultry farms need site plan approval.
• Source is the 2017 Land Development Ordinance posted on the township website; no codified code is online.

What about ducks?

Ducks follow the same rule as chickens. Noncommercial flocks are allowed, and a shelter for fewer than 100 fowl must sit 30 feet from side and rear lines and 100 feet from a neighbor's home.

Sec. 6.4(A)-(C): "no building for the shelter of fowl or farm livestock in lesser quantities than specified under Section 6.4(C)(1)(c), above, shall be closer than thirty (30) feet to any side or rear boundary line" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Stow Creek?

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