Can you keep chickens in Township of Teaneck, NJ?
Teaneck lets a single-family homeowner keep up to 6 hens (no roosters) with a biennial $25 Health Department permit, strictly for backyard use with no selling of eggs.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | Up to 6 chicken hens |
| Roosters | Not allowed (hens only) |
| Permit | Required ($25 biennial Health Department permit) |
| Coop setback | Not specified as a distance (the application requires coop dimensions and location) |
| Lot size | Single-family residential properties only |
| Ducks | Not allowed |
Good to know
- Selling eggs from permitted hens is prohibited; keeping is a non-commercial accessory use.
- Farmland-assessed properties are exempt from the chapter.
- Governed by the animals-and-fowl chapter.
What about ducks?
Ducks are not allowed on ordinary residential lots in Teaneck. The township bans poultry of any description, and its permit exception covers only up to six chicken hens (farmland-assessed properties are exempt).
Sec. 6-5; Sec. 6-6: "no person shall keep or allow to be kept in any building or premises ... any pigs, horses, mules, cows, pigeons, or poultry of any age or description." Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Township of Teaneck?
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.
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