Can you keep chickens in Borough of Woodland Park, NJ?
Woodland Park's code is silent on backyard chickens. Neither the animal-control chapter nor zoning permits, limits, or bans keeping poultry, so confirm directly with the borough before you build.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Unclear |
| Hens | Not specified |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Not specified |
| Coop setback | Not specified |
| Lot size | Not specified |
| Ducks | Not addressed in the code |
Good to know
- The animal-control chapter covers only dogs, kennels, vicious dogs, pet waste, and wildlife feeding, not poultry.
- Zoning mentions poultry only in a retail-use list, not for keeping fowl on residential property.
- With the code silent, check with the Woodland Park zoning or health office. (Formerly West Paterson.)
What about ducks?
Woodland Park's code has no rule on keeping ducks or other poultry at home. It mentions fowl only in auction and wildlife-feeding rules, so ask the borough before keeping ducks.
Ch. 10; Ch. 22: "No auctioneer shall sell, expose for sale or offer for sale, pigs, hogs, boars, shoats, sows, horses, cows, sheep, goats, fowl or any other livestock whatsoever." Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Borough of Woodland Park?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Passaic 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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