Can you keep chickens in Borough of Woodstown, NJ?
Only on larger lots. Woodstown does not allow farm animals on lots under five acres, and housing or manure must stay 100 feet from a street or property line.
The rules at a glance
| Chickens allowed | Yes, with conditions |
| Hens | No stated limit, but only on a lot of five acres or more |
| Roosters | Not specified |
| Permit | Not specified |
| Coop setback | At least 100 ft from a street or property line for housing or stored manure |
| Lot size | Min. 5 acres |
| Ducks | Same rules as chickens |
Good to know
- Intensive fowl or swine farms are a prohibited use everywhere in the borough.
- An intensive fowl farm is any farm with over 10 head of fowl per acre.
- General purpose agriculture is defined as a parcel of five or more acres.
- The code does not define farm animal, so it is not spelled out whether a few backyard hens fall under the five-acre rule.
What about ducks?
Only on larger lots, same as chickens. Woodstown does not allow farm animals on lots under five acres, and housing or manure must stay 100 feet from a street or property line.
§ 67-40I: "No horses or farm animals shall be housed or manure stored within 100 feet of a street or property line or permitted on lots less than five acres in size." Duck coops we build.
Building a coop in Borough of Woodstown?
Triano Farms builds custom, predator-proof chicken coops on-site across Salem 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 Salem County towns
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