Can you keep chickens in Township of Woolwich, NJ?

The rules at a glance

Good to know

• § 203-62D allows raising poultry and other small animals for private use on lots at least one acre in size.
• § 203-62B(1) sets a broader standard of at least two acres, excluding the residence portion, for keeping livestock and poultry noncommercially.
• A farm with more than 10 head of fowl per acre becomes an intensive fowl or livestock farm and needs Planning Board approval.
• The code has no backyard chicken license program and no stated hen count for home flocks.

What about ducks?

Only on larger lots. Woolwich lets residents raise poultry, which includes ducks, for private use on lots of at least one acre, housed at least 75 feet from any other home.

§ 203-62: "The raising of poultry, rabbits and other small animals for private use shall be permitted on lots at least one acre in size, provided that said poultry and animals are housed in yards no closer than 75 feet" Duck coops we build.

Building a coop in Township of Woolwich?

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.