Londonderry, NH?

[Jmiller820]

My husband and I currently have 5 chickens on the south shore in MA. We have a run for them and occasionally let them free range the yard. We're looking at purchasing a house in Londonderry, NH but after some research we see that there's a 2 acre rule per the town, but no maximums. So you could have a thousand chickens as long as you have two acres. Does anyone have any recent insight on this? I've read a lot that people think it's absurd and people continuously get turned down for permits. We're looking at houses with atleast an acre which is plenty of space for the 6-10 chickens we would want and possibly a few ducks. No roosters wanted. We have them on less than a quarter acre now. This is just crazy to me. What happened to live free or die?! Does it seem like this rule might be overturned anytime soon?:/

 

[n1jbq]

Greetings

I see this post was a year old but figured I would try to reach out...

I just moved to Londonderry NH to a property with a large older barn (which looks like it had chickens at one time). My property currently is only 1 acre (subdivided from the original 32 acres back in the 80s). I was hoping I could have 3-6 chickens (no rosters) on the property till I started reading the zoning rules...Wow the 2 acre min caught me off guard!

So I was wondering if you ever determined if you can have a lesser number of chicken on a 1 acre lot in Londonderry NH ?
If not do you know of any local group trying to change this zoning in any organized way ?

Please let me know what you discovered

 

[jakegwood]

I know this post is now super old, but considering moving to Londonderry myself, and found this thread. FYI, seems like new ordinance was introduced to allow poultry down to 0.5 acres with some minimum requirements: https://www.londonderrynh.gov/sites...ultry, and horses,feet from any property line.

Hope this is helpful to someone!