Celebrities Who Have Chicken Coops at Home: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Chip and Joanna Gaines and More

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Celebrities Who Have Chicken Coops at Home: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Chip and Joanna Gaines and More

An egg-cellent furry friend! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Jennifer Garner and more celebrities have expanded their families with pet chickens.

“She’s always wanted chickens,” the Duke of Sussex said of his wife during their March 2021 CBS tell-all interview, giving a tour of their chicken coop.

Harry and the Duchess of Sussex — who moved to California in 2020 after stepping down from their duties as senior royals — added a home for their rescued chickens in “Archie’s Chick Inn.” (The coop’s name refers to their eldest son Archie, who was born in May 2019.)

The Suits alum — who noted that she just “[loves] rescuing” animals from chickens to her pet dogs — further gushed about their new residence in Montecito, California. “It’s so basic, but it’s really fulfilling. Just getting back down to basics,” Meghan, who welcomed daughter Lilibet with the duke in June 2021, added at the time.

Garner, for her part, is equally fond of the chickens that she has raised through the years.

“If there isn't a Chicken Lady Day 🐣, there really should be. Man, my life gets more exciting all the time,” the Alias alum wrote via Instagram in November 2017. “Meet one of our ladies, 🐔Regina George. Regina loves long walks, dehydrated bugs, and kale. Regina hates … carbs.”

Regina George — named after Rachel McAdams’ Mean Girls character — later died in April 2018 of natural causes. In addition to her chickens, Garner — who coparents three children with ex-husband Ben Affleck — is also a proud dog mom to Birdie.

Hilary Duff’s home is also full of children and various animals.

“We got [our] chicken coop before we got the last baby,” the Younger alum said during a January 2023 appearance on Live With Kelly and Ryan, referring to her and husband Matthew Koma’s daughter Mae, who was born in 2021. “We still like the chicken coop. We go out in the morning and give them fruit and stuff.”

Duff — who also shares daughter Banks, born in 2018, with Koma and son Luca, born in 2012, with ex Mike Comrie — and her brood have enjoyed eating farm-fresh eggs every day since adding the coop to their backyard.

“Some of [them] give us blue eggs and pink eggs,” the Disney Channel alum — who adopted dog Ham in late 2022 — revealed at the time. “It’s a lot of fun though. We love going out there. I never thought I was going to be raising kids in L.A., I’m from Texas, and so having the coop in the backyard is very [nice].”

Scroll below to meet the stars’ pet chickens — and see their special coops:

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Celebrities Who Have Chicken Coops at Home: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Chip and Joanna Gaines and More

An egg-cellent furry friend! Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Jennifer Garner and more celebrities have expanded their families with pet chickens.

“She’s always wanted chickens,” the Duke of Sussex said of his wife during their March 2021 CBS tell-all interview, giving a tour of their chicken coop.

Harry and the Duchess of Sussex — who moved to California in 2020 after stepping down from their duties as senior royals — added a home for their rescued chickens in “Archie’s Chick Inn.” (The coop’s name refers to their eldest son Archie, who was born in May 2019.)

The Suits alum — who noted that she just “[loves] rescuing” animals from chickens to her pet dogs — further gushed about their new residence in Montecito, California. “It’s so basic, but it’s really fulfilling. Just getting back down to basics,” Meghan, who welcomed daughter Lilibet with the duke in June 2021, added at the time.

Garner, for her part, is equally fond of the chickens that she has raised through the years.

“If there isn't a Chicken Lady Day 🐣, there really should be. Man, my life gets more exciting all the time,” the Alias alum wrote via Instagram in November 2017. “Meet one of our ladies, 🐔Regina George. Regina loves long walks, dehydrated bugs, and kale. Regina hates … carbs.”

Regina George — named after Rachel McAdams’ Mean Girls character — later died in April 2018 of natural causes. In addition to her chickens, Garner — who coparents three children with ex-husband Ben Affleck — is also a proud dog mom to Birdie.

Hilary Duff’s home is also full of children and various animals.

“We got [our] chicken coop before we got the last baby,” the Younger alum said during a January 2023 appearance on Live With Kelly and Ryan, referring to her and husband Matthew Koma’s daughter Mae, who was born in 2021. “We still like the chicken coop. We go out in the morning and give them fruit and stuff.”

Duff — who also shares daughter Banks, born in 2018, with Koma and son Luca, born in 2012, with ex Mike Comrie — and her brood have enjoyed eating farm-fresh eggs every day since adding the coop to their backyard.

“Some of [them] give us blue eggs and pink eggs,” the Disney Channel alum — who adopted dog Ham in late 2022 — revealed at the time. “It’s a lot of fun though. We love going out there. I never thought I was going to be raising kids in L.A., I’m from Texas, and so having the coop in the backyard is very [nice].”

Scroll below to meet the stars’ pet chickens — and see their special coops:

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Christina Haack

The Flip or Flop alum and husband Josh Hall, whom she wed in 2022, enjoy spending their downtime in the Tennessee countryside. The couple, who costar on HGTV’s Christina in the Country, frequently show off their backyard chickens via Instagram.

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Zach and Tori Roloff

The Little People, Big World stars’ sons, Jackson and Josiah, fed the family’s chickens in a February 2023 Instagram Story pic.

(Zach and Tori also share daughter Lilah.)

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Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

The Spare author and Meghan named their coop “Archie’s Chick Inn” in honor of their firstborn.

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Chip and Joanna Gaines

“A man and his chickens 🐓🐥,” the Fixer Upper design maven captioned a February 2023 Instagram video of Chip feeding the animals.

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Hilary Duff

In addition to her family’s chicken coop, Duff planted an herb garden in her backyard.

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Sophia Bush

The One Tree Hill alum started raising chicks Abby and G during the coronavirus pandemic. “And in the midst of all the things, we find our joy. The flock keeps growing,” Bush wrote via Instagram in July 2020.

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Jennifer Garner

The 13 Going on 30 star made her chickens a bug cake on their first birthday in July 2018.

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Tori Spelling

“I call her a pocket chicken because she loves to be held and go places with me. They know her by name at our local Michael's craft store,” the Beverly Hills, 90210 alum told Lucky magazine in July 2012 of chicken Coco. “I make her outfits to mimic my vintage dresses. She also has little caplets! I turn vintage brooches into fascinators for her. Right now I'm knitting her a chicken poncho for those cool summer nights.”

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Julia Roberts

Roberts and husband Danny Moder, who share three children, also raise a flock of chickens.

“My husband is a very healthy and environmentally minded person, so we grow food at our house,” the Runaway Bride star told InStyle in September 2014. “We raise chickens for eggs. We live in a world where really fresh produce and organic food are a financial luxury, so if we have that luxury I'm going to take advantage of it for my family.”

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Tiffani Thiessen

The Saved by the Bell alum and husband Brady Smith both grew up raising chickens and were interested in passing on the tradition to their own children.

“Brady designed a huge chicken condo and brought home many more chickens than I thought we had originally discussed,” Thiessen wrote on her blog in 2015. “[Our daughter] Harper was so excited so how do you say no, right? And my husband kept insisting that it’ll being easy. He would say, ‘Don’t worry babe, this is my thing. I’ll handle it all.’ So of course I went along with it. At first it was great. I loved how it taught our daughter about responsibility. She always had a love of animals but this took the cake. She adored these chickens. They became a part of our family quickly.”

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Lady Gaga

The “Shallow” singer and Taylor Kinney — who called off their engagement in July 2016 — built a spacious coop for their chickens one year earlier.

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Nicole Richie and Joel Madden

“I just started growing our own garden. I'm home a lot and we're growing our own fruits and vegetables,” Richie exclusively told Us Weekly in May 2014. “There's so many things in food right now and it's important for people to know and be educated on whatever they're putting into their body. I just convinced my husband to let me get chickens so we're getting hens!”

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Kristin Cavallari

The Hills alum wore a pair of heels to collect eggs in June 2019.