There’s a really good chance these stars know more about chicken coops than you do

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And on that farm there was a … celebrity!

While these stars are often seen surrounded by the glitz and glam of Hollywood, when they’re at home with their animals, they’re not afraid to roll up their sleeves and get back to nature.

From Chris Pratt’s full working farm in Washington state to Amanda Seyfried’s upstate New York escape surrounded by donkeys, horses and a bearded dragon, see all the celebrities who enjoy the affection — and the eggs! — from their farm animals.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Over the last several years Arnold Schwarzenegger’s collection of farm animals has grown to include mini horses, pigs (including Arnold Snortzenegger, who recently accompanied him to a premiere) and a donkey.

“He has totally embraced this new kind of act of life,” his son Patrick said during an appearance on  SiriusXM’s Literally! With Rob Lowe. “It’s just … Doctor Doolittle meets this mid-life crisis, but happiness and calmer side of life. It’s really funny.”

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Chris Pratt

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In a video shared to Instagram in January 2018 as part of a mini food series he dubbed “What’s My Snack?,” the Guardians of the Galaxy actor shared that he had “been farming lamb for the past six months,” and added that his son Jack was enjoying it too: “I have found a new passion to add to my many others. #farmlife and jack loves it!”

In the years since, Pratt has continued to give a look at his farm in Washington state, Stillwater Ranch. From photos of son Jack helping to feed the cows to bragging about the wool sheared from his champion sheep to eulogizing his 700 lb. pig, Pratt (with his wife Katherine Schwarzenegger) is committed to that #farmlife — something he has in common with his father-in-law, Arnold!

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Ellen DeGeneres

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Ellen DeGeneres and wife Portia De Rossi are long known to be animal lovers, which is a good thing, because their new home in the British countryside has plenty of four-legged and feathered friends on site.

“We have house sheep,” DeGeneres posted about the many animals sharing her property in the Cotswolds.

Having previously shared videos about the massive upkeep on their property (“Some people have a dream of becoming a farmer. Clearly our dream was to become a landscape maintenance crew with a little farming on the side”) DeGeneres told fans that the sheep were brought in to help keep up the lawn, but “they keep escaping” — and visiting her house, apparently!

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Meghan Markle & Prince Harry

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In their March 2021 interview with Oprah Winfrey, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex gave fans a quick glimpse of “Archie’s Chick Inn,” their chicken coop that houses hens rescued from a factory farm named for their son Archie.

“Hi, girls!” Meghan said during the interview as she opened the door to the coop. She added to Winfrey, “I just love rescuing.” (And in fact, she rescued and rehabbed one of Ellen DeGeneres’ injured chickens!)

Markle also shared on her show With Love, Meghan that she maintains a large garden and beehives, from which she sources many ingredients for her family’s meals.

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Martha Stewart

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When Stewart adopted a four-year-old Persian cat earlier this year, she joined the ranks of the cookbook author’s many well-loved animals.

At home at Cantitoe Corners in Katonah, NY, situated on 153 acres, Stewart has her Chow Chow dogs, French bulldogs, Bengal cats, peacocks, chickens, horses, donkeys and geese.

But Stewart doesn’t just play at the farmer lifestyle — she actively plants and harvests her fruits and vegetables, drives heavy machinery around her multiple properties, and cares for the animals like her horse Bond, pictured above.

Martha Stewart driving a tractor.martha stewart/Instagram

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Carrie Underwood

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Carrie Underwood enjoys all her Nashville farm has to offer, including the ability to grow her own produce (which she cans herself) and to welcome livestock (as pets!) to her home — including a sweet baby sheep born in 2025 that she named for the latest American Idol winner, Jamal.

“Meet the newest members of the EH-OK Farm Fam!” Underwood wrote on Instagram in 2023 about a trio of donkeys (pictured with sons Jacob and Isaiah). “We’ve got a (pregnant) mama, a daddy and a little dude! In a little bit, 2 of them will go live with some friends down the road, but we promise to have lots of family reunions!!!!”

Underwood previously told ET Canada she was obsessed with her unique 2020 Christmas gift from husband Mike Fisher: two cows! “They’re my favorite animal. I love them, they make me so happy,” she said at the time, adding, “I don’t want them for any purpose, just to love them.”

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Jennifer Garner

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Over the years, Jennifer Garner has dubbed herself the “chicken lady,” as she was the proud owner of chickens, including Regina George, who sadly passed away in 2018, as well as Hennifer, who she introduced to the world in May 2018. She celebrated National Farmer’s Day in 2024 with a hair-raising encounter with one of her flock.

But Garner doesn’t just keep a coop in L.A. She bought her family farm in Oklahoma in 2017, and uses the crops grown on that land to contribute to her Once Upon a Farm line of food.

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Rick Ross

Rick Ross.Rick Ross/ Instagram

The rapper, who has now added “farmer” to his résumé, is the proud owner of a bison, cows and some horses on his 235-acre Fayetteville, Georgia estate.

“You just wish many others get to just try this. Try this for once. Try this for once. Just relax, let everything go,” he told PEOPLE in 2023 of life on the ranch. “Sit your f—ing phone down and just sit back and relax. Let’s feed the cows some carrots. Let’s talk to the horses. Let’s fish for four hours. Let’s do that. Let’s do that.”

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Kevin Bacon & Kyra Sedgwick

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Footloose star Kevin Bacon isn’t kid-ding around when it comes to farm life: Back in 2021, Bacon would often share clips of him serenading his pet goats on the farm he shares with wife Kyra Sedgwick in Connecticut, in a series on social media he matter-of-factly dubbed “#GoatSongs.”

More recently, Bacon shared a video of himself, Sedgwick and their daughter Sosie Bacon dancing and singing a rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s “Please, Please, Please” surrounding by their animals.

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Amanda Seyfried

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During a 2019 visit to The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Seyfried revealed she was living on a farm with a donkey, chickens and goats, in addition to “crops” like cucumbers and peppers.

“It was my dream,” she said. “I love animals and I love to be surrounded by them, and I wanted space. I love the countryside and the forest. I grew up in suburbia. I always wanted to ride horses and we didn’t have the funds to do that. I do ride horses now.”

In 2024, Seyfried told Forbes that moving to her farm in upstate New York — and remaining there after having children — “was the best decision for privacy, peace and nature.”

The star’s farm is now home to horses, chickens, cats, goats, donkeys, ducks, a bearded dragon and of course, her teenage dog Finn.

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Serena Williams & Alexis Ohanian

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Tennis superstar Serena Williams and her Reddit co-founder husband Alexis Ohanian are the proud parents to daughters Olympia and Adira — and a few farm animals!

In 2021, Ohanian shared that Olympia named their original quartet “Bum Bum, Chickaletta, Minnie [and] Daisy”; more recently, the couple took Gayle King on a tour of their grounds to see the chickens and their cows, including Antonio Enrique Cortez Leche. “I let the kids do all the names,” Ohanian said.

Williams also recently revealed that she and friend Meghan Markle share gardening tips with one another, now that Williams has gotten into gardening and beekeeping like her pal.

“I’m always like, ‘Girl, what are you doing today?’” Williams told Time. “So we’re trading recipes.”

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Nicole Richie

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Back in 2017, Richie told Architectural Digest that she was the proud mom to eight chickens named Tallulah, Philomena, Mama Cass, Sunny, Daisy, Ivy, Sibby and Dixie Chick.

“I raised them inside my house for about six weeks, and then it was time for them to have a coop,” she told the outlet, adding that her chickens’ home was a replica of her own. “Martha Stewart said it best: Chickens just give, give, give, and there’s nothing bad about them,” Richie gushed. “They are the easiest animals to take care of, they are so much fun for kids, and they just give me beautiful colored eggs every day.”

In 2021, Richie took PEOPLE inside the coop and said she loves to “read in there … and just hang.” She added, “they’ve definitely changed my life.”

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Hilarie Burton & Jeffrey Dean Morgan

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The couple, who married in October 2019, own Mischief Farm together, a “real farm” that includes the dynamic duo, a donkey and emu named Jack and Diane; they have a website that introduces you to the animals and their humans.

Hilarie Burton’s One Tree Hill and Christmas Wish costar Tyler Hilton told PEOPLE in 2019, “It’s a real farm! It’s not like a Hollywood farm either, where an actor’s like, ‘Oh, I’m gonna have a farm’ and they get an acre and a pig. This is a farm.“

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Nikki Reed & Ian Somerhalder

The Twilight alumna and husband Ian Somerhalder adopted two baby cows in 2021 after a trip to a local farm where their daughter Bodhi, bonded with the animals.

“They’re super sweet and so silly. There’s something so special about baby cows, they’re goofy,” Reed said in a video interview for PEOPLE’s 2021 Beautiful Issue. “They’re both calves. Lily is the girl and Mooso is the boy … My daughter was so attached to Lily, and I wasn’t expecting to walk away with cows at all! So that was the start of the journey.”

The journey now includes 17 animals in all, according to an interview with Observer, including chickens, goats and dogs, and her family farm produces 40 kids of fruits and vegetables.

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Adrian Grenier

Adrian Grenier.Adrian Grenier/Instagram

After leaving the Hollywood life behind in 2020 and moving to a farm outside of Austin, Texas, Adrian Grenier said he had hoped to “create a wildlife sanctuary” and have “llamas or alpacas, maybe some goats – not for a livestock operation but to keep the grass down.”

Just before Christmas in 2021, it appeared as though his hopes had come alive when he posted this shot getting up close and personal with a llama in a post he captioned: “Kiss-mas came early for me this year…”

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Kelis

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After listing her $1.9 million L.A. home, the singer told Architectural Digest in 2018 the reason behind her decision. “We’re buying a farm, so that’s why we’re moving,” she said. “Now that I’ve got these two boys [sons Knight and Shepherd], I want to control a little bit more how we eat.”

Now, rocking #farmer in her Instagram bio, the singer is giving a glimpse into her farm life, recently posting a video with her chickens Fannie Lou and Malcolm X.

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Marcus Mumford & Carey Mulligan

Marcus Mumford and Carey Mulligan posed together in April for a Comic Relief fundraiser.Marcus Mumford and Carey Mulligan – Comic Relief via Getty

During a chat on Live! with Kelly and Ryan in 2021, Carey Mulligan confirmed the family has a “working farm” outside of London, complete with cows, sheep and chickens.

When asked if she milks the cows, Mulligan clarified it’s not a dairy farm — though added she did learn to milk cows for her role in 2015’s Far from the Madding Crowd.

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Zayn Malik

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While sitting down for his first interview in six years, Zayn Malik chatted with Alex Cooper on an episode of Call Her Daddy and opened up a bit about his life in Pennsylvania.

As part of his quieter life outside of the hustle and bustle of a city, Malik said he had six chickens, three dogs, three cats and three turtles. When asked if he’s named them all, Malik said “No, I haven’t. Not this time. I got too attached last time and it made me really sad.”

Malik went on to explain that after bringing one of his former chickens to the vet and later having it die in his arms, he’s had to keep a little bit of emotional distance from his new brood.

“I’ve got new chickens now,” he added. “And they’re all healthy and stuff, but I didn’t name them for that reason.”

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Brian Austin Green

“I built a chicken coop over the summer. And now I’m currently building a vegetable garden,” Green told ET in December 2020. “[I thought], ‘We’re forced to eat at home more, so let me figure out a way of making that a cooler experience for the kids.’ “

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Tiffani Thiessen

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The former Saved by the Bell star keeps chickens, making for some farm fresh eggs at her L.A. home. She even has enough to spare!

Thiessen dropped off fresh eggs to her former Saved by the Bell costar, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, when he ran out amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The actress set up a blue carton of eggs on her front steps next to a note that read, “fresh butt nuggets for the Gosselaar family, love the Smiths.”

She also includes them in her holiday plans; have you ever seen chickens help carve a pumpkin?

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Chip & Joanna Gaines

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The Gaines family have a farm (E-I-E-I-O … sorry, we had to) and on that farm they have a whole lot of piglets! “Crew has become one with the litter,” Chip wrote on Twitter in 2021 of the couple’s youngest son getting down and dirty with the baby pigs. “#farmLife,” he added.

In 2023, Joanna gave a glimpse into a a day in their lives in Texas, showing her husband spending some time in the chicken coop.

“A man and his chickens,” she captioned the video.

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Elizabeth Hurley

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In an October 2019 chat with PEOPLE, Elizabeth Hurley revealed she used to have “a small organic farm we ran ourselves,” but has since scaled back to plant life plus domestic pets – and alpacas. “Three of them are friendly,” she joked about being able to feed them by hand.

Previously, the actress had owned a 400-acre organic farm in Gloucestershire that housed chickens, sheep and other animals. “People always imagine me with perfect hair. But that’s not who I am,” Hurley once said. “The first time he saw me in the country, my husband found me in wellies, covered in mud.”

Hurley recently spent some time on a farm during a Easter weekend visit with boyfriend Billy Ray Cyrus.

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Yolanda Hadid

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Considering the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alumna has long been on a health kick, it’s no surprise the former model is a proud owner of chickens. “Happy [chicks],” she wrote on Instagram in 2017, adding the hashtag “#FarmLife.”

In more recent posts, Hadid is seen hanging out with a horse and some goats alongside her granddaughter Khai and in another short clip, her daughter Gigi is seen riding a horse alongside her daughter.

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Tori Spelling

Tori Spelling has shared lots with fans about her family’s chicken coop (and has taken her chickens to award shows), and in 2017, revealed that she had added a new member to her family: a pig named Nutmeg.

In 2023, the star’s ex-husband Dean McDermott said that the pig and chickens were contributors to the unraveling of their marriage, saying that the pig and multiple dogs were sleeping in their bedroom and a chicken lived in the bathroom.

“I created a healthy boundary for myself and I said, ‘I can’t do this. I can’t live and sleep in this kind of condition,’ ” he told the Daily Mail. “I drew that boundary for myself and moved to another room and things just progressed from there. There were no efforts to sort of remedy the problem to get back into the room.”