Chicks are flocking to the vice presidential residence.
Vice President JD Vance and his family are welcoming a dozen chickens to their rising brood, putting in a brand new customized coop at the US Naval Observatory.
And whereas the coop would possibly appear to be it belongs on Chip and Joanna Gaines’ Waco, Texas, farmhouse property, it was designed by Carolina Coops — at no value to taxpayers — to mirror the storied vice presidential residence, based on a supply acquainted with the matter. The coop attracts from architectural parts of the Queen Anne Victorian type of Number One Observatory Circle, the place vice presidents have lived with their households for many years.
The birds will come house to roost inside the massive, white, farm-inspired construction with an hooked up turret entryway, inexperienced door and fake slate roof. It’s surrounded by gravel and potted crops overlooking a fenced yard with a view of Washington’s National Cathedral, based on photographs shared with NCS.
Guests at a camp-themed occasion at the Vance house this weekend acquired a primary look at the coop, based on the supply acquainted, together with a 4-H demonstration from native college students.
“Seeing our work become part of a historic residence like the Naval Observatory is a milestone I will never forget,” stated Carolina Coops proprietor Matt DuBoise.
Once grown, the chicks will present farm-fresh eggs to the Naval Observatory — together with for Vance’s kids, whom he as soon as joked on the marketing campaign path “actually eat about 14 eggs every single morning.” That look at a grocery retailer drew some scrutiny at the time for his exaggeration, although Vance used the go to extra broadly to attract consideration to inflated egg costs.
The Vances are leaping into the more and more widespread city farming pattern, with 11 million American households elevating yard chickens in 2025, based on the American Pet Product Association. And they’re not the primary second family to introduce new animals to the Naval Observatory — second woman Karen Pence unveiled a yard beehive in 2017.
The chicks arrived simply earlier than one other new member of the vice president’s family: Vance and his spouse, second woman Usha Vance, are expecting their fourth baby this summer time, a child boy due in late July.
It additionally comes because the vice president is weighing a possible 2028 GOP presidential bid, which his spouse weighed in on in a current interview.
“I think JD would make a great anything he’d like to be,” Usha Vance informed ABC News’ Linsey Davis.
Pressed on whether or not she’d wish to see her husband be president, she stated, “I am not a particularly politically ambitious person. I would like to see him happy. I would like to see him making contributions that matter, and whatever form that takes is a form that I’ll be supportive of.”