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Vice President JD Vance received a new chicken coop last week.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just any chicken coop.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the mansion of chicken coops.<\/p>\n

The McMansion, if you will.<\/p>\n

And it came from a business right here in North Carolina.<\/p>\n

Carolina Coops<\/u><\/a> in Creedmoor is owned by Matt and Gnon DuBoise, who create fancy chicken coops, goat houses and bunny bungalows.<\/p>\n

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Even quail coops.<\/p>\n

(Former Vice President Dan Quayle, you missed an opportunity, am I right?).<\/p>\n

Picture this, a Queen Anne-Victorian Revival build with a round turret. It\u2019s white with green accents.<\/p>\n

Who knew chicken coops could be so gosh darn pretty?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy not make a chicken coop beautiful?\u201d Matt DuBoise said. \u201cWhy not make it a destination? Why not make it functional art?\u201d<\/p>\n

DuBoise is a New Yorker, but he moved to Durham during the Great Recession and said he fell on hard times. He was an exterminator at the time and worked around a lot of construction sites.<\/p>\n

And he had no qualms about pulling scraps from their dumpsters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2018ve always been a builder,\u201d DuBoise said. \u201cI\u2019ve always built animal enclosures, and I found so much good material inside these dumpsters that I was like, let me just take this home and build some things.\u201d<\/p>\n

He wanted a chicken coop in his backyard.<\/p>\n

But DuBoise said he was working with garbage, and it wasn\u2019t pretty.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when it struck him: \u201cWhy not trim it out and give it something that is just a beautiful show-piece.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEver since then, every coop that we have designed, I want stunningly beautiful,\u201d DuBoise said.<\/p>\n

DuBoise\u2019s website gives you just a hint of the animal enclosures he\u2019s willing to build for his customers, with styles described as Gothic, Craftsman, Californian, American, penthouse, and tractor.<\/p>\n

His chicken coops are now all over the world, owned by billionaires and bus drivers, he said. And he donates coops to local schools too.<\/p>\n

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So how did one of his coops end up at the Naval Observatory, home of the vice president and his family?<\/p>\n

DuBoise said a customer learned that Second Lady Usha Vance was looking for a coop because her husband wanted chickens, and she put his office in touch with Carolina Coops.<\/p>\n

\u201cI got a call one day from a representative of the vice president\u2019s residence, saying, \u2018Hey, we\u2019d love to have a chicken coop here. You think you can help us out?\u2019 DuBoise recalled. \u201cAnd I said, \u2018Absolutely.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

DuBoise donated the coop to the Naval Observatory.<\/p>\n

He took inspiration for the coop from the turret on the Queen Anne-style home of the vice president. He said it is one-of-a-kind, though he suspects other customers will begin requesting it.<\/p>\n

DuBoise said the opportunity has been an emotional, \u201cpinch-me\u201d moment.<\/p>\n

It is such a great feeling that I get to be part of something where, in this case, starting with JD Vance to lead by example, like, \u2018Hey folks yes, I\u2019m the vice president of the United States, but I eat eggs, my kids eat eggs, why not have some baby chicks,\u2019\u201d DuBois said. \u201cI\u2019m so thankful to be a part of that, to help them get the message out there.\u201d<\/p>\n

He knows that his chicken coops aren\u2019t for everyone.<\/p>\n

Some old-school farmers don\u2019t understand what he\u2019s doing, he said, and he doesn\u2019t blame them, because farmers don\u2019t make a ton of money.<\/p>\n

But seeing his work at the Naval Observatory brought him happiness.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I stood there and looked at the coop, it represented 20 years of hell that I\u2019ve gone through as an entrepreneur, and what all my employees have done for Carolina Coops to make this successful, and truth be told, our customers are awesome,\u201d DuBoise said. \u201dIf it wasn\u2019t for our customers purchasing from us, supporting us, trusting us, we wouldn\u2019t have the money to pay for a coop that expensive to be able to donate it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTo me it\u2019s a success of everyone that believed in me, believed in this idea that, hey, why not make a chicken coop beautiful?\u201d<\/p>\n

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