Justin Theroux gives eggs as gifts.

The 'Leftovers' actor and fiancee Jennifer Aniston keep chickens at their Los Angeles home but he admits his kind gesture actually does him a favour as the birds lay more eggs than they are able to use.

Justin Theroux's pet chickens lay so many eggs, he gives most of them away to friends

Speaking to friend Chelsea Handler on 'Chelsea Lately', he said: "We have chickens at the house. There's one cock in the house. I don't want them keeping me awake in the morning.

"We have too many of them. We have about 10 chickens and each of them lays a couple a day, so we have too many eggs. But they always think we're being really sweet, like this farm and table thing where you bring a bunch of eggs. We're just slipping on eggs at the house."

The 42-year-old actor recently admitted his life has "changed a lot" since he started dating the former 'Friends' actress three years ago, and he initially struggled to cope with the scrutiny their romance receives.

He said: "More people are like, 'Hey, man!' And I don't think that's from my role in 'John Adams'. But it only changed as much as I engaged with it, and I learned very quickly: don't ever engage with it. It was a learning curve, but it wasn't as traumatic as you might expect.

"It's [press coverage is] just annoying. Occasionally you'll get a stewardess congratulating you, on, I don't know, whatever, some three-headed baby we just had."

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