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Chicken Puns - It's Your Clucky Day!

A page of chicken puns for the poultry fanciers. 

Hen time this will form an eggcellent collection of corny chicken-related jokes.

Although it ain't much to crow about there's no need to get broody.  If we peck about long enough we'll find something to get our beaks into.

​Here are the puns.

Chickens Gifts >>

Puns

another egg? - feeling broody
bald rooster has a comb over

boxing cockerel - bantamweight

chicken actors - fowl play
comic hen gave the others a roosting
depressed hen - just can't coop


​don't push that chicken - pullet
glasses for shortsighted hens - pecktacles

hot coop - it's broiling in here

hungry chicken - peckish

lazy chicken - layabout
perfectly turned out - impeckable

pestered by cock - wattle the heck?
reading material - chick lit

stuck outside the run - just can't coop anymore

​swearing chicken - fowl language

​threatened by chicken - hendangered

Jokes

Why do I get paid chicken-feed?
It's a poultry amount

Why did the chicken cross the road?
It didn't, it's a Rhode Island chicken

Why do you get all the corn?
Just clucky I guess

What do you call a chicken celebration?
A Hen Party

Hen Party Gifts >>

Expressions

As scarce as hen's teeth - non-existent
Don't count your chickens before they hatch - it ain't happened till it happens
Pecking order - establish the top chicken
​When your chickens come home to roost - consequences of your actions

Famous Chickens

Dixie Chicks - band
Bradley Cooper - actor
​Russell Crowe - actor

​Tim Henman - tennis player
Cluck Norris - martial artist
​​Gregory Peck - actor

Film and TV

Chicken Run - Aardman Animation
First Brood - Rambo, Stallone
Rooster Cogburn - John Wayne

Chicken Keeping Gifts >>

Social Chickens

eHay - second hand nest building
FlockBook - keep up with friends and family
InstaLay - chicken selfies

LinkedHen - career moves in chicken world
OnlyChicks - for chicken fans
YouCrow - speak to the world

Songs

Ain't Nobody Here But Us Chickens - Louis Jordan
Chick, Chick, Chick, Chick, Chicken - Lay A Little Egg For Me
Do The Funky Chicken - Rufus Thomas

Lay Lady Lay - Bob Dylan
​The Chicken Song - Spitting Image

Words

Handy words for making your own chicken puns.

beak, broiler, brood, capon, chick, chicken, cluck, cock, cockerel, comb, coop, crop, crow, hen, flock, fowl, lay, layers, peck, perch, poultry, pullet, roost, rooster, spurs, wattle

Roost Time

That's enough pecking about.

There was some good corn and not many squabbles.

Now it's time to get back on my perch and settle down for the night.

​Set that cockerel alarm for 4am.