You Can't Help But Crack Up at These Jokes about Chickens

Whether you live in the sticks or a gated community in the suburbs, chances are you’ve got chickens on the brain. You’re not alone—more than 12 million Americans are tending to happy chickens in their backyards at this very moment, according to the American Pet Products Association. That means you very likely know someone who has adopted a flock, you’ve personally enjoyed the fruits of a friend of a friend’s chicken’s labor, or you’ve got chicks of your very own set up in a super cool chicken coop that’s the talk of the town.

There are tons of reasons more and more folks are adding flocks to their homesteads. After all, chickens come with a bunch of im-peck-able perks: Fresh eggs in an assortment of beautiful colors, automatic pest control, waste that can contribute to the compost pile or fertilizer for the garden, and the opportunity to come up with some pretty egg-ceptional hen names.

Even if you’re not currently a card-carrying member of the cluck-owning clique, you can still enjoy some chicken-inspired chuckles. Turns out, fowl are fodder for jokes that go way beyond the old, “Why did the chicken cross the road?” Here, we have more than three dozen jokes you can tell at any affair, be it a hen party or a cock-tail party.

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Egg-cellent Chicken Jokes

  • What do you call a prankster chicken? A practical yolker.

  • What do you call a chicken who marches to the beat of her own drum? Eggcentric.

  • What does a possessed chicken lay? Deviled eggs.

  • Why don’t chickens practice stand-up comedy on their eggs? They don’t want to crack them up.

  • What’s the meanest thing you can say to a chicken? Go suck an egg

  • Why did the chicken only lay eggs in the winter? She’s no spring chicken.

  • What’s a chicken’s favorite book? “Great Eggs-peck-tations.”

  • What did the chicken say when the farmer came to collect? “Leggo my eggos.”

  • What’s a chicken’s favorite vegetable? Eggplant

Jokes About Chicken Coops

  • What kind of car does a chicken drive? A Coop DeVille.

  • What Bob Dylan song makes hens happiest in the coop? “Lay Lady Lay.”

  • Why did the chicken go on vacation? She was tired of being cooped up at home.

  • What’s a chicken’s favorite dessert? Coop-cakes.

Pop-Culture Chicken Jokes

  • Why did Mozart resent chickens? They go on and on about “Bach, Bach, Bach.”

  • What do rhyming chickens like to perform? Slam poultry.

  • What kind of films do hens most like? Chick flicks.

  • What do chickens do when they hear Nelly? Shake their tail feathers.

  • What’s a chicken’s favorite trilogy? “Lord of the Wings.”

  • What band do hens like best? The Chicks.

  • What TV drama do chickens like to watch? “Nip/Cluck.”

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Silly Chicken Jokes

  • What do negative roosters say? Cock-a-doodle-don’t.

  • Why did the chicken go to jail? She committed fowl play.

  • What did the chicken go to the gym? To work on its pecks.

  • How did the chicken prepare for a test? She didn’t. She winged it.

  • What does the chicken order at a bar? A cocktail.

  • What do you call a chicken in a hot tub? Soup.

  • What makes chickens good at percussion? Drumsticks.

  • What do you call an overly confident chicken? Cocky.

  • What does a hungry chicken say? “I’m feeling peckish.”

  • Why do chickens make the worst dinner companions? They’re cheep.

  • What do chickens do when they see KFC on the table? They kick the bucket.

  • What makes chickens talented banjo players? They’re natural-born pluckers.

  • How does a chicken like to make cakes? From scratch.

  • What you call a hen’s deep thoughts? Chicken nuggets.

  • What's a chicken's greatest fear? A poultry-geist.

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