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#1 03/10/2007 12:19 pm
- Nifty-Chicken
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Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
Hey Friends,
From the very first day I got chickens I've been noticing all the sayings that originated from chickens or raising chickens. Can ya'll help me come up with / find all the sayings out there? I thought for sure there would be a website with all of them listed, but couldn't find anything. By the way, I know these types of phrases have a name, but don't remember the term.
Here are the ones off the top of my head:
Cooped Up
Pecking Order
Run around like a chicken with your head cut off
Don’t count your chickens before they’re hatched
Rob - Married to my wife for 10 years and have two daughters, 7 and 4.
hens: Delaware, Gold Laced Wyandotte, Silver Laced Wyandotte and a couple Ameraucana mixes.
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#2 03/24/2007 8:32 pm
- cresty
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Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
"Hen pecked" comes to mind.....
When we got our first chickens, the two hens were pecking the little roo and my husband says, "Well, now I know what "hen pecked" means." 'Course now the little hens love the roo. 
Cresty
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#3 03/26/2007 2:11 pm
- cockadoodlemom
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Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
"I'll be on you faster than a chicken on a June bug"-what we were told when we were doing something wrong.
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Teresa
The Lord replied, “The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand, is when I carried you.”
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#4 03/29/2007 11:10 pm
- Nifty-Chicken
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Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
Dang I just love this list! I added it the the BYC site:
http://www.backyardchickens.com/fun-chicken-sayings.html
Rob - Married to my wife for 10 years and have two daughters, 7 and 4.
hens: Delaware, Gold Laced Wyandotte, Silver Laced Wyandotte and a couple Ameraucana mixes.
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#5 03/31/2007 10:32 am
- cockadoodlemom
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Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
Chickenfoot as in the dominoe game.....
("Lets play chickenfoot!")
I Love to talk and take care of my critters.
Teresa
The Lord replied, “The times when you have seen only one set of footprints in the sand, is when I carried you.”
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#6 04/12/2007 2:46 pm
Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
My dad used to say, well, he still does, "Sweatin' like a hen drawing rails" I guess those would be fence rails, as a lot of the fences where I grew up were made out of split cedar rails.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I --
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost
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#7 04/12/2007 3:32 pm
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Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
Oh ha ha hah!
I have one, but it might just be a local thing.
If you see someone doing something really stupid, or setting themselves up for something really dumb, you say "A chicken's head is only this wide (show fingers an inch or so apart) but they know enough to come in out of the rain."
Examples would be people preparing to climb a ladder that isn't secure, anything seen on the show "Jackass", investing in some risky scheme, getting involved with a risky person.
Also the idea of having a hen party--this is any group of women getting together for just about any purpose!
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#8 04/13/2007 11:53 am
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Super Chicken!!!!!
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#9 04/20/2007 3:07 am
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Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
"Don’t cackle if you haven’t laid."
OMG.... that soo cracked me up!!! awesome list!!!
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#10 04/20/2007 11:40 am
- zimmy
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Re: Popular Saying That Originated From Chickens
"Do the chickens have large talons?"-Napoleon 
Spice Girls.
Tamagotchis.
Back Street Boys.
Go 90s : D
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