Anyone else notice how many chicken terms we use in the English language? Pretty fun.

[Mflood]

As I've been reading up on chickens and now have been taking care of baby chicks for about a week, I'm noticing how often people refer to chickens, albeit unthinkingly, in their everyday speech. "He's chicken", "Who rules the roost?", "Why are you just sitting on your perch?". There are tons! I thought that it might be fun to insert some practical chicken humor! It is neat to see how our language developed over time. I imagine that many people owned chickens 150 years ago. Thus, chicken terminology flooded our language. Do any of you have chicken terms, phrases or references that you have observed?

 

[Angiebubs]

Not that i use these but here are a few more:

Birds of a feather flock together
Madder than a wet hen
Top of the pecking order
Ruffled feathers
Hen pecking *nagging"


I had made a list of these for a booth on urban back yard chicken keeping at our companys health fair-but cant seem to remember the others

 

[chickensfinally]

Scarcer/rarer than hen's teeth
Cock-eyed
Bring you "under her wing"
Got something to crow about
Describing gossiping women as "a bunch of old hens"
Not chickens per se, but describing something fast as "like sh*t through a goose"
Running around like a chicken with its head cut off! (Like most people who say it have ever see it!)

Oh this is fun