Chicken sayings.

[chickenshagg]

How many different sayings are there that are said in everyday life about chickens?

1: The chickens always come home to roost.
2: Don't count your chickens until they hatch.
3: There is a pecking order.
4: She rules the roost.
5: As protective as a mother hen.
6:
7:

 

[melodie_a]

Mad as a setting hen.

Mad as a wet hen. (don't know where this one came from, my hens don't mind being wet at all LOL)

 

[dmiravalle]

DH " quite hen pecking me"

or "you sound like a bunch of spent hens"

Never understood that one personally.

 

[goldenluver]

it's just chicken scratch

 

[melodie_a]

running around like a chicken with its head cut off. (terrible.. I know but my grandmother used to say it all the time)

 

[mississippifarmboy]

Rare as hen's teeth

Something to crow about

 

[chickenshagg]

Wife's friend just said what is perhaps the oldest saying of them all "What came first the chicken or the egg?"

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

"hes got chicken legs"

 

[HarlansHollowFarms]

cockey

 

[Laurajean]

Don't get your feathers all in a ruffle...