Josephine: What do you get when you cross a rooster and a duck?
Josie: A bird that wakes you at the ‘quack’ of dawn.
The chicken is the most common species of bird on Earth. There are presently about two chickens for every one human in the world.
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Maggie: What has feathers and writes?
Margie: A ballpoint hen.
The morning wakeup call heard on farms is male chickens, or roosters, crowing, “Cock-a-doodle-doo!” The female chicken is called a hen and she says, “Cluck, cluck, cluck!” The young chickens are called chicks and they say, “Cheep, cheep, cheep!”
“Chickens not only are capable of learning, they are also capable of teaching one another. It turns out that chickens are not as dumb as popular mythology makes them out to be.” -Tom Regan: “Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights” (2004), chapter 6, page 105
“The chicken probably came before the egg, because someone would have had to set on the egg.” -Author Unknown
Rose: Why do roosters never get rich?
Pearl: Because they work for chicken feed.
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Chickens Facts
- Chickens are domestic poultry, or birds kept by humans for their eggs, meat, feathers, as live ornaments in elaborate gardens, or as pets.
- The plural of chicken is chickens.
- The sounds made by adult chickens are called clucking and cackling.
- An adult male chicken is called a rooster or a cock.
- The sound made by a rooster or a cock is called crowing.
- A young male chicken is called a cockerel.
- An adult female chicken is called a hen.
- A young female chicken is called a pullet.
- A young chicken, either male or female, is called a chick.
- A group of chickens is called a flock.
- A group of chicks hatched in the same setting time by a single hen is called a brood.
- The sound made by chicks is called cheeping or peeping.
Marvin: What signs would you find on the ‘In’ and ‘Out’ boxes on the desk of a poultry farmer?
Melvin: ‘Cock-A-Doodle-Do’ and ‘Cock-A-Doodle-Done.’
Margaret: What do you call a hen that counts eggs?
Rolland: A mathemachicken.
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“A chicken doesn’t stop scratching just because the worms are scarce.” -John Peers
Josie: A bird that wakes you at the ‘quack’ of dawn.
The chicken is the most common species of bird on Earth. There are presently about two chickens for every one human in the world.
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Maggie: What has feathers and writes?
Margie: A ballpoint hen.
The morning wakeup call heard on farms is male chickens, or roosters, crowing, “Cock-a-doodle-doo!” The female chicken is called a hen and she says, “Cluck, cluck, cluck!” The young chickens are called chicks and they say, “Cheep, cheep, cheep!”
“Chickens not only are capable of learning, they are also capable of teaching one another. It turns out that chickens are not as dumb as popular mythology makes them out to be.” -Tom Regan: “Empty Cages: Facing the Challenge of Animal Rights” (2004), chapter 6, page 105
“The chicken probably came before the egg, because someone would have had to set on the egg.” -Author Unknown
Rose: Why do roosters never get rich?
Pearl: Because they work for chicken feed.
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Chickens Facts
- Chickens are domestic poultry, or birds kept by humans for their eggs, meat, feathers, as live ornaments in elaborate gardens, or as pets.
- The plural of chicken is chickens.
- The sounds made by adult chickens are called clucking and cackling.
- An adult male chicken is called a rooster or a cock.
- The sound made by a rooster or a cock is called crowing.
- A young male chicken is called a cockerel.
- An adult female chicken is called a hen.
- A young female chicken is called a pullet.
- A young chicken, either male or female, is called a chick.
- A group of chickens is called a flock.
- A group of chicks hatched in the same setting time by a single hen is called a brood.
- The sound made by chicks is called cheeping or peeping.
Marvin: What signs would you find on the ‘In’ and ‘Out’ boxes on the desk of a poultry farmer?
Melvin: ‘Cock-A-Doodle-Do’ and ‘Cock-A-Doodle-Done.’
Margaret: What do you call a hen that counts eggs?
Rolland: A mathemachicken.
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“A chicken doesn’t stop scratching just because the worms are scarce.” -John Peers
The Poultries
Let’s think of eggs.
They have no legs.
Chickens come from eggs,
But they have no legs.
The plot thickens;
Eggs come from chickens,
But have no legs under ‘em.
What a conundrum!
By Ogden Nash
Let’s think of eggs.
They have no legs.
Chickens come from eggs,
But they have no legs.
The plot thickens;
Eggs come from chickens,
But have no legs under ‘em.
What a conundrum!
By Ogden Nash
Marvin: How do you stop a rooster from crowing early in the morning?
Irving: Eat him the night before.
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Does a baby chicken, called a chick, breathe inside the egg, and if so, how? An eggshell may look solid, but it actually has about 8,000 pores that are large enough for oxygen to flow in and carbon dioxide to flow out. This was proven in 1863 when John Davy of Edinburgh, Scotland pumped pressurized air into an underwater egg and watched as thousands of tiny air bubbles appeared. The head of a chicken develops at the large end of the egg. About three days before hatching, the baby chick punctures the air cell at the base of the egg with its sharp egg tooth (a tiny, horn-shaped point on top of its beak) and breathes its first gulp of air, while still inside the egg. As soon as it can breathe, it can peep. Peeping and tapping can be heard from inside the egg as the chick chips a hole in the egg to make its way into the outside world.
Grace: What animals go, “Buzz-cluck, buzz-cluck”?
George: Electric chickens!
The Rooster
The farm is in a flurry.
The rooster caught the flu.
His cock-a-doodle-doo
Has changed to cock-a doodle-choo!
By Author Unknown
Eunice: What type of jokes do chickens like best?
Eustice: Corny ones!
A typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year. If 12 eggs are in a dozen, how many eggs does a typical hen lay in a year?
Patrice: How does a chicken put together a meal?
Richard: It starts from scratch.
A hen produces one egg about every 34 hours. If you have a family of six and you want two eggs, bacon, hash-brown potatoes, and buttered toast with jam for breakfast every morning for each of you, how many hens would you need in your flock?
Alice: Why was the chicken sent to the principal’s office?
Alvin: For pecking on the other students.
Chickens can fly better than emus, kiwis, ostriches, and penguins combined. Yet, chickens cannot fly as well as most other species of birds because they have a heavy body weight in proportion to their wingspans. The world record for a nonstop chicken flight is a little more than 210 meters (690 feet) accomplished in 13 seconds. Chicken keepers sometimes clip the wing feathers of chickens to prevent them from flying over fences, which the chickens probably attempt to do because it is in their nature to try to get out to go cross the road . . .
Irving: Eat him the night before.
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Does a baby chicken, called a chick, breathe inside the egg, and if so, how? An eggshell may look solid, but it actually has about 8,000 pores that are large enough for oxygen to flow in and carbon dioxide to flow out. This was proven in 1863 when John Davy of Edinburgh, Scotland pumped pressurized air into an underwater egg and watched as thousands of tiny air bubbles appeared. The head of a chicken develops at the large end of the egg. About three days before hatching, the baby chick punctures the air cell at the base of the egg with its sharp egg tooth (a tiny, horn-shaped point on top of its beak) and breathes its first gulp of air, while still inside the egg. As soon as it can breathe, it can peep. Peeping and tapping can be heard from inside the egg as the chick chips a hole in the egg to make its way into the outside world.
Grace: What animals go, “Buzz-cluck, buzz-cluck”?
George: Electric chickens!
The Rooster
The farm is in a flurry.
The rooster caught the flu.
His cock-a-doodle-doo
Has changed to cock-a doodle-choo!
By Author Unknown
Eunice: What type of jokes do chickens like best?
Eustice: Corny ones!
A typical hen lays 19 dozen eggs a year. If 12 eggs are in a dozen, how many eggs does a typical hen lay in a year?
Patrice: How does a chicken put together a meal?
Richard: It starts from scratch.
A hen produces one egg about every 34 hours. If you have a family of six and you want two eggs, bacon, hash-brown potatoes, and buttered toast with jam for breakfast every morning for each of you, how many hens would you need in your flock?
Alice: Why was the chicken sent to the principal’s office?
Alvin: For pecking on the other students.
Chickens can fly better than emus, kiwis, ostriches, and penguins combined. Yet, chickens cannot fly as well as most other species of birds because they have a heavy body weight in proportion to their wingspans. The world record for a nonstop chicken flight is a little more than 210 meters (690 feet) accomplished in 13 seconds. Chicken keepers sometimes clip the wing feathers of chickens to prevent them from flying over fences, which the chickens probably attempt to do because it is in their nature to try to get out to go cross the road . . .
The Chicken Family
Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,
See the chicken family all in a row.
The mommy chicken, she is called a hen.
Cluck, cluck, cluck, and off she goes.
Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,
See the chicken family all in a row.
See the daddy chicken, he is called a rooster.
Cock-a-doodle-doo and off he goes.
Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,
See the chicken family all in a row.
See the baby chickens, they are called chicks.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, and off they go.
By Author Unknown
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Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,
See the chicken family all in a row.
The mommy chicken, she is called a hen.
Cluck, cluck, cluck, and off she goes.
Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,
See the chicken family all in a row.
See the daddy chicken, he is called a rooster.
Cock-a-doodle-doo and off he goes.
Down in the barnyard, early in the morning,
See the chicken family all in a row.
See the baby chickens, they are called chicks.
Cheep, cheep, cheep, and off they go.
By Author Unknown
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Russell: Who tells the best chicken jokes?
Randall: Comedihens!
Three Hens
When three hens go a-walking, they
Observe this order and array:
The first hen walks in front, and then
Behind her walks the second hen,
While, move they slow or move they fast,
You find the third hen walking last.
By Henry Johnstone
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City Slicker: I would like to buy a chicken.
Farmer: Want a pullet?
City Slicker: Not really - I would rather carry it.
Before running out and getting chickens, first find out about local ordinances, or laws, which may stipulate if you can keep chickens or not, how many you can have, and any other restrictions. You may be able to keep chickens only if you heed certain rules; for example, you may not be able to have crowing roosters and cackling hens if there are noise ordinances, and you will want to learn how to keep chickens from being too loud before getting any of them. You may be able to give chickens the run of your property (free-range chickens) or you may be required to keep them in enclosures (coops and pens and runs).
Garth: Why do people go to chicken shows?
Jethro: For the hentertainment.
Chickens are the closest living relatives of the now-extinct yet still terrifying carnivorous Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur.
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Donald: What was the hen doing at the bank?
Ronald: Opening a chicken account.
As omnivores, or animals that eat plants and animals, chickens have a varied diet. They will eat just about anything, including beetles, worms, corn, oats, snails, slugs, seeds, fruit, vegetables, acorns, kitchen scraps, and many other foods. They also swallow tiny stones to help them digest their food. They have a well-developed gizzard, which is a part of the stomach containing the tiny stones that grind up their food.
Marla: Where do tough chickens come from?
Darla: Hard-boiled eggs.
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Chickens communicate with each other using calls, or vocalizations. Calls alert other chickens to specific items of interest. Chickens have one call used to let other chickens know a threat is in the sky, such as a hawk, a threat is on the ground, such as a snake, or yet another call to excitedly let other chickens know they have found food.
Lucky: Why does a chicken coop have only two doors?
Chance: Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.
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“i have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): “archy’s life of mehitabel, random thoughts by archy” (1933), using lower case letters and no punctuation, in the style of the fictional writer character he created
Henny: What sound does a chicken crossed with a cow make?
Penny: “Cock-a-doodle-moo-ooo!”
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Are there any wild chickens? Chickens were domesticated from wild junglefowl, mostly from the Red Junglefowl, with some domestic chickens also having Grey Junglefowl, Sri Lankan Junglefowl, and Javanese Green Junglefowl in their ancestry. Wild junglefowl are presently abundant and thriving, though at increasing risk of becoming less wild as they encounter feral and stray domestic chickens at the borders between their native habitats and human civilization.
Randall: Comedihens!
Three Hens
When three hens go a-walking, they
Observe this order and array:
The first hen walks in front, and then
Behind her walks the second hen,
While, move they slow or move they fast,
You find the third hen walking last.
By Henry Johnstone
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City Slicker: I would like to buy a chicken.
Farmer: Want a pullet?
City Slicker: Not really - I would rather carry it.
Before running out and getting chickens, first find out about local ordinances, or laws, which may stipulate if you can keep chickens or not, how many you can have, and any other restrictions. You may be able to keep chickens only if you heed certain rules; for example, you may not be able to have crowing roosters and cackling hens if there are noise ordinances, and you will want to learn how to keep chickens from being too loud before getting any of them. You may be able to give chickens the run of your property (free-range chickens) or you may be required to keep them in enclosures (coops and pens and runs).
Garth: Why do people go to chicken shows?
Jethro: For the hentertainment.
Chickens are the closest living relatives of the now-extinct yet still terrifying carnivorous Tyrannosaurus Rex dinosaur.
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Donald: What was the hen doing at the bank?
Ronald: Opening a chicken account.
As omnivores, or animals that eat plants and animals, chickens have a varied diet. They will eat just about anything, including beetles, worms, corn, oats, snails, slugs, seeds, fruit, vegetables, acorns, kitchen scraps, and many other foods. They also swallow tiny stones to help them digest their food. They have a well-developed gizzard, which is a part of the stomach containing the tiny stones that grind up their food.
Marla: Where do tough chickens come from?
Darla: Hard-boiled eggs.
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Chickens communicate with each other using calls, or vocalizations. Calls alert other chickens to specific items of interest. Chickens have one call used to let other chickens know a threat is in the sky, such as a hawk, a threat is on the ground, such as a snake, or yet another call to excitedly let other chickens know they have found food.
Lucky: Why does a chicken coop have only two doors?
Chance: Because if it had four doors, it would be a chicken sedan.
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“i have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race” -Don Marquis (Donald Robert Perry ‘Don’ Marquis (1878 - 1937)): “archy’s life of mehitabel, random thoughts by archy” (1933), using lower case letters and no punctuation, in the style of the fictional writer character he created
Henny: What sound does a chicken crossed with a cow make?
Penny: “Cock-a-doodle-moo-ooo!”
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Are there any wild chickens? Chickens were domesticated from wild junglefowl, mostly from the Red Junglefowl, with some domestic chickens also having Grey Junglefowl, Sri Lankan Junglefowl, and Javanese Green Junglefowl in their ancestry. Wild junglefowl are presently abundant and thriving, though at increasing risk of becoming less wild as they encounter feral and stray domestic chickens at the borders between their native habitats and human civilization.
Classified advertisement seen in a rural newspaper: Will trade a rooster that crows at 4 o’clock for one that crows at 5 o’clock.
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Trevor: What animal makes the sound, “Cluck-bubble, cluck-bubble!”?
Veronica: A chicken of the sea.
‘Alektorophobia’ is a persistent fear of chickens. Chickens are small creatures, yet they can unleash a great amount of fierceness on anyone whom they suspect may be a threat to themselves, their young, or their eggs. Roosters have sharp pointed spurs on their legs designed specifically to inflict injury, and both hens and roosters come equipped with sharp beaks. This phobia makes good sense!
Annette: What book tells you all about chickens?
Nettie: A hencyclopedia.
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Gregory: What do you get when you cross a chicken with a Martian?
Olaf: An eggstraterrestrial!
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Trevor: What animal makes the sound, “Cluck-bubble, cluck-bubble!”?
Veronica: A chicken of the sea.
‘Alektorophobia’ is a persistent fear of chickens. Chickens are small creatures, yet they can unleash a great amount of fierceness on anyone whom they suspect may be a threat to themselves, their young, or their eggs. Roosters have sharp pointed spurs on their legs designed specifically to inflict injury, and both hens and roosters come equipped with sharp beaks. This phobia makes good sense!
Annette: What book tells you all about chickens?
Nettie: A hencyclopedia.
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Gregory: What do you get when you cross a chicken with a Martian?
Olaf: An eggstraterrestrial!
The Hen
The hen is a ferocious fowl,
She pecks you till she makes you howl.
And all the time she flaps her wings,
And says the most insulting things.
And when you try to take her eggs,
She bites pieces from your legs.
The only safe way to get these,
Is to creep on your hands and knees.
In the meanwhile a friend must hide,
And jump out on the other side.
And then you snatch the eggs and run,
While she pursues the other one.
The difficulty is to find
A trusty friend who will not mind.
By Alfred Douglas
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The hen is a ferocious fowl,
She pecks you till she makes you howl.
And all the time she flaps her wings,
And says the most insulting things.
And when you try to take her eggs,
She bites pieces from your legs.
The only safe way to get these,
Is to creep on your hands and knees.
In the meanwhile a friend must hide,
And jump out on the other side.
And then you snatch the eggs and run,
While she pursues the other one.
The difficulty is to find
A trusty friend who will not mind.
By Alfred Douglas
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Percival: How does the little red hen bake a cake?
Henrietta: From scratch!
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Chickens need a coop (chicken house) in which to lay their eggs in nest boxes and in which to roost (sleep) on narrow wood boards placed horizontally above the floor. A coop should keep them warm in Winter and shaded in Summer, and keep them safe from predators. Adjacent to the coop should be an open fenced-in area (pen or run) in which the chickens can be watered and fed during warm weather and in which they can get exercise and exposure to sunlight.
Gwyneth: What did the mother hen say to her baby chick?
Gwendolyn: “You’re eggstra special!”
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Chickens are versatile animals: they can be general-purpose chickens, egg producers (layers), dinner (fryers), insect controllers, pets, feather filling for pillows and mattresses, mother chickens (setting hens), show chickens (competition), and even alarm clock roosters. Which kind do you want?
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Chickens are scientifically classified as follows:
- Kingdom: Animalia (animals).
- Phylum: Chordata (animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a tail for at least some period of their life cycle).
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (animals with backbones).
- Class: Aves (Birds).
- Order: Galliformes.
- Family: Phasianidae.
- Genus: Gallus.
- Species: Gallus domesticus.
- Scientific name: Gallus gallus domesticus.
Lillian: Why was the chicken afraid of the chicken?
Starlet: Because it was chicken.
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Chickens have many predators, or animals that want to eat them or their eggs. Predators of chickens include skunks, owls, raccoons, foxes, hawks, opossums, bobcats, snakes, weasels, dogs, and humans. For this reason, chickens often need coops and pens for protection.
Lucy: Where are you likely to find the chicken in a grocery store?
Lucille: Standing in the eggspress line.
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Henrietta: From scratch!
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Chickens need a coop (chicken house) in which to lay their eggs in nest boxes and in which to roost (sleep) on narrow wood boards placed horizontally above the floor. A coop should keep them warm in Winter and shaded in Summer, and keep them safe from predators. Adjacent to the coop should be an open fenced-in area (pen or run) in which the chickens can be watered and fed during warm weather and in which they can get exercise and exposure to sunlight.
Gwyneth: What did the mother hen say to her baby chick?
Gwendolyn: “You’re eggstra special!”
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Chickens are versatile animals: they can be general-purpose chickens, egg producers (layers), dinner (fryers), insect controllers, pets, feather filling for pillows and mattresses, mother chickens (setting hens), show chickens (competition), and even alarm clock roosters. Which kind do you want?
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Chickens are scientifically classified as follows:
- Kingdom: Animalia (animals).
- Phylum: Chordata (animals possessing a notochord, a hollow dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a tail for at least some period of their life cycle).
- Subphylum: Vertebrata (animals with backbones).
- Class: Aves (Birds).
- Order: Galliformes.
- Family: Phasianidae.
- Genus: Gallus.
- Species: Gallus domesticus.
- Scientific name: Gallus gallus domesticus.
Lillian: Why was the chicken afraid of the chicken?
Starlet: Because it was chicken.
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Chickens have many predators, or animals that want to eat them or their eggs. Predators of chickens include skunks, owls, raccoons, foxes, hawks, opossums, bobcats, snakes, weasels, dogs, and humans. For this reason, chickens often need coops and pens for protection.
Lucy: Where are you likely to find the chicken in a grocery store?
Lucille: Standing in the eggspress line.
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The Chickens
Said the first little chicken,
With a queer little squirm,
“I wish I could find
A fat little worm!”
Said the next little chicken,
With an odd little shrug,
“I wish I could find
A fat little bug!”
Said the third little chicken,
With a small sigh of grief:
“I wish I could find
A green little leaf!”
Said the fourth little chicken,
With a faint little moan:
“I wish I could find
A wee gravel stone!”
“Now see here!” said the mother,
From the green garden patch,
“If you want any breakfast,
Just come here and scratch!”
By Author Unknown
Said the first little chicken,
With a queer little squirm,
“I wish I could find
A fat little worm!”
Said the next little chicken,
With an odd little shrug,
“I wish I could find
A fat little bug!”
Said the third little chicken,
With a small sigh of grief:
“I wish I could find
A green little leaf!”
Said the fourth little chicken,
With a faint little moan:
“I wish I could find
A wee gravel stone!”
“Now see here!” said the mother,
From the green garden patch,
“If you want any breakfast,
Just come here and scratch!”
By Author Unknown
Patricia: If a rooster laid an egg at noon on the pointed roof of a barn located precisely on the Earth’s equator, which way would the egg roll?
Priscilla: Neither way, because roosters do not lay eggs - hens do, you silly goose!
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Which came first, the chicken or the egg? According to “The Bible” (New King James Version), ‘Book of Genesis,’ chapter 1, verses 20 through 22, the chicken came before the egg: “Then God said, ‘Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.’ So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’”
Percy: What kind of eggs does a mixed-up hen lay?
Percival: Scrambled!
Chicken feed: A poultry sum.
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“I didn’t even know that chickens could fly, and suddenly one was landing on me. It happened when I was visiting a farm sanctuary. If I had been younger I would have asked my parents if I could take her home, please! After all, she chose me. Never mind that she chose everybody; she was a particularly friendly chicken. She made soft, strange cooing sounds and nestled into my arms like a happy kitten.” -Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals” (2004), chapter 2, page 57
If you want to know more about chickens, may we suggest that you become a member of www.BackyardChickens.com. Be sure to mention that you learned about them from www.MakeFunOfLife.net.
We are MFOL! . . . time to gather the eggs . . . cluck-cluck-cluck!
Priscilla: Neither way, because roosters do not lay eggs - hens do, you silly goose!
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Humor And Inspiration And Learning About Puzzles And Riddles” Gathered By David Hugh Beaumont.
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? According to “The Bible” (New King James Version), ‘Book of Genesis,’ chapter 1, verses 20 through 22, the chicken came before the egg: “Then God said, ‘Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.’ So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.’”
Percy: What kind of eggs does a mixed-up hen lay?
Percival: Scrambled!
Chicken feed: A poultry sum.
Continue scrolling down this website page to read the rest of the article, or click or tap on these words to read “Fun and Learning about Money” gathered by David Hugh Beaumont.
“I didn’t even know that chickens could fly, and suddenly one was landing on me. It happened when I was visiting a farm sanctuary. If I had been younger I would have asked my parents if I could take her home, please! After all, she chose me. Never mind that she chose everybody; she was a particularly friendly chicken. She made soft, strange cooing sounds and nestled into my arms like a happy kitten.” -Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson: “The Pig Who Sang to the Moon: The Emotional World of Farm Animals” (2004), chapter 2, page 57
If you want to know more about chickens, may we suggest that you become a member of www.BackyardChickens.com. Be sure to mention that you learned about them from www.MakeFunOfLife.net.
We are MFOL! . . . time to gather the eggs . . . cluck-cluck-cluck!
