Chicken Jokes!

Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road?

by Sharon Gaughan, PCLF Education Program Director

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Who over the age of five hasn’t heard this joke?  The most common reply is, "To get to the other side."  But I've also heard a few other silly replies, such as, "Because she didn't want to lay it on the line."  :)

Kids love silly jokes, and so do I!  I often end our chicken tours, chicken camps, and other chicken-focused presentations with a few chicken jokes -- and I have a list of "a dozen" chicken jokes that I usually share.  But at the end of our spring Great Garden Gang camp, during our end-of-camp celebration, some of the campers shared some new chicken jokes with me -- ones that I had never heard before.  And some of them were quite clever and very funny.

The idea came to me that perhaps I should start adding to my collection of twelve, and to see just how many chicken jokes I could collect.  A hundred?  Two hundred?  More?  

So, do you know any chicken jokes?  Would you be willing to share them with me?  If so, please send them along -- either by posting them as a comment on this blog, or by emailing me at sgaughan@prairiecrossing.com.

Let's see how many different chicken jokes we can pull together! Egg jokes count, too! 

Q.  Why was the chicken bad?

A.  Because she hatched from a rotten egg!

Egg-cellent!  :)