50 Chicken Puns That Are Eggs-traordinarily Funny

Updated: May 14, 2024

Delight your inner comedi-hen with these eggs-traordinarily funny chicken puns

Quality chicken puns are pure poultry in motion. The wordplay! The coop references! The farm-fresh laughter! The barn is a never-ending source of inspiration for bird jokes, horse jokes and cow jokes—but these chicken jokes are eggs-tra hilarious.

So don’t stay cooped up with the same stale jokes. Flock to this fresh crop of chicken puns for some of the best jokes around!

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Funny chicken puns

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  • What do you call a chicken that’s good with numbers?
    A mathemachicken!
  • What’s a great place for a chicken to go on vacation?
    Stone-hen-ge.
  • What is a chicken’s favorite dessert?
    Coop-cakes
  • What did the chicken say to the comedian?
    Your jokes are im-peck-able.
  • What does a chicken put on toast?
    Marma-laid.
  • Which day do chickens hate most?
    Fry day.
  • What did the chicken do after putting on a show?
    He thanked the hen-semble.
  • What did the mama chicken tell her chicks before their exams?
    “Good cluck!”
  • Why do chickens like snacks?
    They’re always feeling peckish.
  • Why did the chicken become a detective?
    He wanted to investigate fowl play.
  • Why did the chicken eat a shamrock?
    She wanted the cluck of the Irish!
  • Why didn’t the chicken finish the race?
    She didn’t have the hen-durance.
  • What do you call a chicken with a siren on his head?
    An alarm cluck!
  • What did the car salesman say to the chicken?
    “Talk is cheep. Let’s make a deal!”
  • What do you call the door to a chicken coop?
    A hen-trance!
  • Why did the chicken join the band?
    He already had the drumsticks.
  • What was the chicken’s favorite movie?
    Lord of the Wings.

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Chicken-and-egg puns

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  • What did the chicken say during the fire drill?
    “Please don’t block the eggs-it!”
  • What happened to the chicken after the food fight at school?
    He got eggs-pelled.
  • What do you call a chicken from space?
    An egg-straterrestrial.
  • How did the chick get on her school’s honor roll?
    She got egg-ceptional scores on her tests.
  • What did the math major study?
    Egg-onomics!
  • Why did the funny chicken become a comedian?
    Everyone said he had the best yolks.
  • Why did the chicken get a ticket?
    He was egg-noring the speed limit.
  • What was the chicken’s New Year’s resolution?
    To get more eggs-ercise!
  • Why did the chicken stay up all night?
    She drank too many eggs-pressos!
  • What did one chicken say when another wanted to cut in line?
    “Omelet you go first.”
  • Why did the chicken get a raise?
    She was an eggs-pert in her field.
  • Why was the chicken valedictorian of her class?
    She aced all her eggs-aminations!
  • What show did the preschool chick like to watch?
    Dora the Eggs-plorer.
  • What do you call an egg in a haunted house?
    Terri-fried!
  • What do chickens say when they burp?
    Eggs-cuse me.

Don’t cry fowl play! Keep the poultry puns coming with our list of the best duck jokes! We promise you’ll quack up.

Chicken puns for kids

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  • How long do chickens work?
    Around the cluck.
  • What is a great afternoon activity for chickens?
    Going on a peck-nic.
  • What’s a chicken’s favorite dessert?
    Chocolate chirp cookies.
  • Why did the chicken cross the basketball court?
    Because the referee called fowl.
  • What do you get when you cross a chicken and a ghost?
    A poultry-geist.
  • How did the high schoolers dance at the prom?
    Chick to chick.
  • What does a chicken use to blow her nose?
    A hen-kerchief!
  • Why did the baby chick stay home from school?
    He was feeling under the feather.
  • What do chickens decorate at the holidays?
    A poul-tree!
  • Where did the chicken go on vacation?
    New Yolk City.
  • What was the chick’s favorite Beyoncé lyric?
    “If you liked it, then you should have put a wing on it.”
  • What did the chicken say when he was in trouble?
    “Help! I’m in a peck-le!”
  • Why did the rooster skip the horror movie?
    He was too chicken to watch it.
  • What does a grumpy rooster say?
    “Cock-a-doodle-don’t.”
  • Who’s a chicken’s favorite classical composer?
    Bach!
  • Where do tough, streetwise chickens come from?
    Hard-boiled eggs.
  • What do you get when you cross a chicken with a cow?
    Roost beef.
  • Why did the chicks cross the schoolyard?
    To get to the other slide!

Don’t ruffle any feathers! When you’re done with our list of chicken puns, keep even the littlest chicks laughing with our list of the best kid-friendly puns.

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