Chicken cartoon

Read these chicken jokes with a friend, your family or your class. Pause after each question and see who can guess the playful answer.

Jokes to read aloud

Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in the mud and cross the road again?
Because he was a dirty double-crosser!

What do you get if you cross a chicken with a cement mixer?
A brick layer!

What kind of chicken grows on a tree?
Poul-tree!

How does a rooster start its to-do list?
Cock-a-doodle-do!

Did you hear about the chicken who could only lay eggs in the winter?
She was no spring chicken.

What do chickens grow on?
Eggplants!

Why did the chicken cross the basketball court?
He heard the referee calling fowls

Why is it easy for chicks to talk?
Because talk is cheep!

Why did the chicken cross the playground?
To get to the other slide.

What do you get when you cross a chicken with a duck?
A bird that lays down!

Why did the chicken join a band?
Because it already had drumsticks.

Why did the chicken cross the "net"?
It wanted to get to the other site!

What does a chicken need to lay an egg every day?
Hendurance.

Why did the chicken cross the road?
So he wouldn't get bocked in traffic.

What do you call a rooster who wakes you up at the same time every morning?
An alarm cluck!

If a rooster laid an egg on a roof, which way would it roll?
Neither way: roosters don't lay eggs.

What do chicken families do on Saturday afternoon?
They go on peck-nics!

What do you get when you cross a chicken and a four-leaf clover?
The Cluck o'the Irish!

How does a chicken mail a letter to her friend?
In a HEN-velope!

What does an alarm cluck say?
"Tick-tock-a-doodle-doo!"

What do you call a group of chickens clucking in unison?
A Hensemble.

Why does a chicken coop have two doors?
Because with four doors it would be a chicken sedan.

Why did the t-rex cross the road?
Because the chicken hadn't evolved yet

What do chickens serve at birthday parties?
Coop-cakes!

What do you get when a chicken lays an egg on top of a barn?
An eggroll!

How do chickens bake a cake?
From scratch!

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