Chicken Expressions

[Mikey]

Since getting some chooks I've noticed that there are loads of expressions related to chickens, here are some of mine can you think of any others.

Are you Chicken?

Hen Pecked

Pecking Order

Its a chicken and egg situation

Don't put all your eggs in one basket

Flew the coop, or flew the nest

Diy before a baby is born is referred to as Nesting.

Small change is also known as Chicken feed.

Wrack your brains and tell me some more.

[chris]

Running around like a headless chicken (although from where I'm from it's more so: buzzing around like a blue a**ed fly!)

the forum title, I guess - ruling the roost?

As rare as hens teeth (think you used this one a while back )...

[Suechooks]

Don't count your chickens.......
Chickening out

[RedThorn]

My mum always used to say smells like wet chickens....

[baldrick]

as miserable as a wet hen, shes a right mother hen, and bit more tenuous link but what about scratching round for spare change?

[Flummery]

I remember someone who used to refer to anyone lording it around as, 'He thinks he's the Boss Cocky'.
Oh, remembered another.
My gran used to call anyone who was a bit eccentric a Cock Egg (because they are vanishingly rare I should think!)

[Florence Fennel]

My dad used to say "A whistling woman and a crowing hen, are neither fit for God nor men".
Scratching out a living.
Feather your nest.
Fussing like an old hen.
Cackle like a hen.

Ooh, hen pecked (nagged)
Dumb cluck

The chickens have come home to roost (or should that be pigeons?)
Brood about it.
Pecking order.
Hatch an idea.

[Florence Fennel]

and regarding age:

Turkey neck
You're no spring chicken.

[squibbs]

Hen Party

Walking on eggshells

Egg on yer face

Cock sure

It tastes like chicken (almost everything!)

Its like the curate's egg - good in parts

Cant make an omlet without breaking some eggs

[RedThorn]

all your egg's in one basket
looks like chicken erm poo (bad welding job all blobby)

[its hilly]

Madder than a wet hen
Cock of the walk (North)
Chicken brained..although I'm not sure how much of an insult that is now I've had them for a while.
As the old rooster crows, so the young rooster will too

[singlebilingual]

In school the hardest kid or best fighter was always known as the Cock of the class, year, school etc

[VirginVegGrower]

Birds of a feather flock together
Hen pecked
Headless chicken
Cooped up
Bird brain

[VirginVegGrower]

Cock a hoop
Feeling broody
Walking on eggshells
Pecking order
Mother hen

[VirginVegGrower]

Which came first - chicken or the egg?

My personal favourite is "where's my garlic porridge?" Ah yes, that isnt the saying you're after but it's the first one I get every morning!