[orchardlady]

Do you have any chickenie sayings? To get the ball rolling my contribution is:-

'As rare as hens teeth'

[Chookiechook]

Or hens lips as my brother says

And of course the old...... Like a headless chicken ..... one

[Swing Swang]

Some translated Portuguese ones that I remember from my mother:


My neighbour's chicken is always fatter than mine.

Don't count your eggs before they are laid.

The most tasty chicken is always someone else's.

Neither care nor chicken broth harms an invalid.

Behave like a chicken indoors, but like a queen in the street! (I don't think I ever actually understood this one)

it's the chicken, rather than the cockerel, who's the boss at Gonçalo's house.

You'll find neither bug nor flea in a chicken run.

Chickens and sardines both taste the same from your neck down.

It's better to have bread and water served with love than good wine and chicken served with bitterness.

You'll never find peace in places where chickens and cockerels crow together.

Old chickens make for the most substantial meals.

SS

[joyfull]

The rooster may have the loudest crow but it's the hen that lays the eggs (this was on a cross stitch that I bought years ago and is still waiting to be done  )

[8doubles]

A whistling woman and a crowing hen are good for neither god or men.

[orchardlady]

Wonderful. Thanks everyone. The whistling woman one my father in law used to use quite often when my daughter was little and was learning to whistle.

Any more???

[Evansent]

Not a saying as such, but above our kitchen door it reads..
"an Old rooster and a young chick live here"

and so our other friend don't feel left out...
"what's good for the goose is good for the gander" 

C x

[tesni]

I have a chicken shaped wooden sign that says
'He rules the roost,
I rule the rooster!'

[evie2]

The only one I remember is; so you planted a feather and thought you could grow a hen.

[Foghorn-Leghorn]

How about "spitting feathers" when someone is really mad?