A chicken riddle is:
Q: What do you call a crazy chicken?
A: A cuckoo cluck.
“Cuckoo cluck” sounds like “cuckoo clock.” The pun has been cited in print since at least 1992.
26 July 1992, Chicago (IN) Tribune, “Spots,” sec. 9 (Sunday Comics), pg. 9, col. 2:
Q. What do you call a crazy chicken?
A. A cuckoo cluck.
Michael Taylor, 10, Chesterton, Ind.
12 June 1993, Marshfield (WI) News-Herald, “A Little Bit of Humor,” Bubble Gum Rapper, pg. 6A, col. 3:
Billy: What do you call a crazy chicken?
Tom: A cuckoo cluck.
Google Books
1001 More Cool Jokes with Glen Singleton
By Barb Whiter
Victoria, Australia: Hinkler Book Distributors
2002
Pg. 7:
What do you call a crazy chicken?
A cuckoo cluck.
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