• 19 pieces
  • Checked October 2026

Chicken ASCII Art

Tap a chicken to copy it whole; the first hen stands on a sign you can type on.

Chicken ASCII Art

mm \\\ .' o> \\\___.' /" ( ) '.____.' .-------||-----. | YOUR WORDS | '--------------'Chicken on a sign8 lines, 16 wideReady to copy

19 pieces. Tap one to copy it.

Your own words 1

One line 4

Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

Large, 10 lines and up 1

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How it works

Chicken text art in keyboard characters, drawn for this page: 19 pieces, with hens from the side and the front, chicks, a rooster crowing, a hen on her nest and a filled silhouette.

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Chick text art

A chick is a round head with a beak. Small chick faces right, Chick, front view faces you with a tuft on its head, and Chicken and her chicks has three walking behind a hen.

Chicken nest text art

Chicken on her nest sits low with slanted straw on both sides and under her. Nest with three eggs shows the eggs side by side, and Squash-proof nest of eggs is the same nest with no run of spaces.

  • Rooster text art is under Roosters: Rooster crowing has a comb of capitals, curved tail plumes and an open beak.
  • Chicken on a sign takes 10 characters where it says YOUR WORDS, or 14 with the padding.

Questions and answers

Is there a filled text art chicken?

Yes. Filled chicken silhouette is a hen's outline filled in solid with at signs, 8 lines tall and 14 columns wide. Only the beak and the feet are other characters.

How do you type an ASCII chicken on one line?

Three backslashes for the tail, (__) for the body, a letter o and a greater-than sign: \\\(__)o> is 9 characters. Rooster crowing, one line adds a hyphen and the call.

What is the biggest chicken here?

Rooster on a fence: 10 lines and 29 columns, the crowing rooster on a rail fence with a rising sun. Chicken and her chicks is the widest at 30 columns.

Which chickens survive squashed spaces?

The 7 under Squash-proof: four one-liners, a chick, a hen and a nest of eggs. None has a line that starts with a space or two spaces together.

All 19 pieces

Your own words 1

  • Chicken on a sign A hen stands on the top edge of a notice. YOUR WORDS is 10 characters long; the row holds 14. 8 lines, 16 wide.

One line 4

  • Chicken on one line Three tail feathers, a round body, an eye and a beak. 1 line, 9 wide.
  • Chicks in a row, one line Three chicks facing right, each a round head, an apostrophe for an eye and a beak. 1 line, 11 wide.
  • Egg to chicken on one line An egg, a chick and a grown hen, left to right. 1 line, 16 wide.
  • Rooster crowing, one line The one-line bird with a hyphen at its open beak, then its call. 1 line, 28 wide.
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Small, 2 to 4 lines 7

  • Chick, front view A chick facing you: a tuft on its head, two eyes, a beak written as a lowercase v and two toes. 4 lines, 7 wide.
  • Nest with three eggs Three eggs side by side in a nest of slanted straw. 4 lines, 11 wide.
  • Small chick A round chick facing right, with a pointed beak, down along its belly and two feet. 4 lines, 6 wide.
  • Small chicken A comb, a head with a beak, a body with three tail feathers and two legs. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof chick A chick four characters wide: a round head, an eye and a beak. 3 lines, 4 wide.
  • Squash-proof chicken The small hen with periods for every gap. 4 lines, 8 wide.
  • Squash-proof nest of eggs Three eggs in a straw nest, with periods in the corners. 4 lines, 11 wide.

Medium, 5 to 9 lines 6

  • Chicken and her chicks The hen with three small chicks walking behind her tail. 6 lines, 30 wide.
  • Chicken face, front view A comb of three points, two eyes, a beak and a wattle hanging under it. 6 lines, 10 wide.
  • Chicken on her nest The hen sitting low, with slanted straw on both sides and under her. 6 lines, 15 wide.
  • Chicken, side view A hen facing right: a comb, an eye and a beak, a wattle under it, a round body, three tail feathers and two legs. 6 lines, 14 wide.
  • Filled chicken silhouette A hen's outline filled in solid with at signs; only the beak and the feet are other characters. 8 lines, 14 wide.
  • Rooster crowing A taller comb, a curved tail of three plumes and an open beak. 6 lines, 15 wide.

Large, 10 lines and up 1

  • Rooster on a fence The crowing rooster on a rail fence, with a rising sun to the right. 10 lines, 29 wide.

How this list was compiled: Own work: every piece was drawn for this page on 2026-10-03, rendered in a monospaced font and looked at; none is copied from an archive or another site, and nothing from a named show, book, film or game is drawn. The hens share one construction of this site's own: a comb of the letter m, an eye and a beak, a quote mark for the wattle, a round body, three slanted strokes for tail feathers and two legs. The two larger roosters have a comb of capitals and a tail of curved plumes; a chick is a round head with a beak. Every character is one of the 95 printable ASCII characters, U+0020 to U+007E. Squash-proof means no line starts with a space and no two spaces touch. The comment box badge means at most 8 lines and 30 columns: a rule of thumb of this site, not a promise about any app. Licence: own work

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