I love making these chickens. It's a great way to use up little scraps. Whenever I'm cutting for a quilt, if the fabric looks chickenish, I cut a few 1" strips of it and put it in my Chicken Scraps tin. Then just trim strips to size whenever I get into Chicken mode.
I don't used them for pincushions either--I give them away to special friends (or my daughter's friends--it's the only thing she ever asks me to make anymore) I usually make about 1 doz. at a time.
Fun!