I'm all of fifteen minutes into the game, just out of Helgen. I'm walking through Riverwood, admiring the sky box and horizon when what do I see? A chicken. A harmless, innocuous animal that tastes magnificent when wrapped in a tortilla. So, as I'm looking at this chicken, I immediately think of another RPG that I recently played featuring chickens: Fable; the game where punting chickens like a football makes people want to have six with you.

Also I was holding an ax in my hand.

So, like many people playing a video game would, I felled that chicken with an expertly placed bow from my ax. In shock, I heard not laughter from the nearby populace, but instead a very angry woman shouted how she was going to kill me as she drew a prison shiv from her side and charged at me like pregnant rhinoceros suffering from a hormone imbalance; I only barely escaped by jumping in the river and swimming like Aquaman to the nearest waterfall where I lost her.

Moral of the story: There isn't one. Just don't indiscriminately kill chickens.

Screw those things.

I love their "like a boss" attitude. "If you dare touch me, the whole town will be out to get you, problem?"

Lol, this is the first time i see in a game a chicken being protected by a whole nation.

The chickens have more rights than me, and I liberated this permafrozen nation.

I did that too, only instead of running I used Storm Call to kill everyone in town like a boss.

I got a 40 gold penalty on me for killing 3 guards, but was killed for eatin a chikn....

I think it's because in towns, the chickens are owned by people, right? Same as other farm animals (cows, goats, etc.) I too, find it rather amusing though, that killing a chicken gets the entire town after my a$$.... LMAO

I love the chickens.

You'll really love this next part about the chickens.

If you commit a crime around a chicken, the chicken will tell on you and you will get a bounty. As a thief I had to become an assassin of chickens so I could break into homes without being seen and getting a bounty.