Rooster, Chicken, Turkey, and Peacock Jokers

I just (Feb 2024) enriched this section with a pair of  old American jokers.

Left - Joker from 1900 Dougherty #0  Steamboat AD24  
Right - Joker from 1888 Grover Cleveland Presidential Campaign Playing Cards

This article focuses on a subset of my bird jokers (itself a subcategory of flyers and of animals): the rooster, chicken, turkey and peacock jokers.  Here's the jokers from a card deck entirely made up of chicken artwork.

Each card features a fine art illustration of  chickens, roosters, or chicks. It's from Prospero Art ($12.50, still available).

The Piatnik Cabaret deck features roosters on the jokers. Frankly, I don't understand why there are roosters on the jokers.Fortunately, I glanced at the rest of the deck and fell in love with it.  It's basically Toulouse-Lautrec and other artists from Paris' Belle Epoch  with their artwork of the dancers and girls from the end from the 1800s. I put up a whole article about this Piatnik Art Deck  

These next two rooster jokers were, I believe, produced as part of a deck about one of the great video games. Could it be one of the Final Fantasy releases?

Another rooster with comments like: 'Mind your own business', "Work with your Mind', and 'Lead a Quiet Life'. Can anyone explain to me what that has to do with a rooster and what that deck is about?

Here's another A Dougherty rooster joker from their low end Steamboat decks, copyright 1900.   

Any concrete info on this rooster? It appers to be a reprint of the Grover Cleveland Victory Deck.

Another pair of rooster jokers. They are modern contemporary jokers, Clockwork La Ville Lumiere Playing Cards USPCC. 

Here's one of my favorite jokers of all time. I first bought one like this in the mid 70s in a barn junk store up in New England.  It is a peacock, not a rooster. It is so beautiful that I wanted to include it and that's why this article is not just about roosters but about roosters, chickens, turkeys, and peacocks. I'm trying to trace the history of this joker and so far, the best I can find is that it's an advertising deck for a Mexican beer.  It's Cerveceria Moctezuma, S.A. Productos Leo, S.A. “Superior Beer” Playing Cards (“La Rubia que Todos Quieren” – “The Blonde Everyone Loves”),

 

Since I'm including peacocks, I think this guy belongs here too.

 

And here are all the roosters, chickens, turkeys, and peacocks  others in some ensemble shots 

  

Next you should look through  the other animal sections of the joker collection.

1. Ensemble Animal combinations (cats AND dogs)



Animals: Flyers - Bee Boy

1. Cats  or  Dogs . Now there's a big cat subsection! 
2. Flyers:  Birds, Owls, Bees,  Butterflies  & Dragons . Now there's a rooster & chicken subsubsection!
3. Horses , zebras, donkeys, giraffes ...
1. Fantasy horses: centaurs, unicorns, pegasus
   
4. Monkeys, bears, and others with paws 
5. Animals with antlers, horns, and tusks. Elephants too!
6. Varmints - the annoying small wild animals
7. Reptiles, amphibians, sea creatures