A fascinating subset of my bird jokers (itself a subcategory of flyers and of animals) are the rooster and chicken jokers. First of all, there's the jokers from an entire playing card deck with 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. I have included at the
bottom of this article many of the other cards from his deck since I like it so much. It's basically Toulouse-Lautrec and similar artists from Paris with their artwork of the dancers and girls from the end from the 1800s. If you are interested, I think
this deck is still available.

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?
This next rooster joker is rare and it's one that I think I found in a used deck in a junk store in the 1970s. I was just reading the 52 Plus Joker March auction list and I saw this joker was the A Dougherty joker for their low end Steamboat decks.
Any info on this rooster?
Another pair of rooster jokers which I can't seem to provide any illuminating information about. sigh.
Here's one of my favorite jokers of all time. I bought it in the mid 70s in a barn junk store up in New England. Admittedly, it is a peacock, not a rooster. Sorry, too beautiful to not include.
Here's more cards from the Cabaret deck. Since I love that artwork, I've included a lot of it.
And a quote fromfrom birplayingcards.com website where they talk about the Belle Epoque in France.
The Belle Époque in France was the exotic epoch between the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 and the Great War of 1914. It witnessed a cultural explosion – Impressionism, Zola, the Ballets Russes, the Eiffel Tower, the Paris métro, the Paris Opéra and the Moulin Rouge. It was here that Toulouse-Lautrec, all four foot of him, drank absinthe (hidden in his cane), talked and loved and sketched the demi-monde – that eclectic classless mix of pimps and pansies, artists and aristos. He created the posters that enticed the cabaret’s clientele, in the new process of colour lithography, a medium he relished. From 1891 until his death in 1901 (from syphilis and drink), Next you should look through the other animal sections of the joker collection.
- Ensemble Animal combinations (cats AND dogs)
- Cats or Dogs . Now there's a big cat subsection!
- Flyers: Birds, Owls, Bees, Butterflies & Dragons . Now there's a rooster & chicken subsubsection!
- Horses , zebras, donkeys, giraffes ...
- Fantasy horses: centaurs, unicorns, pegasus
- Monkeys, bears, and others with paws
- Animals with antlers, horns, and tusks
- Varmints - the annoying small wild animals
- Reptiles, amphibians, sea creatures