I have had more people laugh at this, but it wasn't a joke, it was for a poor hen that had her back feathers pecked off her by another hen or maybe the male.  I would never had known of this except for the one that told me about it, she made on on her Bond and it was a little large on the hen but the one I made was a bit snug, so things like this sometimes we need to measure the person or animal for their knitted item.

Worked on the Bulky at TD6 with 4 stitches and 7 rows per inch in stockinet

1. Cast on 48 stitches with thin WY and knit a few rows if you are going to work garter stitch as I did, if you are going to work up rib on the bottom, then you can start out with your Main Yarn
2. Put needles to HP and latch tool cast on if you are working garter stitch
3. Knit 3 rows of garter stitch
4. Make eyelets near the ends, I think I took the 3rd stitch and transferred them to the next needle
5. Knit 3 more rows
6. Turn work and Bind Off 6 stitches at the beginning of the next 2 rows
7. Now you will reform the 2nd, 3rd and 4th stitch from the ends to make the garter stitch
8. Knit 4 rows
9. *Decrease on the ends by moving in the end 5 stitches so that the decrease is on the inside of the garter stitch
10. Knit 4 rows*
11. Repeat between the *'s but remember to reform or use your seed stitcher to continue the garter stitch up the sides
12. Work until you have about 30 stitches in work
13. Now put half the needles out to HP and set your carriage to Hold
14. Decrease 1 stitch at neck edge every row while continuing decreasing and reforming on the outside edge until you can no longer decrease on the outside edge.
15. But continue to decrease on the neck edge until you have 3 stitches left
16. Bind off
17. Work other side of neck the same

Now for the 2nd piece, you will cast on 36 stitches and omit the added bands to the bottom but work up the piece the same as above

Weave in all ends, sew buttons in place and put on chicken