The first rubber chicken production plant was located in Dublin in 1889,
Rubber chickens made their feature film debut in the 1921 silent film 'At the fair'.
Popular belief holds that the rubber chicken was first used as a joke by the French during the French Revolution.
The most expensive rubber chicken is one which belonged to Chalie Chaplin, reaching $3500 at auction in 1986.
Modern rubber chickens may in fact have no rubber at all, instead being pressed from a blend of hypo-allergenic polycyclics.
In early Monty Python skits, occasionally things the program would be interrupted by someone wearing a chainmail who would walk in and hit someone on the head with a dead chicken. This was later changed to a rubber chicken. Python (the  language of the Plucker parser) shares similar roots.