Black and white family comedy short

Anybody in it who we might recognize? E. g. WC Fields, Laurel & Hardy, etc.?

Well, there's the chicken. That's a start.

But was it Susan the Chicken or Amelia?

I thought it was Lickin.

I like black and white, sometimes prefer, but am no good on comedy shorts. Thinking, when did those happen? That could narrow it down.

I'm still wondering if a "black and white family comedy short" means the family was black and white or the short was black and white.

It's unlikely that the short was made before 1928, for the simple reason that the OP doesn't mention that the short was silent. If the chicken played a pivotal role (as the OP suggests), my guess is that it was a Hal Roach film. Roach used animals in a large percentage of his comedy shorts. Some, like Petey the dog in the Our Gang comedies, were characters in their own right, but mostly the animals were just used for gags.