If the chickens are going to be in public, there is no expectation of privacy. I'd agree if the chickens were in their coop, and they were shooting a long lens through the windows we might be violating some privacy. However, running about in public like this is totally fine without releases

They are not running around in public.

some people just cannot read humor.

is there a textual equivalent of a laugh track that can be included?

/s ~= sarcasm

/j ~= joke???

i guess some people just never read douglas adams, or these are the same folks that "tried" to read adams and "just didn't get it"

You're thinking about this [1], aren't you?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...