Possible Clues:

• Failed completely
• Flopped
• Failed as a human, or succeeded as a hen
• *Snuck up on a chicken coop to collect breakfast?
• Failed big-time
• Totally flopped
• Created an issue by using white silkies - could Humpty Dumpty have done this for someone's breakfast?
• Failed ignominiously
• How hen, for example, produced an ovum
• Bombed