Why are yellow newborn poultry members considered the best accountants?
They are wonderful at counting their chickens before they hatch.
The punchline subverts a famous idiom by looking at the literal biological state of a baby bird. Because these little yellow creatures have already emerged from their shells, they bypass the traditional warning entirely.
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