Silent Night Not In This Coop Ugly Christmas Sweater Rooster Cluckin Around

Silent Night? Not In This Coop Ugly Christmas Sweater With a Rooster in the Lights

That question mark is the whole joke. “Silent Night?” sits across the chest in chunky white stitch-style letters, and “Not In This Coop” answers it a few inches below, with a wide-eyed rooster standing in between. He is wrapped head to tail in a string of colored bulbs, a Santa hat sliding over one eye, beak open mid-crow. Our Silent Night Not In This Coop ugly Christmas sweater is a rooster holiday sweater for anyone whose December mornings start with a flock announcing the day long before the coffee is ready.

A Rooster Tangled in Bulbs, With Hens Marching Down Both Sleeves

The sweater is black, which lets every bulb glow. Pink, blue, green, orange and yellow lights wind around the rooster’s chest and wings, and his teal tail feathers curl out behind him. He looks like he lost an argument with the tree, and he has plenty to say about it. A second string of bulbs runs across the shoulders. Zigzag bands in pink and lime green repeat down the arms, and small white hens stand in rows between pine trees and snowflakes, as if the whole flock came along to watch the tangle. Dotted snow drifts across the dark background, and the lower edge carries its own border of hens and snowflakes.

We designed this one for the person who keeps chickens and has opinions about every one of them, the grandma who names each hen, or the dad who admits he talks to the rooster. It suits men and women alike, so it goes to whoever is loudest at the holiday table. Nobody here sleeps in. That person usually knows who they are.

Most households have one strand of lights that never works the first time. The rooster has clearly met it. Wear this rooster Christmas sweater to the tree-trimming evening or the office sweater contest, and that shocked little face starts the conversation before anyone says hello. Between the pine trees climbing the sleeves and the hens lined up along the edges, there is plenty to point at while the cocoa gets poured.

Where Else Would a Rooster in a Santa Hat Feel at Home?

Anywhere the holidays get loud, such as a Christmas Eve dinner with the cousins or a cold morning feeding the flock. The black base and bright bulbs also make an easy pick for a friend who keeps backyard hens.

The rooster’s crooked Santa hat and wide eyes say what most of us feel on the first weekend of December, halfway through untangling the lights.