I think there are many unanswered questions to this "chicken" question. Some would be,
What is waiting for him on the other side? Maybe family, food, shelter or a good pub. And if that is the case then why didn’t they join him in the first place across the greenway?
Was this chicken on a quest, and his goal was on the other side of the greenway? Was the chicken on his way to join the Grey Company? Or to simply get milk at the nearest grocery store? Maybe it wasn’t a quest at all, but an egg heist? Was that certain chicken incapable of producing the necessary eggs so viable to the production and continuation of the M-E chicken, so that the chicken was forced to “steal” other chickens eggs to help repopulate his chicken culture? Maybe the chicken was really a rooster in disguise, that would explain the egg-heist idea. Why would a rooster dress up as a chicken, and attempt to cross a greenway? Maybe it was ashamed of its un-rooster like characteristics and decided that being a chicken was much better, just got to lay eggs and all that, no crowing at the sun. And since the rooster under the chicken disguise was unable to produce the eggs, he was forced to steal them with the other chicken rivals across the greenway, so that nobody expected anything. Was the chicken under the influence of the One Ring when this took place. A Chicken-Wraith?
Where exactly is this greenway? Is it just a way that happens to be green, and so happens that the chicken needed to cross it? There had to be some reason on the “greenway” being mentioned, if it served nothing important, why even mention it to begin with. Maybe it was a greenway on the new Mordor Golf Course?
Are chickens even capable of crossings the deadly Mordor greenways? They(chickens) are a white color so maybe it was a defense mechanism to help the chicken to cross the Greenway. As we all know, white is the color of the ball. And without the ball, there would be no Golf. Never trust a man, that uses fluorescent colored balls. If it was an albino chicken, could you tell the difference? Is pink eyes a good quality in a chicken?
What if the fea of the chicken was of a Maiar, then what? What would that certain Maiar want with the greenway and the crossing of it. Maybe it wasn’t a Maiar, but it was Flame Imperishable! That would explain absolute nothing, but it fits with my above mindboggling comments. Was the chicken searching for the core of Arda? Or was the “fea” of the spirit so feiry it was having an internal struggle with its spirit?
If the chicken had wings, why didn’t it fly across? Does the chicken stand for something meaningful in Arda? Does the Valar do the “chicken dance”? Was the chicken really an enigma or an allegory? Maybe it was J.R.R. Tolkien himself, and the chicken represents more then just an edible bird. Maybe it was the “crossings” we all must do in are life. The crossroads that stand before us. Or maybe it wasn’t Tolkien , at all. But simply a chicken.
Was he the only chicken crossing. I see no plural so, one can assume, no. So, obviously it was not a “March” it was quite simply a “cross”. But to get deeper, what is a “cross” to a chicken. One can assume it to be a means of getting from point A to B. But as we all know, Chickens of M-E are quite different then Chickens of our earth.
After all this, one is not happy with the answer of “the chicken crossed the greenway to simply get to the other side”.
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