When a chicken gets loaded in a chunk that has just been loaded, they will flap their wings a bit for seemingly no reason before stopping. I found this out by teleporting straight to a few chickens that were in unloaded chucks.
You can reproduce this by taking note of a chicken's coordinates, going far away from it, (probably about 200 blocks or something) and then teleporting straight back to the chicken. You should notice that the wings will flap for a brief period of time before stopping.
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I am able to reproduce the reported behavior. It was introduced in Minecraft 14w25b, presumably alongside the fix of MC-56899. However, this has already been reported in MC-64952.