Actually it'd be smarter to keep the ounce of gold and give a couple of pre-1964 dimes in exchange for the chicken.
Trading dimes for a chicken will only earn you some lead and your buckets of silver will disappear as quick as if it were a brick of gold.
Aspirin, .22s, toilet paper, and things like canned beef (not the generic Walmart hide scrapings) might be a lot safer and easier to make change for.
Physical silver and gold are only to give yourself a place in the new economy once its stabilized.