Oh yeah I was going to comment on the chickens too. I admit it was a pretty funny idea, but also in practice it was a wee bit annoying, since there was a few problems with the text such as having them overlaps each others; or the chickens keep moving away before you can read all the texts, then you can't read that line again because the chickens dialogue was random.
As a jammer myself I understand the struggle of having to make tutorial as some of the last stuffs you do when you trying to scramble for a jam deadline, but I think in your case it could have been way more useful than in like a platformer like my game.