Riddle #235

This very thing you were born with pleases us all. It's even capable of making men fall, while only experienced by few it's treasured by all.

What needs an answer but doesn’t ask a question?

I live in a house called a coop. I have two legs, two wings and a tail. I eat worms and bugs and grain. I lay eggs. I am a...

I live in the ocean. I swim wherever I want. I sing to my family. I can breathe through a hole in the top of my head. I am a...

What gets wet while it's drying?

Using eight eights and addition only, can you make 1000?

Alive as you but without breath, As cold in my life as in my death; Never a thirst though I always drink, Dressed in a mail but never a clink.

What goes up and down the stairs without moving?

A natural state, I'm sought by all. Go without me and you shall fall. You do me when you spend, and use me when you need to eat to no end.

As small as your thumb, I am light in the air. You may hear me before you see me, but trust that I'm there. What am I?

I have a face but no eyes, hands but no arms. What am I?