Babs' knitting is real, done with toothpicks as needles.
There was a major push to get the film nominated for Best Picture at the Academy Awards. The failure to get the nomination, and the popularity of the film among Academy members led to the introduction of the Best Animated Feature category for the next Academy Awards (2002), which was won by the fellow DreamWorks film Shrek (2001).
Ginger and Rocky were named after two of co-writer and co-director Nick Park's childhood pet chickens.
Mel Gibson's kids played a major part in convincing Gibson to take the part, because they were very impressed with the Wallace and Gromit shorts.
The characters' bodies were made of silicone with latex covering, while the heads and hands (or wings) were plasticene. All the chicken characters have collars and ruffles to hide the disparity between the modeling clay heads and wings and the latex-covered bodies.