Well the link from ocarina of time died because he went crazy and got depressed and turned into a stalfos wandering the lost woods. Was it because of chickens or because he skipped seven years of his adolescence to defeat a dark lord only to be sent back in time and have everything he did undone and nobody but him remembers, or was it because of chickens? I dunno seems pretty clear.
The punk kid with the blue chicken in Ocarina that turned into a Stalfos is one of the darker happenings in the whole series. That always stuck with me as being incredibly grim, especially the way the little girl tells you about it.