Carrying a Chicken

[CalgaryFarmer]

I looked a couple of threads on carrying a chicken and did not see the same way that I do it.

I point the chicken forward and put my hand under the outside wing so that my fingers extend across and over the keel with my thumb, straight, near where the wing attaches to the chickens body, pointing up. I then roll the chicken over by rotating my hand so that the keel is now pointing towards me and my hand is now fully supporting the chicken. The chicken is effectively on its side. I find they are quite relaxed like this.

If they struggle, I just hold firm and they will settle down in a second or two.

I have not had really large chickens so I do not know how it would work for them. But I do it with standard roosters without issue.

I am a male but do not have particularly large hands.

 

[The Sniper]

I just put my hands where my thumb is on their back, the rest of my hand curved around over the wing and under the breast of the bird.
Ive noticed if you hold two chickens and put them nose to nose they just stare at each other and never struggle, even the insane rooster I had to eat cuz he was so big and mean he nearly murdered multiple other birds