Chickens - How to Pick Up & Handle a Hen

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Liz Crain demonstrates how to pickup and handle a Chicken:

Scoop the Chicken up from the ground and hold her against your chest as quickly as possible to minimize the chance of the bird struggling.
Firmly graps their feet between the fingers of one of your hands and slightly back towards the Chicken's rear.
Flapping wings can be overwhelming for both you and the bird, so keep them close and place one hand over their wings.
Take the opportunity to inspect the bird's feet, cloeca, head and beak by holding them upside down in your lap with their head tucked in close to your body.
It's easiest to pickup Chickens as evening approaches and they've already perched in preparation for sleep. They are more docile during this period of time.
The more you handle your birds the more comfortable they will become with being picked up and having you around in general.
To put a bird down, keep your hand over their wings and bring their feet down to the ground and quickly let go.

This post really helped me pick up more chicks

I will never forget the day my Dad had me chase a chicken when we were visiting a farm, and I will tell you.. it wasn't what you'd expect to see to see on a farm.. a girl in to computer science and math all being a nerd that day and then the next minute my Dad was like, " Brooke, here go get a chicken, hahaha" low and behold it was one of my more embarrassing moments :) thanks for posting

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Nice post, very helpful. A lot of people wouldn't have any idea how to pick a chicken up and I would've become one again, been a while since my family had chickens. Thank you for the post!

Thanks, If i do come in contact with a chicken, I will do this. Unless the chicken has bird flu in which case I will not pick it up this way.