How do you catch free-roaming chickens?

My brother uses a fishing net. The kind with the long metal handle. Works great for him.

First off you gotta be smarter than the chicken.

A line of cracked corn. . . now come on!

A fishing net. . . ? Maybe,under the right circumstances.

Find out where the birds roost.

Go there about 1-2hrs after they have gone to roost. . . could take the fishing net with you cuz once you stir them up it MIGHT come in handy.

With a pair of gloves,I do it bare handed unless I am handling Roosters,you grab the chicken by it's feet and allow it to hang upside down. . . all the while taking care that you don't hurt the bird and it doesn't hurt itself.

As gently as you can you hold the feet in one hand and hold the breast with the other hand as you guide it into a cardboard box that is big enough to hold all the chickens you wish to gather up.( keep the box off a few feet so that the chicken in box doesn't cause the other chickens to get anymore excited than need be)

You will create a stir when you gather up the first chicken so you might want to wait til they settle back down before trying to get the next bird. . . . .and so on and so on until you have gathered up all the birds you are wanting.

Once you get them to the place where you want them to roost,confine them for a minimum of 2 days. . . I prefer 4-5 days.(I have a door on my hen house for my access and it also has a screen door on it so confining my chickens isn't a problem. They stay in the henhouse yet they can see out and they can get fresh air.)

Keep plenty of fresh water for them along with feed.

Once you let them out again. . . hopefully in a pen that they can't get out of you won't have to ever hunt them down again.

Good Luck

This is easy - they are motivated by food. Make a line of cracked corn with a pile in a cage at the end. If you do this they will walk right into the cage and voila! Snap the door shut and you have chickens. I am surprised these birds are not sitting on eggs with chicks just about to hatch.

Wit until night then go out to the tree. they don't react in the dark, so go out with a net and a cage and catch them up and put them in the cage. its fairly easy if done right, i do it all the time. Of course the net needs a long handle .

use a fishing net and run after them.

i get my chihuahua to help me.