OK, it's not really called a chicken zamboni, it's really a mechanical chicken catcher:



From this article: http://online.wsj.com/article_email/...941400,00.html

It's a snap to coax barnyard animals like pigs and cattle to go where you want them -- but "you can't herd chickens," says Paul S. Berry of the British Silsoe Research Institute, an agricultural-research center that has studied the problem for decades.

For that reason, poultry farmers have long relied on human catchers. Their job is to run around inside chicken houses, nabbing by hand more than eight billion birds a year. This is hard not only on the chickens, which get roughed up, but also on the catchers. The birds flap, scratch and befoul their captors. Most people can tolerate only a few months of that before flying the coop.

Now after years of attempts that ended in failure, including one ill-fated chicken vacuum, manufacturers have finally produced machines capable of catching and caging chickens. Looking like a combination airport baggage carousel and tank, the devices can capture 150 birds a minute. That's as many as a team of eight skilled men can corral.

"Automation is the way to go," says Brad Cole, live-production manager for a Tyson Foods Inc. slaughter plant in Georgia, the nation's top poultry-producing state. In a dimly lighted chicken house here in Ellijay, he stood and watched as one of the new harvesters, Lewis/Mola LLC's model PH2000, strutted its stuff.

 

Whatever it is, I Want One....... that is a cool looking toy.

 

Can I pick up one of them thangs...I can put it in my tool box and catch a few "other" things

 

I have got to see this thing in action! I have a Brother out-law who used to choke chickens, he could grab 6 at a time. Talk about funny, I should have taken video and sold it to "The World's Craziest Home Video's" If any of you get a chance to watch this spectacle, please do!! It is similar to herding cats.
JK

 

Looks like something outta Monster Garage...

 

Just goes to show how funds are mis-appropriated. Why not just use the food to coax them into the cages? I know when I drive up to a friands ranch in his truck, the cows com running thinking foods here. Dumb animals are as dumb as we think.