A poultry-handling assembly (10) (figure 6) comprises two endless conveyors(12, 13) arranged side-by-side and adapted tomove poultry from a first location (15) to a second location (17). Accessmeans at the first location allows birds to enter the as-sembly (10) one by one e.g. with one foot on one conveyor (12) and the otherfoot on the other conveyor (l3). Conveyor guidemeans constrain the conveyors (12, 13) to present an open-bottomed V-shapedtrough configuration at the second location, wherethe legs of the birds will slip between the two conveyors (12, 13) forengagement by a restraint device (19) and subsequent take-upby the shackles of a processing plant shackle line (20). In an alternativeembodiment (figure 9), the conveyors (12, 13) are re-placed by two side-by-side conveyors (38, 39) which grip the birds laterally.
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