Abstract: A live poultry-conveying, counting and crating device is described which comprises(a) a chicken house;(b) a counting station;(c) live poultry-conveying mechanism for conveying live poultry inside and out of the chicken house through the counting station;(d) a loading chute having a bottom downwardly inclined at an acute angle on which the live fowl can slide downwardly, an inlet opening at the upper end of the latter for receiving live poultry from the live poultry-conveying mechanism, and an outlet opening at the lower end of the inclined bottom; wherein the counting station is associated with the chute for counting live poultry passing down the latter; and(e) a transport mechanism for transporting empty coops having an aperture in their top face to the outlet opening of the chute and coops filled with live poultry away from the outlet opening of the chute;the transport mechanism comprises an arrester plate for stopping each coop as it arrives at the outlet opening for a time sufficient to fill the coop with