Measures to avoid chicken stealing in Georgetown, Washington DC. Chickens on a field in a poultry farm. A farmer feeds the chickens. A board at the poultry farm reads ' Thieves Beware this poultry is marked & registered'. A sheriff marks pullets with ink to avoid stealing. An ink mark found on a chicken at a farm. A car parked in the background. The sheriffs enter a poultry farm. Sheriff or police escort a chicken thief to jail along with the stolen chicken. They open a jail cell door to lockup the man and the chicken in the jail cell. Hen at the jail cell window.