You can pick up multiple chickens, you just have to press the action button on the pot enough times to drop off however many chickens you've picked up. I managed to drop off 37 chickens and that was pretty much all at once.
im aware, the problem stated was that it doesn't mention that fact, i assumed by pressing it once i dropped all the chickens in my inventory instead of only 1 of them, since you can't pause to check your inventory i had no way to confirm otherwise until i lost.
