You can pick up chickens while you are holding an item in your hand, which makes feeding them seeds very tedious and problematic if you keep them within a fence. I expected to need an empty hand to interact with them, similar to taming horses.

I wonder if there should be more config options for this feature, maybe an option to require sneaking as well?

Using Quark 3.2-357 with Forge 40.1.47.