The kids were basking under the wing when the owner of the chicken coop found them.
Not the mother who gave birth, but the one that raised … It would seem that by the law of nature, cats and birds are eternal enemies. However, what a mother’s heart can withstand if children suffer, even if they are the children of your enemy.
An Iraqi farmer, Goran A Surchi, shared a touching story on social media. A month ago, Goran discovered that one of his chickens had sheltered three orphaned kittens.
“Once I heard some meowing from the chicken coop. I ran to look – I got scared, suddenly the chickens are in danger, ”says the farmer.
Goran looked closely at the chicken coop, but found no cat. Where did the meow come from then? Having listened, he understood: the sounds were coming from under … the chicken. Goran realized where the intruder was hiding.
Then the guy took the phone to film this funny moment. Imagine the farmer’s surprise when, lifting the chicken, he saw three tiny kittens at once. It turned out that the hen literally took the orphans under her wing.
Later it turned out that the mother of the kids had died.
“We found a lifeless mother of kittens. Unfortunately, she drowned in a lake near the farm, ”said Goran.
The video of a chicken babysitting kittens has taken the internet by storm. The video in TikTok was watched by almost 400 thousand people.
“Which came first: a chicken or a kitten,” they joke in the comments.
However, the cat family is capable of heroic deeds. So, last year in Spain, cats sheltered a guinea pig.
And a few years ago, in the Tyumen zoo, a cat replaced its mother to a monkey. The animal’s own mother, for unknown reasons, rejected the baby.