A Chicken That Carried All Sorts of Things

A Chicken That Carried All Sorts of Things

2006 · 10 min · ★ 5.0 · Animation

A chicken lived in a yard, which could not have offspring, which was very frustrating for her. She had been giving burth to toys, bottles, balls and other trash she miraculously brought chickens and... a tiny excavator. When the excavator grew up, he became very useful in agriculture and mined worms for the entire coop. However, once he opened a terrible secret that forced him to leave his native house.

Directed by Maryna Medvid · Written by Marina Dyachenko

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