Film begins showing a hen with four kittens in a wooden box. A young girl reaches into the box and removes one of the kittens, placing it into an everready battery cardboard box. She removes a second kitten. She reaches in again and the hen, who is sitting on an egg (unseen) reaches out to peck her. But the girl persists and pulls another kitten from behind the hen. The girl removes the last kitten from the box, as the hen stands up revealing the egg she is sitting on. She moves about in the barnyard. Meanwhile the mother cat gathers up her kittens in the barnyard