Paul Barker
MELBOURNE VIC, AUSTRALIA– Sometimes birds of a feather don’t always flock together.
A chicken in Southern Australia has given birth to a platypus along with two chicks, reports Southern Aviary Times, a birding news outlet.
The two-year-old hen named Polly gave birth to the cute platypus on March 8, much to the surprise of both mother and her confused rooster husband Charlie.
Polly says she had no idea that her little egg she was sitting on for ten days was actually a platypus, saying the entire time she was counting on there being three chickens.
The platypus’ name is Peter, and him and his two siblings Paul and Mary, have been getting along quite swimmingly, regardless of Peter’s lack of feathers.
“I was shocked when newborn Peter started pushing his bill out of his eggshell,” Polly told Fox News reporters while holding her duck-billed son. “At first I thought my husband Charlie was playing a prank on me, but then I suddenly remembered about the one-night stand I had with our platypus neighbor Oliver.
Mom says she had a little too much corn whiskey to drink one night and wandered into Oliver’s luxury waterfront home, mistaking his bill for her husband Charlie’s beak.
With his wife and stepson by his side, Charlie explained that he has already forgiven his wife for her accidental infidelity and promised that he will take care of Peter as if he was his own chicken.
“I guess forgiving my wife was the least I could do,” Charlie explained as he pecked his wife on the cheek. “Being that I’ve been intimate with more than a dozen other chickens that were not my wife.”
Charlie added that he is the supreme rooster of the barnyard and has twenty-one other wives.
