'Fight to the death' between a backyard chicken and a snake

Incredible footage shows the ‘fight to the death’ between a backyard chicken and a snake – and the winner is a complete surprise

  • A ‘Kung Fu’ chicken has been filmed battling a snake in a brutal backyard stoush 
  • Social media users were surprised the chook was able to defeat the snake 
  • Others said the clip was ‘cruel’ and the person filming should have intervened  

A ‘Kung Fu’ chicken handed a brutal beatdown to a menacing snake in a ‘fight to the death’ on an Australian verandah.

A woman in Simpson, southern Victoria, filmed the incredible match which ended with a surprising result and posted the footage to Facebook.

Social media described the backyard chook’s combat tactics as ‘death by a thousand pecks’.

For two minutes the fearless hen lashes out at the snake before eventually swallowing the threatening creature whole.

‘Chooks are just a mini T-Rex,’ one commenter said.

Another joked: ‘That’s the style Jet Li used in his movie back in the days of Kung Fu.’

But not everyone was impressed by the video.

‘Just cruel for both. Why wouldn’t a human intervene with a broom etc to prevent this?’ one person wrote.

Another said: ‘Absolutely disgraceful to film it and not save both animals from each other. True cruelty’.

A ‘Kung Fu’ chicken has handed a brutal beatdown to a menacing snake in a ‘fight to the death’ encounter that was filmed on a woman’s veranda

But some pointed out the hen was trying to protect its young.

‘The snake would have been after her eggs,’ a commenter wrote.

‘It is called nature,’ another said. 

Though chickens are mostly thought of as herbivores that eat grass and grain, they also very effective hunters that can feed on mice, worms, insects and a number of other animals.

Some aggressive chooks are even known to attack dogs.

Social media described the backyard chook’s combat tactics as ‘death by a thousand pecks’

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