They say don ’ t count your chickens , but you ’ d be excused for counting the legs on this chicken caught on tape in Thailand . The bizarre video features some bemused locals laughing while recording a four-legged chicken wandering around looking for food . Completely indifferent to the situation , the chicken ’ s two extra deformed legs trail behind it and drag along the floor as it walks . A woman picks up the chicken and brings it into better view of the camera and the bird seems perplexed by the attention it has gained . The video concludes with a close-up shot of the chicken minding its own business , seemingly content with its additional body parts . Surprisingly , four-legged chickens are not as uncommon as many people would think . The chicken appears completely indifferent to having two extra legs as it wanders around and drags them behind it . The video concludes with the filmmaker going in for a close-up shot of the chicken 's extra legs . In 2005 , a live chicken was found among 36,000 other birds at a farm in America . Named Henrietta , the bird managed to go unnoticed for 18 months at Brendle Farms in Somerset , Pennsylvania , before it discovered by a foreman . Farmer Mark Brendle 's 13-year-old daughter Ashley named the chicken and asked to keep it as a family pet . The bird had two normal front legs but behind those were two more which were dragged behind when Henrietta walked , exactly like the chicken featured in this video . The condition called Polymelia is a birth defect that results in individuals having more limbs , which are usually shrunken or deformed . This can sometimes occur when an embryo begins to develop as conjoined twins . Before one twin stops growing , leaving the remaining developments – often limbs – of the undeveloped twin attached to the body of the live baby . The condition is a birth defect known as Polymelia and can sometimes occur when an embryo begins to develop as a conjoined twins .
The chicken is filmed wandering around dragging its extra limbs . Bird appears completely perplexed by the attention it gains . Comment: The footage of the bird was captured by locals in Thailand .