This is the adorable moment a hen played the mother role to seven orphaned puppies.<br /><br />Owner Teerachai Jelee recorded his cute pets in their backyard in Songkhla, southern Thailand on April 11.<br /><br />Footage shows the motherly hen taking care of the seven puppies. It is picking the pooches' fleas while warming them with its thick wings.<br /><br />The chick nanny appears genuinely fond of the little mutts, it sill gives them the friendly look even if the pups are slightly biting parts of its body.<br /><br />Teerachai said: "Those puppies were abandoned, so I kept them as pets. I am glad that my hen seems to be loving them as if its her own children. My friends keep asking me how the hen has puppies instead of chickens."
