--- description: Opposites attract in this tale of friendship on the farm title: Watch This Totally Chill Pit Bull Play Nicely With Baby Birds image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch This Totally Chill Pit Bull Play Nicely With Baby Birds by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2015 4:16 PM CUT by [Sarah Begley](/author/sarah-begley/) ## Sarah Begley Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 3, 2015 4:16 PM CUT It’s a dangerous world for baby birds—unless they have a powerful protector. Several young chickens and at least one baby turkey have befriended a pit bull who sits quite calmly while they crawl all over the dog and peck at its fur. YouTube user “shay Israel” posted the video on Thursday under the title “snuggle time with mama Jules.” Looks like this corner of the animal kingdom is off to a very cozy Fourth of July weekend. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3945620/pit-bull-baby-turkeys-chicks/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3945620/pit-bull-baby-turkeys-chicks/"},"headline":"Watch This Totally Chill Pit Bull Play Nicely With Baby Birds","datePublished":"2015-07-03T16:16:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:21:46.136Z","description":"Opposites attract in this tale of friendship on the farm","url":"https://time.com/3945620/pit-bull-baby-turkeys-chicks/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sarah Begley","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sarah-begley/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3945620/pit-bull-baby-turkeys-chicks/","name":"Watch This Totally Chill Pit Bull Play Nicely With Baby Birds"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Inside the Canine Mind","description":"Professor Brian Hare at Duke University studies people's pet dogs to understand how canines think","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/dTemQHb7/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2009-09-11T01:23:04.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/dTemQHb7.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3945620/pit-bull-baby-turkeys-chicks/","duration":"PT2M8S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3945620/pit-bull-baby-turkeys-chicks/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```