The farmer's wife believes ducks are poor sitters and confiscates Jemima Puddle-Duck's eggs for the hens to incubate. Jemima is indignant, insists she wishes to hatch her own eggs, and tries to hide them but they are always found. She decides to lay her eggs away from the farm and seeks out a nesting place in the forest. A charming gentleman fox talks her into nesting at his home in a shed mysteriously filled with an ample supply of feathers.