Stumpy, the eight-days-old duckling, stands discrete from the rest of the members of his family. The chicken has born with a rare mutation that has left him with an extra pair of full-sized legs.

"It was absolutely bizarre. I was thinking 'he's got too many legs' and I kept counting 'one, two, three, four,'" Nicky Janaway, a duck farmer in New Forest, Hampshire, said as she showed the duckling to reporters.

Janaway said Stumpy was doing well on his feeding and that he uses the extra pair of legs as stabilizers while running.

Such mutations are rare, but cases have been recorded across the world. According to AP reports, one duckling named Jake was born in Queensland, Australia, in 2002 with four legs but died soon after.