A little red hen buys a grain of wheat and asks cow, duck, pig, and mouse to help plant, harvest, take to the mill, and bake it into bread. Only mouse agrees to help while the others refuse. Hen and mouse do all the work themselves. When the bread is ready, hen asks who will help eat it but now cow, duck, and pig want to. However, when they go to get the bread, it's not there. Hen shoves the others who didn't help into the oven and deep fries them as punishment for their laziness. Hen and mouse then eat the bread themselves.