City dweller Egghead dreams of being a cowboy, but his bouncing around gets him kicked out of his boarding house. He sees an ad for a ranch looking for a cowboy and applies. His tryout includes tests of marksmanship and use of a branding iron, but most of it consist of chasing down and roping a troublesome little calf. He passes the test, but the job isn't exactly what he dreamed of.

All of a hen's eggs hatch, but one of them turns out to be an ostrich. She however keeps it as one of her own. The ostrich has a knack for getting into trouble. He gets stuck after eating a goldfish, then falls into an basement where he swallows a car jack whole, then has a run-in involving a worm and a lawn sprinkler, and last but not least is captured by a weasel. The weasel is singing while he prepares to cook the ostrich. The ostrich in the meantime swallows a hanging light bulb and a box of fireworks, and those are lit after he's put in the oven. The weasel, irritated at this point, decides to let the ostrich go. The ostrich unintentionally puts on a fireworks show.