This was the moment a mum from New Zealand managed to pull her one-year-old son out of the way of a charging ram.

As the toddler, Theo, makes his way over to inspect a chicken a relentless ram can be seen sprinting towards them only just missing both the child and the bird.

The close call was caught on camera on October 29 in Upper Hutt by the boy's aunty Kim Dwyer who couldn't believe the superhuman reactions pulled off by her sister Jasmine.

"My reaction was lots of laughing out of shock. And then lots of cuddles with Theo when we watched the video back and realised how close it was," Kim told Newsflare.