A woman was pelted with chickens while rescuing her children from a radical Mormon sect.

Sabrina Tetzner, a former member of the Warren Jeffs polygamous radical Mormon sect of the The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), recently received sole custody of her four children - who were being held captive by one of her aunts in the sect according to The Frisky.

She had escaped eight years earlier, but due to the sect's indoctrination she did so alone. She returned with a court order to try and free her children this month.

During the seven hour standoff between the two other members of the church surrounded Tetzner's van and threw chickens at it. ABC reports they also tried something similar with a cow.

Eventually authorities helped her and her four children escape across state lines, but according to the Daily Mail church members followed her to her home in Utah.

Some apparently got there before her - smearing the walls with animal feces and breaking the furniture.

Tetzner and her children are currently staying in a safe house.