What do you call a chicken without a head? A living chicken

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What do you call a chicken without a head? A living chicken


Alan Zammit


You may think that chickens are some weak and dumb creature, yet nature holds many surprises to the mis-informed person.



In fact, chickens can live without a head, even for two whole years.

On Monday September 10, 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen from Colorado was sent out by his wife to get a chicken to eat for supper.

The farmer chopped the head off the five months old chicken, but something odd happened.

Olsen failed to completely decapitate the bird, named Mike, leaving one ear and most of the brain stem intact, quite a botched decapitation.
Not quite sure what to do with his by now loose head, on the first night after the decapitation the chicken slept with it under his wing.

Its will to live convinced the farmer to save Mike from the cooking pot.

Astonishingly for the farmer, the chicken did not die. Mike even tried to balance and walk, which it did by time.

The farmer fed the Mike the Chicken a mixture of milk, corn and water via an eyedropper.

The headless chicken quickly found fame, with many willing to pay a lot of money to see this bizarre side of nature, being in the front page of big-name magazines and newspapers.

Mike's popularity was so big, it was earning the farmer over Lm1,500 per month which total around Lm16,000 inflation-arranged.

Despite being headless (its head was later eaten by the cat), Mike lived on for 18 months when the prized chicken started choking, with the farmer forgetting the syringes to cure the choke.



Mike died in March 1947, leaving behind a legacy, since Mike is still celebrated in his country home in Fruita, Colorado where 'Mike the Headless Chicken' Day is still celebrated.

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J'ai des doutes sur cette histoire qui date de 1947. Je ne crois pas que ces photos soient authentiques.