Mike the Headless Chicken

[WIGGUM]

Is this possible?

http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/about_mike.htm

I read another article about Mike, and some other farmers tried to imitate his success with their own chickens, and some of them actually lived for a couple of days, the headless chickens that is. Is this a common occurrance?

[AWB]

What's sad is that I grew up only about 15 miles from Fruita, CO and I never heard about Mike nor Headless Chicken Days. My parents probably thought it was too weird and avoided Fruita in May.

I never saw Zion, either, and I was only a couple hours away from that.

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

It is just a little misleading.

While it looks as though it's *head* was lopped off at first glance, it was really just his face--the eyes and beak.

I'm still surprised he didn't die of some infection.

[Billdo]

Cecil has addressed this one in his column Is it possible for a chicken to live with its head cut off?

Short answer is the chicken is not really "headless".

[WIGGUM]

I'll be damned. Are there any questions he hasn't answered? I mean how obscure can one get, and Unca Cece has already covered it. The guy never ceases to amaze.

[Alias]

I read that most of a chicken's movement/life centers are in the brain stem, which remained intact when Mike's head was chopped off. There is a lot of "useful" information on the subject at

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/hea...cken/mike.html

[Alias]

I read that most of a chicken's movement/life centers are in the brain stem, which remained intact when Mike's head was chopped off. There is a lot of "useful" information on the subject at

http://home.nycap.rr.com/useless/hea...cken/mike.html

[AWB]

Now I see...

According to Alias' URL, Headless Chicken Days weren't celebrated until 1999, 13 years after I left the greater Fruita, Colorado, area. Now I don't feel like I had a deprived childhood.

This would be in a state that also has an Alfred Packard Festival (Boulder, CO - June 15-16). ICYWW, he was a mountainman/cannibal in the 19th century.

[AWB]

Now I see...

According to Alias' URL, Headless Chicken Days weren't celebrated until 1999, 13 years after I left the greater Fruita, Colorado, area. Now I don't feel like I had a deprived childhood.

This would be in a state that also has an Alfred Packard Festival (Boulder, CO - June 15-16). ICYWW, he was a mountainman/cannibal in the 19th century.