More weird stuff from the WWW...
A headless chicken lives for over a year....
Shocking but true...read on dudes...
"Sometimes you come across a story that really, really seems too
weird to be true. Sure we've all heard about chickens who run
around the barnyard after getting their heads chopped off. But for
over a year? So in an effort to know, for sure, that the news is
The Truth, I went looking for evidence that Mike was real. Here's
what I found -- and the story from the 26 March 2000 issue of This
is True.
The town of Fruita, Colo., wanted something a little less boring
than the usual "pioneers" to focus on for Colorado Heritage Week,
so the city revived the story of Mike the Headless Chicken. In the
1940s, farmer Lloyd Olsen went to get a chicken for dinner. Wanting
to leave as much of the neck as possible, he lopped off the
chicken's head as tightly as he could. The chicken did not die, and
continued to "peck" for food as it walked around the yard. Amazed,
Olsen started feeding the chicken with an eyedropper. The headless
bird, dubbed Mike, appeared in Life magazine and traveled to
exhibitions around the country. Fruita's Mike the Headless Chicken
Festival is a smashing success, and a new Mike sculpture ("I made
him proud-looking and cocky," the artist says) was recently
unveiled downtown. Mike lived for 18 months after his head was
chopped off."
Mike in Real Life
A face only a mother could love -- Mike the Headless Chicken. Note
what's down by his feet.
