Mike the Headless Chicken (April 1945 –
March 1947), also known as Miracle
Mike, [1] was a Wyandotte chicken that
lived for 18 months after his head had
been cut off. Although the story was
thought by many to be a hoax , the bird's
owner took him to the University of Utah
in Salt Lake City to establish the facts of
the story. [1]
Beheading
On September 10, 1945, farmer Lloyd
Olsen of Fruita , Colorado, United States ,
was eating supper with his mother-in-law
and was sent out to the yard by his wife
to bring back a chicken. Olsen chose a
five-and-a-half-month-old cockerel
named Mike. The axe missed the jugular
vein, leaving one ear and most of the
brain stem intact. [2][3]
Despite Olsen's failed attempt to behead
Mike, Mike was still able to balance on a
perch and walk clumsily; he even
attempted to preen and crow, although
he could do neither. When the bird did
not die, Mr. Olsen, who was surprised,
decided to continue to care permanently
for Mike, feeding him a mixture of milk
and water via an eyedropper; he was also
fed small grains of corn.
His crowing, though, consisted of a
gurgling sound made in his throat. Mike
also spent his time attempting to preen
and peck for food with his neck.
Death
In March 1947, at a motel in Phoenix on
a stopover while traveling back from tour,
Mike started choking in the middle of the
night. The Olsens had inadvertently left
their feeding and cleaning syringes at the
sideshow the day before, and so were
unable to save Mike. Olsen claimed that
he had sold the bird off, resulting in
stories of Mike still touring the country as
late as 1949. Other sources say that the
chicken's severed trachea could not
properly take in enough air to be able to
breathe, and it therefore choked to death
in the motel. [

i trust naija folks.....the next thing after beheading na hot water, no second chance

shikshark: i trust naija folks.....the next thing after beheading na hot water, no second chance

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