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'Headless Mike' after being beheaded, continued to walk around and eventually lived for 18 months before eventually dying.
That's the mysterious story of a chicken which was beheaded some seventy years back and refused to die. His owners cashed in on his condition, taking him to shows and public displays in the early 19th century.
He eventually died of suffocation later on and his legend lived on for generations.
Here's his story:
Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.
On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen's hatchet that day didn't behave like the rest.
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Source: BBC
That's the mysterious story of a chicken which was beheaded some seventy years back and refused to die. His owners cashed in on his condition, taking him to shows and public displays in the early 19th century.
He eventually died of suffocation later on and his legend lived on for generations.
Here's his story:
Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. Mike, as the bird became known, survived for 18 months and became famous. But how did he live without a head for so long, asks Chris Stokel-Walker.
On 10 September 1945 Lloyd Olsen and his wife Clara were killing chickens, on their farm in Fruita, Colorado. Olsen would decapitate the birds, his wife would clean them up. But one of the 40 or 50 animals that went under Olsen's hatchet that day didn't behave like the rest.
click here to read full story
Source: BBC