Headless Rooster lived for 18 months?

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

WOW I would have freaked out if my chicken would get up and run around like a normal chicken after cutting off his head!

 

[hooligan]

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They didn't have animal cruelty in 1945...

The ASPCA was formed in 1866....so they did, just no one did anything about this incident. I know some ppl protested it though.


And yep, he was a side show guest

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

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They didn't have animal cruelty in 1945...

That's true, I didn't think about that.

 

[DEVILDOG]

I have to call B.S. on this. The picture looks real good for a picture tacken in 1945. I was born in 1970 and I have pictures that look like they were colorized. The picture also has a wierd shadow were the head is supposed to be. So I figure the picture is fake. The way the stoy read though that most of the brain steam and one ear was intact. I think it would read better that a chicken lived 18 months without a face. Then again I don't believe anything unless I see it for my self. Just my two cents. Brad

 

[Chickenaddict]

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I believe they had film of the bird not just pictures. I didn't want to believe it either until i saw the clip

 

[hooligan]

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It was real, go to youtube and you can see video of him, I'm sure.

 

[Oblio13]

Excerpts from Wikipedia:

"(Lloyd) Olsen failed to completely decapitate the ... bird named Mike... leaving one ear and most of the brain stem intact... Mike began a career of touring sideshows ... Olsen's success resulted in a wave of copycat chicken beheadings... A pickled chicken head was also on display... but this was not Mike's original head... at a motel in Phoenix ... Mike (died)... Lloyd Olsen claimed that he had sold the bird off, resulting in stories of Mike still touring the country as late as 1949.

Post mortem, it was determined that the axe blade had missed the carotid artery and a clot had prevented Mike from bleeding to death. Although most of his head was severed, most of his brain stem and one ear was left on his body. Since basic functions (breathing, heart-rate, etc) as well as most of a chicken's reflex actions are controlled by the brain stem, Mike was able to remain quite healthy..."

In other words, the bird wasn't completely beheaded, Lloyd Olsen was a dishonest carny, and lots of other chickens were tortured in hopes of similar profits.



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[Zookeeper9000]

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Now again why am I not surprised