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Mike the Headless Chicken (April 20, 1945 – March 17, 1947) was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot. After the loss of his head, Mike achieved national fame until his death in March 1947.
Sep 9, 2015 · Seventy years ago, a farmer beheaded a chicken in Colorado, and it refused to die. How did Miracle Mike survive so long without a head?
On September 10, 1945, Lloyd Olsen was beheading chickens for market on his family farm in Fruita, Colorado, when one of the decapitated birds picked itself up and started running around the yard, still very much alive.
Feb 19, 2024 · In the early 40s, a very special chicken entered the annals of poultry history: Mike, the miraculous bird that refused to die after being beheaded. Mike broke the unlikely record as the longest surviving headless chicken, having managed to survive for a whole 18 months without a head.
Aug 11, 2014 · Why a chicken can run around with its head cut off. Mike the Headless Chicken, ca. 1945. / Courtesy miketheheadlesschicken.org. Mike The Headless Chicken lived for 18 months without a noggin after a farmer, in a failed attempt at slaughter, axed off his head and missed the jugular vein.
Jul 26, 2021 · Also known as Miracle Mike, Mike the Headless Chicken was a plump, five-year-old cockerel when he was unceremoniously beheaded on 10 September 1945. Farmer Lloyd Olsen of Fruita in Colorado did...
What is the story of Fruita’s “headless chicken”? Mike is a chicken who lived for 18 months without a head after escaping the fate of becoming dinner. It all started with the Olsen family, who were farmers living in Fruita, Colorado in September of 1945.
Sep 30, 2014 · Like any person "running around like a chicken with its head cut off" a headless chicken does, indeed, run around crazily and without much thought—at first. But if that chicken is Miracle...
Dec 7, 2016 · The bizarre but true story of Mike the headless chicken, who survived far longer than anyone thought possible after being decapitated.
'Mike the Headless Chicken': who was he and how long did he live ...
