Mike the Headless Chicken (April 20, 1945 – March 17, 1947) [1] was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot. After the beheading, Mike achieved national fame until his death in March 1947.

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. Olsen put the chicken, which he named Mike, in a box on the porch and was amazed to find it still alive the next morning.

2024年2月19日 · 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 …

On September 10, 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, was planning to eat 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 Wyandotte chicken named Mike.

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.

Mike, a seemingly ordinary chicken from Colorado, defied all the odds and walked around for 18 months after losing his head

2024年1月10日 · On the evening of September 10, 1945, a rooster was pecking away at scattered food about a yard in Fruita, Colorado, without knowing the fate that would befall him. A farmer named Lloyd Olsen...

When a chicken’s head is chopped off, the severed nerves send impulses to the muscles of the legs and wings, which can cause the remainder of the bird to run around in a flap. Usually this …

2020年4月28日 · The Outlandish Story Of Mike The Headless Chicken On September 10, 1945, the life of the chicken changed forever. Mike appeared in both Time and Life magazines, whose exact notions he challenged for long 18 months.