the story in the link looks like something from a freak-show or from one of these american horror movies but i, by the power vested on me by bbc, can assure you that it is quite true...

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.... 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.

"They got down to the end and had one who was still alive, up and walking around," says the couple's great-grandson, Troy Waters, himself a farmer in Fruita. The chicken kicked and ran, and didn't stop. "He took the chicken carcasses to town to sell them at the meat market," Waters says.

"He took this rooster with him - and back then he was still using the horse and wagon quite a bit. He threw it in the wagon, took the chicken in with him and started betting people beer or something that he had a live headless chicken."

Word spread around Fruita about the miraculous headless bird. The local paper dispatched a reporter to interview Olsen, and two weeks later a sideshow promoter called Hope Wade travelled nearly 300 miles from Salt Lake City, Utah. He had a simple proposition: take the chicken on to the sideshow circuit - they could make some money.

"Back then in the 1940s, they had a small farm and were struggling," Waters says. "Lloyd said, 'What the hell - we might as well.'"

First they visited Salt Lake City and the University of Utah, where the chicken was put through a battery of tests. Rumour has it that university scientists surgically removed the heads of many other chickens to see whether any would live.

It was here that Life Magazine came to marvel over the story of Miracle Mike the Headless Chicken - as he had by now been branded by Hope Wade. Then Lloyd, Clara and Mike set off on a tour of the US...the people of the village now have a holiday celebrating mike, the miracle chicken

for the rest of the story, visit http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34198390



can our doctors in the house pls explain how this happened?

Interesting

Adonbilivit

dejavski:
Adonbilivit

guy check the link first na

OP your mental problem dey primary 6A

So how was the chicken able to feed and drink water the whole 18month is was without its head?

Or are you saying it didn't eat or drink water for 18months?

CrazyMan:
So how was the chicken able to feed and drink water the whole 18month is was without its head?

Or are you saying it didn't eat or drink water for 18months?

according to the story in the link, which you guys did not bother to click by the way , the farmer used syringe to feed mikey....read the story ar bbc if you want more clarity.....damn nigeriand and their laziness

dampraise:
OP your mental problem dey primary 6A

it is you that know