Posted on 09/09/2025 5:43:21 PM PDT by DallasBiff
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.
"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.
It was placed in an old apple box on the farm's screened porch for the night, and when Lloyd Olsen woke the following morning, he stepped outside to see what had happened. "The damn thing was still alive," says Waters.
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That’s the one I’m thinking about.
Was the chicken names Delaware Joe?
The reporter is ignorant. A chicken is not an animal.
Which democrat politician is it?
Of course it is. It’s a member of the kingdom ‘animalia’.
From Wiki:
“any of a kingdom (Animalia) of living things including many-celled organisms and often many of the single-celled ones (such as protozoans) that typically differ from plants in having cells without cellulose walls, in lacking chlorophyll and the capacity for photosynthesis, in requiring more complex food materials (such as proteins), in being organized to a greater degree of complexity, and in having the capacity for spontaneous movement and rapid motor responses to stimulation.’
You may be thinking of ‘mammal’, which has a different mening.
Sure it is. Not a mammal, but an animal.
You know the government’s going to take credit for it.
If so, it’s taken them about 80 years to do it...
I think it ran for President.
Fruita, Colorado, close to the Utah border, is the home of Mike the Headless Chicken. There is an annual festival in his name. A tiny sliver of Mike’s brain was left behind and that’s what kept him going, along with water and soft food from an eyedropper.
Well we just had a president who “presided” 4 years without a brain...so that beats the headless chicken!
“I bet democRATs could live without a head. Anyone want to do an experiment?”
I like that idea!
Maybe a "manimal?"
Regards,
Colorado is overrun with DemocRATS so this really isn’t that strange.
“ However, just think of how many times that chicken voted for Democrats.”
A mail in ballot had to be used.
Getting to the voting location would have been difficult
This reminds me of something that happened in my early life.
A family tradition was that anyone who had a birthday got to choose the birthday dinner fare. My mother’s sister showed up in advance of her birthday with a live guinea hen in the trunk of her car.
We knew she was bringing it, but never guessed that it would be alive.
My mom had no idea what to do with it, but she knew a local farmer. The farmer knew exactly what to do, so while I watched, he chopped its head off on a tree stump. The carcass ran around for a while making squawking noises, and within a minute or so, it dropped dead.
I can’t imagine what would have happened if it refused to die!
Must have been a Democrat chicken - Dems have proven they don’t need brains to exist....
Animal
Vegetable
Mineral
Pick one.....................
I read of this in Ripley’s Believe it or not decades ago.
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