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| He was nicknamed Mike the Headless Chicken |
If Lloyd Olsen hadn't wanted to please his mother-in-law, the world wouldn't have had the chance to see a chicken that survived decapitation.
It was September 10, 1945, when Lloyd Olson's mother-in-law wanted to come over for dinner at her daughter's house in Fruita, Colorado.
They wanted fried chicken, so Lloyd Olsen cut off the head of Mike, a 4-month-old chicken, for the purpose.
But the talented butcher did a little better, and the chicken's neck was mostly spared, and when the chicken, which weighed more than a kilogram, came out of the shock of cutting off its head, it began to move as usual.
The chicken's survival magic saved it from being part of the dinner table, but Lloyd Olsen left it to die in an empty box.
When the box was opened the next morning, Circuitta the chicken was still alive.
Why did this happen?
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| Chickens are drip fed |
When Lloyd Olsen goes to town in a horse-drawn carriage to sell dozens of chickens, he decides to take Mike with him.
Years later, Lloyd's great-grandson, Tory Waters, said in an interview that Lloyd Olson bet people while in town that he had a live circuit chicken.
On September 19, he introduced the chicken during a press conference in Salt Lake City.
On that occasion he said that every morning we expect Mike to be dead, but he is still healthy.
He added that Mike did not seem to know that his head had been cut off.
There, experts from the University of Utah examined Mike to see how he survived despite the severed head.
They discovered that most of Mike's brain and one ear were in the surviving aorta, while a clot stopped the bleeding from the wound, allowing him to survive.
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| Mike used to be hosted by this man |
A few years later, scientists shed more light on Mike's survival.
According to experts at the University of Arkansas, the chicken's skull has a large hole for the eyes, causing most of the brain to tilt at a 45-degree angle.
Similarly, Newcastle University researchers reported that the front of a chicken's head has very little brain, so even if part of the head is cut off, most of it remains, allowing it to breathe. . It moves, digests food and can do much more.
But here the question also arises, how after cutting the head was it possible to bring food to the body? So does Lloyd Olsen.
Mike's esophagus was working fine, so his owner fed him water, milk and grain through a dropper, eventually bringing the chicken's weight to about 8 pounds.
Mike's popularity and death
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| Statue of Mike |
Lloyd Olsen, along with his girlfriend Hope Weed, performed street microphone shows for 25 cents.
The rooster also received fan letters from Alaska and India, and Life magazine published a full article about him.
One night in January 1947, the chicken's airway became blocked and Lloyd Olson failed to open it in time, resulting in Mike's death within minutes.
According to Tori Waters, her great-grandfather hid Mike's death from people for a while.
There is still a statue of Mike in Fruita and an annual festival is held in his memory.
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