Mike the Headless Chicken

This is really just to push down that picture in the previous post so that the first thing you see is not a girl in bikini

So about this headless chicken...

Well, its a ghost captured by a camera sometime ago near my house in the middle of the Australia Outback...yea, right...donoe why I do this a lot today...

Anyway, he used to live in Colorado, a farmer Lloyd Olsen, had his mother-in-law for supper(i know how that sounds...but meh...) so he decided to celebrate by killing it(the chicken, not the mom)...apparently, either the axe was blunt, or he had a bad aim, the head was only half decapitated (Nearly Headless Mike...^^) so anyway, the chicken survived with one ear, and his brain stem(thats equivalent to brain for humans, not judging by intelligence...lol)

And it survived!! It's fed a mixture of water and milk through an eyedropper, and small grains...occasionally, it chokes on its mucus, whereby Olsen would clear it using a syringe..it even put on weight, from 2.5 pounds at the time of beheading to 8 pounds at death. It earned the family $4000 per month (equivalent to $50000 in 2005 dollars)... This led to a series of beheading of chickens by people who attempt to create another Mike, although some chickens survive, they live for a maximum of 1-2days...

One night, while on a roadshow, Mike started choking on his own mucus, sadly, the family had left his syringe behind, Mike passed away(lol...) the following day... However, he lives on in some people's memory and hearts, iniating the Headless Chicken Day(3rd weekend of May) at his hometown of Fruita, Colorado