E05 - Mike the Headless Chicken: 18 Months Without a Head
On September 10, 1945, a Colorado farmer named Lloyd Olsen cut the head off a rooster for supper. The rooster didn't seem to notice. He kept walking, kept trying to peck and preen, and lived for about eighteen more months.
This is the true story of Mike the Headless Chicken: an eyedropper diet, a trip to the University of Utah to prove it wasn't a hoax, a national sideshow tour at 25 cents a look, fan mail from strangers, one bad night in a Phoenix motel, and a small town that still throws him a festival every May. Plus the real science of how a chicken can live without a head (hint: it's…
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