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	Mike the Headless Chicken - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mike (The Headless Chicken) (1945 – 1947) was a Wyandotte rooster (cockerel) that lived for 18 months after his head had been cut off.
		Mike was on display to the public for an admission cost of 25 cents, and at the height of his popularity was earning a princely $4,500 per month ($47,271.69 in 2005 dollars).
		Mike was later examined by the officers of several humane societies and was declared to have been free from suffering.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken (770 words)

	Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Because of the risk of flight, Chickens raised in the open air generally have one of their wings clipped by the breeder — the tips of the longest feathers on one of the wings are cut, resulting in unbalanced flight which the bird cannot sustain for more than a few meters.
		Chickens were spread by Polynesian seafarers and reached Easter Island in the 12th century AD, where they were the only Domestic animal, with the possible exception of the Polynesian Rat (''Rattus exulans'').
		Chickens, Indonesia In ancient Greece, the Chicken was not normally used for sacrifices, perhaps because it was still considered an exotic animal.
	chicken.iqnaut.net (2447 words)

	Mike the Headless Chicken
		Mike, of course, was not your ordinary chicken.
		Mike was also examined by the officers of several humane societies and was declared to have been free from suffering.
		Mike was traveling back home to Fruita and was roosting with the Olsens in their Phoenix motel room.
	home.nycap.rr.com /useless/headless_chicken (1360 words)

	HEADLESS MIKE: A TRUE STORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mike even attempted to preen his feathers with his nonexistent head (apparently he never noticed).
		One copycat headless rooster was named Lucky and he managed to live for eleven days before bashing himself into a stovepipe and dying (Lucky wasn't that lucky after all).
		At four-and-a-half years of age (some people disagree on the exact age, but it was without question a long time for a headless chicken), Mike choked to death on a kernel of corn.
	www.angelfire.com /zine/asdf/headless.html (665 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Mike the Headless Chicken - A2309627
		Mike, however, after taking a few understandably-shaky steps, fluffed up his feathers and went about his business in the barnyard with the other chickens of the non-headless variety, as though nothing of any great import had occurred.
		When Mike was still alive a week later, Olsen trundled him off to Salt Lake City to be examined at the University of Utah by scientists who presumably had dedicated themselves to the study of all things headless.
		Mike was also the subject of numerous photo shoots for magazines and newspapers, and was examined by scientists across the country.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/classic/A2309627 (903 words)

	Headless Chicken lives for months [Free Republic]
		Mike's fame faded out after he finally died from choking on a corn kernel, but now headless Mike is in for a revival of sorts.
		Mike the Headless Chicken Day will feature a 5K Run Like a Headless Chicken race, egg tosses, chicken jokes, a chicken lunch and chicken bingo, in which numbers are chosen by where chicken droppings fall on a numbered grid.
		Chickens have been known to flutter around for seconds or minutes after being decapitated, but after a few shaky steps, Mike fluffed up his feathers and went about his business in the barnyard with the other, heads on chickens.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3afc741523cf.htm (1676 words)

	News & Opinion: Cocky Horror (Nashville Scene . 04-24-00)
		Not that chickens, turkeys, and roach bugs are close kin or anything, but it's a scientific fact that a roach can live headless for days, even weeks.
		What Mike did have was a little bitty piece of brain stem--enough to keep his chicken heart and lungs going, and enough to keep him eating, pooping, walking, and flapping.
		Then, one fateful night, as Mike, the manager, and the Olsens were heading home from a stop on the Headless Chicken Tour, Mike choked on a kernel of corn.
	weeklywire.com /ww/04-24-00/nash_ol-helter_shelter.html (774 words)

	Man Saves Chicken With Mouth-to-Beak (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		First there was Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster that survived for 18 months after having its head lopped off with an ax.
		Uegene Safken says one of the chickens in his young flock had gotten into a tub of water in the yard last week and appeared to have died.
		Mike the Headless Chicken survived a beheading in 1945 in Fruita, Colo. Afterward, Mike could go through the motions of pecking for food, and when he tried to crow, a gurgle came out.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/04/16/entertainment/e192701D70.DTL (227 words)

	Active.com - Where running like a chicken with its head cut off is a badge of honor
		Mike was a chicken that survived a beheading some years back.
		Mike (it is unclear when this famous rooster took on the name) returned to his job of being a chicken, pecking for food and preening his feathers.
		Mike grew from 2 1/2 pounds to nearly 8 pounds during the reported 18 months he lived.
	www.active.com /story.cfm?story_id=2487&sidebar=17&category=ActiveusaH (1162 words)

	winterson.com: mike the headless chicken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		"in the 18 months that mike lived as 'the headless wonder chicken' he grew from a mere 2 1/2 lbs.
		in a gayle meyer interview olsen said mike was a 'robust chicken - a fine specimen of a chicken except for not having a head.'"
		could mike the headless chicken be the election spoiler of 2004?
	winterson.com /2004/06/mike-headless-chicken.html (68 words)

	NG BBS - Mike the headless chicken
		Mike’s predicament spelled doom for many a fine rooster, as scientists, experts, vivisectionists, and butchers all tried to match farmer Olsen’s miraculous feat, and they all failed miserably.
		Mike was ingesting his favorite meal--sweet corn--when one of the kernels being inserted into his exposed gullet got stuck.
		Fifty years after Mike’s mournful demise, his hometown of Fruita, Colorado celebrated the inaugural Mike the Headless Chicken Day--complete with chicken bingo, an egg toss, and, of course, chicken dinner in the park.
	www.newgrounds.com /bbs/topic.php?id=240183 (650 words)

	Mike
		Not any chicken, but a rooster named Mike, who when facing the overwhelming odds of having his head rent asunder from his body, was too brave (or perhaps too stupid) to die.
		It seems that Mike was completely oblivious to his new state of non-headedness and continued about the yard, even pecking at things with his now non existent head.
		Mike went to the University of Utah where it was decided that the axe had missed his brain stem and one ear, also fortunately missing his jugular vein and miraculously clotting to prevent him from bleeding to death.
	www.dadadisco.com /Mike/NEWMike.htm (955 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Mike the Headless Chicken
		Now, upon decapitation, chickens have been known to flutter about for as long as several minutes before realizing that they are, in fact, dead, whereupon they do the sensible thing and lie down quietly.
		When Mike was found to still be alive the following morning, Olsen decided that this was something that one didn't see every day, and no doubt recognizing the potential value of such an interesting oddity, began dropping grain and water into Mike's gullet by means of an eyedropper.
		Sadly, Mike's fame faded after he died from choking on a corn kernal or a blood clot, depending on the report.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/getwriting/A2264988 (747 words)

	Sculpture Honors Mike The Headless Chicken
		A sculpture of Mike - the Fruita, Colorado chicken that lived for 18 months in the 1940s minus his head - is being permanently installed in a flower planter on a downtown corner today.
		Mike belonged to the late Fruita farmer Lloyd Olsen, who, in an attempt to please his finicky mother-in-law, lopped off Mike's head at the base of the skull, leaving as much of the tasty neck as possible.
		When Mike was still alive a week later, Olsen took him to incredulous University of Utah scientists, who theorized Mike had enough of a brain stem left to live headless.
	www.rense.com /general/honor.htm (515 words)

	Natural World/Extraordinary Animals/Headless Chicken (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mike's owner, Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorada, USA, fed and watered the headless chicken directly into his gullet using an eyedropper.
		Mike eventually choked to death one night in an Arizona motel.
		Mike began to choke and Lloyd was unable to find the eyedropper to clear Mike’s esophagus.
	www.guinnessworldrecords.com /content_pages/record.asp?recordid=54463 (289 words)

	Mike the chicken - longest life as a headless chicken.
		Mike the chicken - longest life as a headless chicken.
		Mike the Headless Chicken became famous and began doing tours.
		Mike was fed a mixture of water and milk with an eyedropper, and occasionally he was fed corn.
	www.thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com /long13.html (192 words)

	Beans Around The World - Mike the Headless Chicken - Fruita, CO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mike's story began in September 1945, when local farmer Lloyd Olsen went out to his chicken coop and picked out a plump rooster, whose name up until that point was "Dinner".
		And then one night 18 months later, Mike the Headless Wonder sadly kicked the bucket, when he choked to death on some grain that went down the wrong pipe.
		The legend of Mike the Headless Chicken lives on today, in the form of the annual Mike The Headless Chicken Days festival here in Fruita.
	www.beans-around-the-world.com /mikechix.html (642 words)

	Colorado Man Resuscitates Chicken - Unexplained Mysteries Discussion Forums
		COLLBRAN, Colo. - First there was Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster that survived for 18 months after having its head lopped off with an ax.
		A chicken without a head can live for 18 months and have meaning for people, but we can't feel the same for innocent humans.
		Wouldn't Mike the headless chicken have bled to death?
	www.unexplained-mysteries.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=38349 (643 words)

	Fruita, Colorado - Statue of Mike the Headless Chicken
		Mike the Headless Chicken, also known as Miracle Mike, was a rooster who lived in Fruita, Colorado, in the 1940s.
		The Mike the Headless Chicken Days festival is held in May of every year.
		It is in honor of Mike the Headless Chicken, a chicken who lived for 18 months with no head.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==5629 (291 words)

	Salon Travel \| Mike the Headless Chicken Day
		Mike's nonchalance amazed Olsen, who watched as the headless fryer mingled with his fellow poultry and attempted to peck at corn kernels.
		He then launched a P.R. campaign to jump-start Mike's career, and soon the decapitated chicken was touring the country, posing for Life and Time magazines and garnering a listing in the Guinness Book of Records.
		Four-plus years later, Mike's life came to an end when a corn kernel became lodged in his gullet and he died of asphyxiation.
	archive.salon.com /travel/planet/2000/01/06/chicken (499 words)

	Salon People \| Mike the Headless Chicken more popular than Clinton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		While he's puffing away, President Clinton might find a little inspiration in Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster who strutted around, gobbled grain and preened for hens for four and a half years noggin-free, entertaining many while heading off a quick turn as one hungry farmer's dinner.
		History has been kind to Mike, who lost his head but not his spirit in 1945, and now the town that remembers him fondly has set aside a special Mike the Headless Chicken Day.
		Feting Mike was a no-brainer for Fruita officials.
	www.salon.com /people/col/reit/1999/05/12/snl/index.html (619 words)

	looking for mike the headless chicken
		You can find out a little more about Mike at The Official Mike the Headless Chicken Coop, which is...
		in the 18 months that mike lived as ' the headless wonder chicken ' he grew from a mere 2 1/2 lbs.
		in a gayle meyer interview olsen said mike was a 'robust chicken - a fine specimen...
	www.imode-nl.nl /mike_the_headless_chicken.html (259 words)

	Requiem For A Headless Chicken - CBS News
		The anthem for Mike the Headless Chicken that was used in the piece may be obtained by contacting jbugtom@aol.com.
		It's filled with "Headless" headlines from around the country, including a clipping from Life magazine (a full page in the science section), and a clipping from Time, in which he got better play than the guy who invented the atomic bomb.
		Tragically, Mike the chicken choked to death in an Arizona motel in 1947.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2000/10/06/sunday/main239251.shtml (862 words)

	Mike the Headless Chicken's Amazing Story
		Mike (it is unclear when the famous rooster took on the name) returned to his job of being a chicken.
		With an eyedropper Mike was given grain and water.
		The "Wonder Chicken" was valued at $10,000.00 and insured for the same.
	www.miketheheadlesschicken.org /story.html (546 words)

	Mike the Headless Chicken Days in Denver, CO - AOL City Guide
		His wife sent Olsen out to retrieve a plump chicken -- the now-infamous Mike -- for dinner, but even after Lloyd's doomsday ax fell, the lucky bird somehow still managed to grow another six pounds and live for another 18 months.
		In other words, if you're picking a weekend to devote to chicken consumption, this is the one.
		All told, the Mike the Headless Chicken Days event is a local tradition that doesn't look down its beak at big-city folk.
	cityguide.aol.com /denver/.../mike-the-headless-chicken-days/e-180172 (330 words)

	Mike the headless chicken o_0 - Gaming - ALL - Discussion Forum /// Eurogamer
		When Olsen found Mike the next morning, sleeping with his "head" under his wing, he decided that if Mike had that much will to live, he would figure out a way to feed and water him.
		You either kill the chicken and eat it.
		You either kill a chicken for meat or let the poor git live...
	www.eurogamer.net /forum_thread_posts.php?thread_id=36970&forum_id=1 (152 words)

	Jason Chase
		Mike survived beheading in 1945 in Fruita Colorado and lived headless for the following 18 months.
		I had heard that the owner of Mike had taken his headless wonder on a couple of tours of sideshows, I had a huge interest in the sideshow banner art at the time I learned about Mike and created a painting based on what I thought his banner would look like.
		Mike the Headless Chicken, 2001, 60" X 72", Oil on Canvas
	www.suburbanamerican.com /Mike.html (127 words)

	Mike the Headless Chicken
		The chicken did not die, and continued to "peck" for food as it walked around the yard.
		Fruita's Mike the Headless Chicken Festival is a smashing success, and a new Mike sculpture ("I made him proud-looking and cocky," the artist says) was recently unveiled downtown.
		Mike lived for 18 months after his head was chopped off.
	www.thisistrue.com /mike.html (540 words)

	Mike the Headless Chicken (Rooster)
		Instead of croaking and getting sent to the cooking pot, Mike the rooster wobbled away from the chopping block and resumed his temporarily interrupted barnyard activities with the rest of the heads-on chickens.
		They took Mike and Mike's head, which Olsen had preserved in alcohol, to Los Angeles, San Diego, Atlantic City and New York City.
		Gayle Meyer, who interviewed Olsen in the 1980s before he died, said he described Mike as "a robust chicken - a fine specimen of a chicken except for not having a head.'' Copyright 1999 The Denver Post.
	www.flickit.com /mike.html (646 words)

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