I read this up in an article and they have no idea...
2007-06-14 11:22:21 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pets ➔ Other - Pets
I think you are talking about Mike the headless chicken. In fact Mike was not completely headless.
So how was Mike able to survive? Scientists examined him and determined that Mr. Olsen had not done a very good job at chopping Mike's head off. Most of the head was actually removed, but one ear remained intact. The slice actually missed the jugular vein and a clot prevented him from bleeding to death. Apparently, most of a chicken's reflex actions are located in the brain stem, which was also largely untouched. Mike was also examined by the officers of several humane societies and was declared to have been free from suffering.
2007-06-14 15:41:02 · answer #1 · answered by Prodigy556 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was watching Ripley's believe it or not and they had a story about a headless chicken. Supposedly some chickens just survive on involuntary actions. Kinda like an amputee who still has feeling in his lost limb. The owners of the animal still have it feed it intravenously, but it doesn't harm the chicken to keep living without a head.
2007-06-14 11:33:11 · answer #2 · answered by finch momma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I watched this movie in ag class. It was a true story where this chicken got its head cut off...but it still walked around for long after...instead of finishing it off, the man decided to keep it alive. They had to keep and eye dropper to suck the mucus out from the exposed esophogus to keep him alive. It was a weird story...but they took the chicken to all sorts of places showing him off. He died a couple of months later because they lost the eye dropper and the chicken choked on the mucas. Well, its pretty weird isn't it?
2007-06-14 11:28:15 · answer #3 · answered by Cash--Rescue, Foster, Adopt! 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oh this is mike the headless chicken. well there is a theory of people saying that the brainstem for some reason was somewhat intact but i think thats impossible since the chicken was cut at the next. for some odd reason, that chicken was still clucking. maybe it just wasnt his time tog o to chicken heaven =D
2007-06-14 11:27:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is the nerves and the heart that keeps it alive, but very shortly. I used to live on a farm and we had chickens, and when it came time to kill them they would run around for about 1 minute , then collapse.
2007-06-14 11:27:52 · answer #5 · answered by gert14 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Thats a good question!
Who knows...
Also cockroaches can live without there heads for up to 2 weeks!
2007-06-14 11:26:51 · answer #6 · answered by ஐ♥Sabine♥ஐ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We hacked off our rooster's heads and one still moved around. He wasn't alive but the blood was still moving through his internal organs causing the reflex of movement.
2007-06-14 11:28:47 · answer #7 · answered by willy444 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it can still live for like probally 1 to 2 minutes running around crazily and then it will proballyy collapse and pass out
2007-06-14 12:06:14 · answer #8 · answered by syd. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They are not a live anmore they are flailing around because of they're reflexes
2007-06-14 11:31:21 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
it takes time for all the blood to drain from its body so they are able to move around until its all out.
2007-06-14 13:07:01 · answer #10 · answered by dancingdiva 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋