They run around for a bit and I heard one chicken lived for six weeks or something and the owner fed it through the hole.
2007-08-22 21:38:35 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
this is very disturbing lol
2007-08-22 21:43:17 · answer #1 · answered by Rizz 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
After the head is removed the body is briefly controlled by the leftover electrical impulses still in the spinal cord. With no direction from the brain, those impulses are not controlled, which explains why sometimes a chicken will run or flap its wings, and sometimes it will simply flop around. As for the chicken who lived without a head for six weeks, that has to be fiction. The brain stem controls essential involuntary funtions such as heartbeat and breathing. With the brain stem removed these functions will stop, resulting in the death of the chicken, and rather quickly.
2007-08-23 04:55:26 · answer #2 · answered by misanthropic_cynic 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Any animal's body may move around a bit after a violent death, just from random nerve impulses causing muscles to contract. A chicken does not "live" with its head chopped off, but it may move around a bit. Six weeks? Nope! Not even six minutes! In the same way a snake with its head chopped off will writhe around for a short while.
2007-08-23 11:56:23 · answer #3 · answered by PaulCyp 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is not generally true but a farmer did chop of part of a chickens head and it survived for a very long time, probably the six weeks you are thinking of. If the whole head was chopped off it would die very quickly.
2007-08-23 04:50:47 · answer #4 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
When they run after having their heads chopped off, their bodies are still pumping adrenalin, which causes it to run. I don't think it is possible for a chicken to live for six weeks after having it's head chopped off. But who am I to say its not possible? If anything, the chicken would have bled to death after the first couple of hours
2007-08-23 04:49:55 · answer #5 · answered by Joeley7 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that is just a story.
They do flop around a bit though. Just because the head is gone, doesn't mean the body just stops working. There is still blood moving to the organs and there is still information being passed down the spine. For a very short while.
2007-08-23 04:43:50 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
What you heard was nonsense. They move for about 1 minute after their heads are cut off. This is a reaction of their muscles and nerves and has nothing to do with their being alive. After the tremors, the chicken no longer moves and it is most certainly dead.
2007-08-23 14:20:48 · answer #7 · answered by SC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as long u dont cut off the major vessels & arteries it can still live. but it would be hard to imagine being the chicken. wanna know how it feels? just put on a paper bag and dont take it out for the rest of your life.
2007-08-23 05:04:46 · answer #8 · answered by whatagowk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that story is true. The chicken's head was not completely severed; the brain stem was still intact. Inhumane? Yes. But it did happen.
2007-08-23 18:35:55 · answer #9 · answered by Amanda T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
They don't. Its just their bodies nerves are still active for a little bit after the head is gone.
2007-08-23 04:42:45 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
They can't. They're dead without any brain activity which is located in the head....so without the head they can't live.
2007-08-23 04:43:51 · answer #11 · answered by spongebob 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋