The following is from Livescience.com concerning the myth about chickens living without a head:
"True, and not just for a few minutes. A chicken can stagger around without its noggin because the brain stem, often left partially intact after a beheading, controls most of its reflexes. One robust fellow lived a full eighteen months. Likely he was a real birdbrain, however. "
http://www.livescience.com/bestimg/index.php?url=myths_chicken_head_03.jpg&cat=myths
How is this even possible? The way this is stated, a chicken's body lived for 18 months. Wouldn't the body starve to death?
2007-12-21 03:35:39 · 12 answers · asked by Scott 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
They cut off the head of that particular chicken - whose name escapes me - but failed to completely remove the brainstem. The axe severed the spinal cord just above the medulla oblongata - the part that controls heartbeat and respiration and the most basic of functions. It was in the early 1900s in Canada, I think.
And once they realised that he was around and not dead, they fed him by dropping bits of grain down the oesophagus (birds don't have teeth anyway so the grain goes down whole) because they had a headless chicken and hey, they could see a money spinner when it wandered past them headless.
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How long can a chicken live without its head?
The following is from Livescience.com concerning the myth about chickens living without a head:
"True, and not just for a few minutes. A chicken can stagger around without its noggin because the brain stem, often left partially intact after a beheading, controls most of its reflexes. One...
2015-08-07 01:45:01 · answer #4 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to assume they fed the decapitated chicken through a tube of some sort.
Now here is something even stranger with chickens - their vocal cords are also down inside their neck and when you cut their heads off they can still squawk - from a headless body. The mouth on the head is still moving, but the sound is coming from the flopping body - wooooo
2007-12-21 03:46:44 · answer #5 · answered by Prophet 1102 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
When I was young going to the store was completely different. We bought live chickens and killed, picked, and froze them ourselves. When the older men cut the heads off the young kids had to run catch the chickens before they ran off someplace. Oh the good old days? LOL
2007-12-21 03:41:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
When you cut off the head of a chicken it is dead and not alive. The movements of the dead chicken is based in impulses sent to create muscular contractions. These impulses were delivered via the central nervous system to the peripheral nervous system before the chicken was decapitated.
2007-12-21 03:49:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
The first question I would ask when reading a statement like the one given is, "What is his definition of death?" It is true that tissues from different organs do not die at the same rate, other wise doctors would not be able to attach severed limbs. My guess is that his definition of alive would not fit the same definition that most people have.
2007-12-21 03:45:04 · answer #8 · answered by Mr Cellophane 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
if you take the rest of the head off and not the nose it can live for about 3 years!!!
2015-05-09 08:35:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think the last chicken who survive that curse died when it choked on a piece of corn.......id say about a week
2007-12-21 03:41:46 · answer #10 · answered by •Sir Leon• 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋