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Mike the Headless Chicken

(April 20, 1945 – March 17, 1947)[1] was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot. After the beheading, Mike achieved national fame until his death in March 1947.

MikeOther name(s)Miracle Mike Species Gallus gallus domesticus BreedWyandotte SexMaleHatchedApril 20, 1945 Fruita, Colorado, U.S.DiedMarch 17, 1947 (aged 23 months) Phoenix, Arizona, U.S.Cause of deathDeath by chokingOwnerLloyd OlsenAppearanceSideshows Mike the Headless Chicken(April 20, 1945 – March 17, 1947)[1] was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact and it did not bleed to death due to a blood clot. On September 10, 1945, farmer Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, United States, was planning to eat supper with his mother-in-law and was sent out to the yard by his wife to bring back a chicken. "Specializations in the lumbosacral vertebral canal and spinal cord of birds: evidence of a function as a sense organ which is involved in the control of walking".

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