Waters heard the story as a boy, when his bedridden great-grandfather came to live in his parents' house. The two had adjacent bedrooms, and the old man, often sleepless, would talk for hours. He threw it in the wagon, took the chicken in with him and started betting people beer or something that he had a live headless chicken. Word spread around Fruita about the miraculous headless bird.
The local paper dispatched a reporter to interview Olsen, and two weeks later a sideshow promoter called Hope Wade travelled nearly miles from Salt Lake City, Utah.
He had a simple proposition: take the chicken on to the sideshow circuit - they could make some money. First they visited Salt Lake City and the University of Utah, where the chicken was put through a battery of tests. Rumour has it that university scientists surgically removed the heads of many other chickens to see whether any would live. They went to California and Arizona, and Hope Wade took Mike on a tour of the south-eastern United States when the Olsens had to return to their farm to collect the harvest.
The bird's travels were carefully documented by Clara in a scrapbook that is preserved in the Waters's gun safe today. People around the country wrote letters - 40 or 50 in all - and not all positive. One compared the Olsens to Nazis, another from Alaska asked them to swap Mike's drumstick in exchange for a wooden leg.
Some were addressed only to "The owners of the headless chicken in Colorado", yet still found their way to the family farm. After the initial tour, the Olsens took Mike the Headless Chicken to Phoenix, Arizona, where disaster struck in the spring of Mike was fed with liquid food and water that the Olsens dropped directly into his oesophagus. Another vital bodily function they helped with was clearing mucus from his throat.
They fed him with a dropper, and cleared his throat with a syringe. The night Mike died, they were woken in their motel room by the sound of the bird choking. These can continue to send signals for minutes after a chicken has been butchered. Related — This is how chickens imprint on humans. The brains are about the size of a couple of peanuts side by side. Interestingly, their brains are actually small in comparison to the size of their bodies. According to ScienceDaily , this is largely due to selective breeding over thousands of years.
Intelligence is always hard to measure, especially when we are naturally going to compare chickens to us or maybe even ever household pets. However, there is a good amount of evidence to suggest chickens are actually quite smart.
Chickens have demonstrated a range of skills, such as social reasoning, problem-solving, and even the ability to make adjustments based on previous experiences. There you go, from stories about the miracle chicken that lived for 18 months without a head, to how chickens have brains the size of peanuts but are still super smart. There was one cockerel who became known as Miracle Mike , who had his head chopped off and carried on living for another 18 months!
Mike was kept alive for all that time by dripping milk and water into what was left of his throat, and he used to walk around just as he had always done. Some scientists have noticed that frogs that have had their brain destroyed which should kill them will hop towards the light from a window. And if something is in their way, they will hop round it.
If the same frog is put in water it will try to reach the surface, and if a jar is put over it while it is in the water, it will dive down to get out of the jar and up to the surface. It seems impossible, but actually it depends on which bits of the brain have been damaged.
If the back parts of the brain, the brain stem and medulla oblongata, for those who are interested are not completely destroyed, then the frog can still do many movements.
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