MetaFilter posts tagged with chicken and headless

Cluck?

quin — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:06:14 -0800

Mike the headless chicken was a rooster who lived for 18 months after he was beheaded. In that time he grew from 2 1/2 to almost 8 pounds. When the veracity of this was questioned, the owner brought it to the University of Utah to have it's authenticity confirmed.

adrober — Mon, 19 Nov 2001 17:57:10 -0800

Sculpture honors chicken who lived 18 months without a head. This sentence really touched me: "Olsen started putting feed and water directly into Mike's gullet with an eyedropper."

poodle — Mon, 05 Feb 2001 18:25:53 -0800

Lost but not forgotten? My days of not consuming animals based on the assumption that they are thinking, feeling beings may be swayed by this article on a chicken that lived four and a half years…without a head.

plinth — Wed, 10 May 2000 06:01:06 -0800

Mike The Headless Chicken Festival [via memepool]- Check out the ad for Wendy's Chicken Sandwhich further down. Somethings are just too good to be true.