Mike: The Headless Rooster

Here is a story that is bizarre....but very TRUE. This rooster lived for 18 months without a head! That's right...it all started when Clara Olsen asked her husband Lloyd to go out and dispatch one of the chickens for dinner that night. Mr. Olsen selected a chicken, put the head on the butcher block and lopped the head off.....only the chicken did not die. In fact he behaved as if nothing happened. The next morning Mr. Olsen found "Mike" the rooster still alive and sleeping with his head under his wing! He decided to try to feed Mike......so using an eyedropper, he just poured food and water directly into the neck and to his surprise, the rooster lived on. He continued to feed Mike and he went from weighing a couple of pounds to almost 8 pounds. Mr. Olsen took him on the road and charged 25 cents to see him. Finally, after 18 months, the unthinkable happened. In an Arizona hotel Mike started choking and Mr Olsen could not save him. But he remains a astounding example of the will to live. RIP Mike. Here is the link to his website http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.html