Mike’s full headless body in view, with his head next to his feet. By Pierre Boulle. Source: CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

Mike the Headless Chicken—The Rooster That Defied Death

On September 10, 1945 in a dry town in Colorado called Fruita, a farmer by the name of Lloyd Olsen was trying to prepare an evening meal for his family with the help of a chicken. What then followed was no ordinary barnyard mishap. When Olsen’s axe chopped off the head of a young Wyandotte