Key facts
- Other name
- Miracle Mike
- Species
- Gallus gallus domesticus
- Breed
- Wyandotte
- Sex
- Male
- Hatched
- April, 1945, Fruita, Colorado , U.S.
- Died
- March 17, 1947 (aged 23 months), Phoenix, Arizona , U.S.
- Cause of death
- Death by choking
- Owner
- Lloyd Olsen
- Appearance
- Sideshows
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Gender
- male organism
- Place of birth
- Fruita
- Place of death
- Phoenix
- Official website
- www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/index.php
- Image
- Mike the Headless Chicken - Wikiworld crop.png
- Significant event
- decapitation
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Encyclopedic overview
Mike the Headless Chicken (April, 1945 – March 17, 1947) was a male Wyandotte chicken that lived for 18 months after he was beheaded, surviving because most of his brain stem remained intact, and a blood clot prevented him from bleeding to death. After the beheading, Mike achieved national fame; he died in March 1947. In his hometown, Fruita, Colorado, U.S., an annual "Mike the Headless Chicken Day" is held in May. Mike has the record for the longest surviving chicken without a head in Guinness World Records.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mike the Headless Chicken” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.