Comments on The Phoenix: Mike, The Headless Chicken

I came across this story in the middle of a very t...

2007-11-12T00:39:00.000-06:00

I came across this story in the middle of a very tense debate in which some of my fellow colleagues became quite belligerent and refused to believe in poor 'lil Mike's vulgar yet inspiring tale.

Coming across this blog was the metaphysical equivalent of Mikey finding a head. What I mean to say, is that, in short, this website has touched Honolulu, Hawaii and the soul of a supple young woman who though that she'd never get by in this cruel and unusual *winks* world we call home. In short, Mike's story has inspired me to not only tears, but poetry:

Without
a head, without
you, in this
lonesome home so
much like my sev
ered jugular.
Live
to need.

Need
to live,
Life doesn't
suck it blow
s.

-- Keely Schneider

I came across this story in the middle of a very t...

2007-11-12T00:37:00.000-06:00

UNBELIEVABLE!!! I don"t Believe it..No matter who ...

2007-09-05T18:55:00.000-05:00

UNBELIEVABLE!!! I don"t Believe it..No matter who says what, for reasons I have listed below.

#1. I bought, sold & raised Baby Chicks & chickens and they have too long a neck for the story to be true, its impossible for an ear, to have survived that slaughter, since the PIC... shows it cut at its base. (Grown chicken Necks are normaly 4 ins long, & The Ear is located in the head area,)

#2. The brain stem (Spinal Cord) may have survived, but what part of the brain was it attached to so the bird could have sustained normal re/actions, or normal movements which are sent from the "brain signals" back to the limbs etc.
BRAIN WAVES are necessary to walk, run, breath, etc...& Though anything else may have been possible He Had No Brain.
However I do believe he could have fed the chicken straight into the crock "SEE PIC."

#3. All the chickens I ever chopped the heads off, Did Bleed to an extent that we would have, our heads being chopped off. Besides the blood loss alone should have ment death.

#4. You can tell the whole neck was severed because of the location of the birds "Crock" SEE PIC.(food pocket, below the neck = it fills as the bird eats & balloons as he gets full, then it holds the food there until its slowly digested)SEE PICS:
This alone, left no room for the arguement that he may have left an ear. (Located in the head region)

BUT OK;
LETS SAY HE DID HAVE ONE EAR LEFT>

1. How can an ear keep anything alive?
2. How did it move about with normal reflexes?
3. How did it Breath?
4. How did it Survive the other chickens until the next day(the other chickens should have killed it)?
5. How did his limbs get the brain signles to move, when there was no brain (natural action? NO) ?
6. How did it Digest its food(need brain signals for that too)?
7. Even if it did survive the event..It could not have lived 18 months, 1 hr. is stretching it (I think).?
8. How did he know where the barn/hen house was ? & how did he go straight over to it ?
9. How did the complete circulation of its blood system work so that its blood sustained all its body parts & functions ?

does anyone have a video of this chicken as i dont...

2007-06-21T02:29:00.000-05:00

does anyone have a video of this chicken as i dont believe it. email it to me please Lucas@bsmsport.com.au

yo, that's crazy

2007-02-03T15:46:00.000-06:00

yo, that's crazy

wow!!! that's some messed up stuff!

2007-02-03T15:44:00.000-06:00

wow!!! that's some messed up stuff!

That's gross! Eww. Why would you want to keep a ...

2006-11-14T17:15:00.000-06:00

That's gross! Eww. Why would you want to keep a chicken with its head cut off that long? Sick!

LOL Phoenix - you promoted no more than three othe...

2006-02-25T23:41:00.000-06:00

LOL Phoenix - you promoted no more than three other blogs other than yourself in this blog entry. You going for a record? Thanks for spreading the wealth of your fellow readers around, even though I wasn't one of them (I'm not complaining, it was nice of you to spread it around either way)

On another note, the poor chicken like Siren said. I feel kind of bad for him. But if you think about it for more than 2 seconds, it will start to be funnier and funnier because of the way he fed him a such? 18 month should be a world record sheesh!

I read about this chicken before. It's an amazing ...

2006-02-24T10:08:00.000-06:00

I read about this chicken before. It's an amazing story.

Congrats on your 100th post - and 30,000 hits? Wh...

2006-02-23T14:20:00.000-06:00

Congrats on your 100th post - and 30,000 hits? Whoooeeee that's awesome, Phoenix!

When I was young I used to have to help on the far...

2006-02-23T13:23:00.000-06:00

When I was young I used to have to help on the farm when they butchered chickens. I remember my grandpa chopping the head off of a chicken and letting it run around for our benefit.

The memory clearly sticks in my mind to this day. We laughed and laughed as it ran into the side of the barn and through the crowd of people helping. It was the weirdest thing I had ever seen. One thing is for sure - they would die within minutes and just flop over.

Mike was a special chicken indeed.

I don't think it's that cruel. I mean, to the chi...

2006-02-23T11:40:00.000-06:00

I don't think it's that cruel. I mean, to the chicken it probably just seemed like he laid his head down on the stump and then suddenly "Hey! I'm Blind!".

He was probably irritated at first, but like most folks he learned to deal with his disability. Perhaps his lack of sight would have sharpened his other senses and he would have become a great musician.

If not for the mucus.

That is to cool. I guess its a possibility.Hey, h...

2006-02-22T23:48:00.000-06:00

That is to cool. I guess its a possibility.

Hey, how did you know Angel, was your 30,000 hit? Can you see who actually reads your blog without them making a comment?

That story seems almost too good to be true, but i...

2006-02-22T15:05:00.000-06:00

That story seems almost too good to be true, but it is indeed interesting. Now I can say that I am running around like Mike but then I might have to explain the whole story about the headless chicken every time I say it.

You're messing with us, right?

2006-02-22T11:22:00.000-06:00

You're messing with us, right?

I love that story. Could've done without the mucus...

2006-02-22T11:07:00.000-06:00

I love that story. Could've done without the mucus though.... Total genius, I doff my hat to you sir.

Jamie D., I would venture to think that a turtle's...

2006-02-22T09:33:00.000-06:00

Jamie D., I would venture to think that a turtle's brain is more functional that a chicken's. Call me crazy.

Anhoni, Capitalism - strong even back in 1945.

Pixie, He could have ended up as dinner though.

L.B., If you start shrieking everytime you saw a chicken nugget - THEN it's time to worry.

TN Chick, reminds me of that scene in Napoleon Dynamite where the rancher shoots his cow right when the bus filled with children stops right in front of them.

Jenn, You can't fool me. You have that hot Latina blood in your veins. You'd make a clean cut.

I so would. At least try. No, really. Quit looking...

2006-02-22T08:55:00.000-06:00

I so would. At least try. No, really. Quit looking at me like that, Phoenix.

Ya know... growin' up in the country - I use to se...

2006-02-21T23:32:00.000-06:00

Ya know... growin' up in the country - I use to see some folks down the road chop their chickens every morning on my way by - via the school bus, to school. Broke my heart... make my stomach weak.

I cannot stop thinking about this poor chicken...I...

2006-02-21T21:23:00.000-06:00

I cannot stop thinking about this poor chicken...

I sat in traffic on the way home calculating 60 years on my fingers, contemplated 1.5 years without a head, and drove past Jack in the Box and decided against the Chicken Chiabatta sandwich...

I think I need therapy...this replaced my obsession from around the same time, The Black Dahlia...

That is horrible! Poor Mike.

2006-02-21T20:34:00.000-06:00

That is horrible! Poor Mike.

ew. i like how he was going to murder the chicken ...

2006-02-21T20:10:00.000-06:00

ew. i like how he was going to murder the chicken and when it became a freakshow (i.e. vehicle to make money) he spared it's life.

Many people survive even though they have heads.

2006-02-21T20:07:00.000-06:00

Many people survive even though they have heads.

Unbelievable!The mucus sucking part is gross. I'd...

2006-02-21T17:21:00.000-06:00

Unbelievable!
The mucus sucking part is gross. I'd like to have seen that chicken though.
$4500 a month isn't bad. I wonder if turtles can live without their heads? I have two turtles, and I'd be willing to give it a try.

Delmer, thanks for the help. Yeah, I wasn't in col...

2006-02-21T16:31:00.000-06:00

Delmer, thanks for the help. Yeah, I wasn't in college until 1991.

Fuzz, Wowza. I never thought of that. Behold the power of chicken.

Sherri, Gross. Sorry to have contributed to your nightmares tonight.

Brianalt, spoken like a true NJ man.
(Or Long Island)

Karen, where there's a jugular, there's a life.

Jim, if they could create walking chicken strips, I'm so there.

Mojotek, My first response to seeing this chicken not dying is to just kill it. Lucikly, Lloyd Olsen held that back that urge. Mike thrived, and acted like any chicken would. Like I said, many different Humane Societies examined Mike and found NO evidence of him suffering.

L.B. Don't forget the slaw and mashed taters. Save me a buttermilk biscuit.