Colorado Man Resuscitates Chicken

[QueenScoopalot]

http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/a...=D89FQ35O0.xml
Colorado Man Resuscitates Chicken

COLLBRAN, Colo.

First there was Mike the Headless Chicken, a rooster that survived for 18 months after having its head lopped off with an ax.

Now, western Colorado has a new chicken survival story, this one involving a man who claims he saved his fowl by giving it mouth-to-beak resuscitation.

Uegene Safken says one of the chickens in his young flock had gotten into a tub of water in the yard last week and appeared to have died.

Safken said he first swung the chicken by the feet to revive it. When that failed, he continued swinging and blowing into its beak.

"Then one eye opened. I thought it was an involuntary response," Safken said. The chicken's beak opened a little wider, and Safken started yelling at it: "You're too young to die!

"Every time I'd yell at him, he'd chirp," Safken said.

Mike the Headless Chicken survived a beheading in 1945 in Fruita, Colo. Afterward, Mike could go through the motions of pecking for food, and when he tried to crow, a gurgle came out. His owner put feed and water directly into Mike's gullet with an eyedropper.

Scientists examined the chicken and theorized Mike had enough of a brain stem left to live headless. He was a popular attraction until he choked to death on a corn kernel.

[flamepony12]

lol! Strange!

Originally posted by QueenScoopalot
His owner put feed and water directly into Mike's gullet with an eyedropper.

eww... >.<

[moosmom]

Okay RICHARD, here's your chance!!!

What's a gullet??

[Prairie Purrs]

We're a little bit strange here in Colorado. There's a festival in Fruita, CO, every year honoring Mike the Headless Chicken. And in Nederland each year they have Frozen Dead Guy Days in honor of a do-it-yourself cryogenics job--a fellow put his grandpa on ice in a Tuff Shed.

[QueenScoopalot]

Originally posted by moosmom
Okay RICHARD, here's your chance!!!

What's a gullet??

A word they use for bird throats...
.Main Entry: gul·let
Pronunciation: 'g&-l&t
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English golet, from Middle French goulet, diminutive of goule throat, from Latin gula —more at GLUTTON
Date: 14th century
1 : ESOPHAGUS; broadly : THROAT

Here's one of many websites 'celebrating'?? Mike the headless chicken.
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/
I haven't eaten chicken in over 25 years now...and have no intentions of doing so. Not to mention other warm blooded critters...thanks, but I'll pass.

[ramanth]

Glad he saved the chicken.