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Martin

Martin

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... that a turkey can drown if it looks up while it's raining?

Well, it can, you know?

Cheers
 
Yeah, it's not like they have much to live for :D

BTW, what's it like living in a non-existant country? :eek:
 
On a similar (sort of) subject - did you know that the longest a chicken survived without its head is 18 mths? They fed and watered it through its neck. In the end it died by choking on something.

True story - I read it in the Guiness Book of Records whilst I was on holiday last week.

I think his name was Monty (although I may have made that up).

I also once saw a headless chicken running around an alleyway while I was in Africa when I was a kid - man that freaked me about - hence the obssesion with headless chickens. In case you wondered. :rolleyes:
 
Ashlea said:
What's great is that Ostriches just as stupid as turkeys, and very, very large.
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And, as Flanders and Swann wrote a song about them, they are superior to turkeys in every way.

*Goes off to stick head in the sand*
 
headpodd said:
On a similar (sort of) subject - did you know that the longest a chicken survived without its head is 18 mths? They fed and watered it through its neck. In the end it died by choking on something.

True story - I read it in the Guiness Book of Records whilst I was on holiday last week.

I think his name was Monty (although I may have made that up).

I also once saw a headless chicken running around an alleyway while I was in Africa when I was a kid - man that freaked me about - hence the obssesion with headless chickens. In case you wondered. :rolleyes:
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Got a link?

BTW what did monty choke on?
 
Themistocles said:
And, as Flanders and Swann wrote a song about them, they are superior to turkeys in every way.

*Goes off to stick head in the sand*
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Maybe you can condense the Flanders and Swann reference with another so that the ostriches put their head in the oven while Flanders & Swann sing The Gasman. :)
 
Abulafia said:
Maybe you can condense the Flanders and Swann reference with another so that the ostriches put their head in the oven while Flanders & Swann sing The Gasman. :)
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With a gnu wallowing in mud stuffing an olive in the background, naturally.
 
Here is the link quoted for those not willing to do the search as mentioned by mr_michel
Longest Surviving Headless Chicken

On September 10, 1945, a Wyandotte chicken belonging to Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorado, USA, had its head chopped off, but went on to survive for 18 months. Mike's owner, Lloyd Olsen of Fruita, Colorada, USA, fed and watered the headless chicken directly into his gullet using an eyedropper. Mike eventually choked to death one night in an Arizona motel.

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Sceptical scientists thought it was a hoax, so one week into Mike-the-headless-chicken’s physically-altered life, farmer Lloyd Olsen packed Mike up and took him on a cross-country tour from Fruita, Colorado to the University Of Utah in Salt Lake City. The axe blade, scientists discovered, had missed the five-and-a-half month old Wyandotte rooster’s jugular vein, and a clot had saved the chicken from bleeding to death.

Because Lloyd had aimed the axe so high, most of the brain stem was left at the top of the spine. One ear had also survived. Mike, it seemed, had lost the power to see and to cluck, but could still hear and think. Mike was also growing, weighing 1.1 kg. (2.5 lb.) when he first lost his head, and developing to a respectable 3.6 kg. (8 lb.) by the time he passed away.

Celebrity status was guaranteed when a manager took the chicken on a national tour, and his story was reported in well-respected news magazines Life and Time. Like many legendary celebrities, Mike’s life ended in a hotel room. Mike began to choke and Lloyd was unable to find the eyedropper to clear Mike’s esophagus. It was the end of the road for Mighty Mike. Gone but certainly not forgotten, Mike’s life is celebrated each year by Fruita residents, who simply remember him as, “a big, fat chicken who didn’t know he didn’t have a head”.
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Absolutely WIERD But my question is what the hell was Mike doing in a motel. Had he been down the pub and choked on his own vomit after a heavy session? :D
 
Carlos said:
But my question is what the hell was Mike doing in a motel. Had he been down the pub and choked on his own vomit after a heavy session? :D
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damn prezelts :mad:

Carlos said:
most of the brain stem was left at the top of the spine. One ear had also survived. Mike, it seemed, had lost the power to see and to cluck, but could still hear and think
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not so spectacular after all, mike was the faceless chicken, not the headless chicken :rolleyes: even a turkey would survive like that :D
 
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