Mike, the headless chicken

Meet Mike, the "wonder chicken," or at least he was in his formative years. Now he is in that chicken coop in the sky...though his head went about 18 months before the rest of his body did. Check out the story of Mike at www.miketheheadlesschicken.org for all the fun pictures and information you could want. Learn how to feed a headless chicken with an eyedropper and fatten him up from 2 lbs to a whopping 8 lbs!! Eat your heart out Colonel Sanders!! Mark, you should TOTALLY visit Mike's spirit weekend celebration in Fruita, CO the third weekend in May! Ask Wilson for the weekend off :)

According to a report in the Enquirer, Mike was indeed able to reproduce...they apparently bred him with all the ugly hens because he couldn't tell how U-G-L-Y they was. The chicks were big and ugly, but all had functioning heads. If Mike had had lips on the head that he didn't have, he would have passed on the valuable information to all of his head ugly (as opposed to butt ugly) children to "Run, run away from the axe!!" Instead he taught them how to crow, with a gurgling twist. So somewhere up in Fruita Colorado, if you're quiet enough in the cool of the evening right after the sun goes down over the mountains, you can hear the gentle gurgling of head ugly chickens....Mike's only legacy (well, besides an annual celebration in his honor, appearances in Time Magazine, a website, and a descriptive paragraph in the 2002 Guiness Book of World Records). Cocka-doodle-gurgle....gurgle...gurgle

Brought to you by Gracie Lou and Nesian :) (rated PG.....get it? haha)