Can a chicken run without its head?

Answer 1

No.

A chicken that appears to have no head and is moving is either not really alive or is not really headless.

A chicken or any other animal cannot live without their head. When a chicken is killed in the manner where its head is detached from the rest of its body, it is clear to see that the nerves in the body of the carcass still twitch for a few seconds to a minute or so afterwords. To live suggests to keep going beyond the time after a set period, such as the chicken having it's head removed, again, like most other living things, once the head is removed from the body, it is therefore impossible to keep living.

Answer 2

It cannot. When a chicken's head is cut off there is sometimes still some very brief residual movement because of the nervous system shutting down, but the chicken is quite dead. ''I found their weakness. They're powerless without theirheads!''

Answer 3

A chicken can live about 2 years without its head!

A chicken was for the chop at a farm but the axe missed and didn't hit a certain nerve so the chicken survived for another 2 years!

It depends where you cut the chicken's head off because it could live for 2 years if you cut it's head off in the right place

Answer 4

First of all, most chickens don't live long after their heads are cut off, which makes sense since the point of cutting off the head is to kill the chicken. If the head is cut off completely and properly, the chicken should die and stay dead.

The reason some chickens survive a beheading is that sometimes the brain stem, or most of it, is left behind. The brain stem is what controls the chicken's reflexes and instincts--things like breathing, heartbeat, movement, and basic behaviors. Unlike insects and other lower lifeforms, chickens (like mammals) are dependent on their brains for metabolic regulation.

A chicken normally dies of shock, bleeding, difficulty breathing through a damaged trachea, or from damage to its brain stem or spinal cord. Even if it survives more than a few hours, it would still die of dehydration or starvation, being unable to eat without a head.

Mike is one of the most famous headless chickens (he traveled in sideshows, and was photographed for Time and Lifemagazines). After his head was cut off on September 10, 1945, he was kept alive for 18 months by his owner, who used an eyedropper to drip a mixture of ground-up corn kernels and water down the open throat. He finally died because his owner forgot or was unable to clean out his trachea, and the chicken suffocated.

Answer 5

Many studies done show complete removal of the head results in death within 5 to 15 seconds. Movement after that indicate residual muscular twitching and brain stem pre commands.

The tale of the headless chicken living for months was a botched chop job and the brain of the poor bird was left intact but exposed.

Answer 6

You MIGHT get some auto-motor reflex action. It IS possible, therefore, for a chicken to move for a few seconds after losing its head.

Answer 7

Yes a year and two months. well not for that long but it will live for some minutes

Answer 8

Yes. There have been reports of headless chicken living for days.

Answer 9

It could not. What you heard is an URBAN legend and is totally false.

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