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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Izzy on September 10, 2015, 04:26:29 pm

Title: Headless chicken
Post by: Izzy on September 10, 2015, 04:26:29 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34198390 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34198390)

Title: Re: Headless chicken
Post by: Caroline1 on September 10, 2015, 04:48:39 pm

Yeah read that, have to admit my first thought was that sounds like animal cruelty and you probably couldn't get away with now.

Title: Re: Headless chicken
Post by: doganjo on September 12, 2015, 08:46:25 pm

I can't look at that if there are pictures but if it's the one I heard of years ago that lived for more than a year after it's head was cut off that is pure rubbish - no head=no beak= no food intake = no nutrients to body = body dies.  Pretty well instantly i'd have thought

Title: Re: Headless chicken
Post by: Izzy on September 12, 2015, 11:34:27 pm

The picture is not that gruesome. It was fed by dropper, apparently

Title: Re: Headless chicken
Post by: Clansman on September 13, 2015, 08:16:06 am

Yep it was hand fed.

I found one in a commercial rearing farm many years ago that looked the same after getting its head caught in machinery but it was culled.