Editor’s note: We originally ran this story in 2023 but thought you might enjoy reading about it again. We certainly did! What a bizarre story. In November 1904, a headless hen, intended to be someone ...

FRUITA, Colorado ” Recession. Unemployment. Swine flu. Now’s the time for an inspiring story from Fruita, Colorado about one headless chicken’s will to live. Residents of Fruita, a western Colorado ...

FRUITA • A fifth-generation farmer is busy tending his fields when he’s asked about the chicken. Again. “Yeah,” Troy Waters says. “Everybody asks me about the chicken.” Only because he’s most familiar ...

On Colorado’s Western Slope, a headless chicken from the 1940s is still a beloved figure celebrated each spring. In 1945, Mike the Headless Chicken captured the intrigue of locals in his hometown of ...

What: For nearly 20 years, Fruita, Colo., has held Mike the Headless Chicken Days, a two-day festival in celebration of a chicken who lived for 18 months after his head was cut off. Sure, Mike was ...