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I can do the chicken thing!!!!

How dare you!

Killing chickens: inhumane!

Reviving chickens: blasphemy!

Truly, you are damned! :D

Seriously though. What exactly happens when you stroke the chicken? Does it fall asleep?
 
Javalar said:
How dare you!

Killing chickens: inhumane!

Reviving chickens: blasphemy!

Truly, you are damned! :D

Seriously though. What exactly happens when you stroke the chicken? Does it fall asleep?
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Depends on where you stroke it.
 
David Blaine did "the chicken thing" with a pigeon in one of his specials. Supposedly he found a dead pigeon in a park and resurrected it. Big whoop-de-do.
 
You don't need to stroke it at all. You just take any bird and flipit on its back. Little birds are easy, I would imagine a full grown chicken would be harder. The bird calms down very quickly, and soon goes totally limp. I learned as I was trained to handle wild birds. After we would net the birds we would hold them upside down to band them. I would teach a class and hand around a bird to the kids. As long as they kept their hands flat, and I scooped the bird from below, it would stay limp. Try it with your aunts budgie! It works!
 
I don't know if I should be saying this, but this is also how magicians keep their doves quiet until they pull them out and they start flapping.
 
kittynh said:
You don't need to stroke it at all. You just take any bird and flipit on its back. Little birds are easy, I would imagine a full grown chicken would be harder. The bird calms down very quickly, and soon goes totally limp. I learned as I was trained to handle wild birds. After we would net the birds we would hold them upside down to band them. I would teach a class and hand around a bird to the kids. As long as they kept their hands flat, and I scooped the bird from below, it would stay limp. Try it with your aunts budgie! It works!
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Now where did I read that you had to pet (damn you Manfred! :D) the chicken. Another thread maybe? :confused:
 
Well, now I know you'll be easy to spot at JREF2. You'll be the one wearing the button that says, "I can do the chicken thing!!!! Ask me how." :D
 
At TAM 1 Randi did a trick where he was tied up and seemed to escape, yet when the coat covering him was pulled off, he was still tied up. I can do that too! And that is about it besides some really sad card tricks that don't fool kids past the third grade:(
 
I was once awakened by the cries of a chicken we had in a box at home. Instantly, I knew what was going on: one of our dogs had sneaked into the house and grabbed the poor little bird, and was now running away with him. I jumped off the bed and ran after the sound. In seconds, I catched up with the doggie, who had no choice but surrender the chicken to me.

The chicken was flat - I mean it - and was making weak noises. Even if it was gone, I didn't want the dog to have it, so I laid it down as I proceeded to close a heavy door. When I turned to grab it again, it suddenly - and literally - sprang back to life and started running away from me. My reaction was to follow, but after a few seconds I desisted - I felt like a fool, yet I grew convinced that THIS chicken was special. :)
 
Two things.....

A story...

My dad's mum had a pomeranium dog which used to lie on the seats on the verandah where it was not allowed to. My dad would see it through the window, sneak up on it and scare the hell out of it. The poor dog would leap off in fright. One day as he was going out on an urgent call, he spotted it through the window and did his usual thing. This time the dog flew off against a roof support and fell down dead. Ridden with guilt he picked up the dead animal and placed it back on the chair! When he got back form his call, the dog was walking around as if nothing had happened. Apparently it had been merely knocked out.

A question...

Why do birds do that?
(Is there a scientific explanation for this behaviour?)
Dad will probably know but he's out at present so I can't ask him.


Tommy
(I'm posting instead of my dad because he is busy catching up with reports)
 
Zep said:
I thought this thread was about the Chicken Dance!!!
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Well, if we're going to talk about dancing chickens, why don't we talk about the real thing? All you have to do is put a little scotch tape on your chicken's feet, and he'll dance like a freak trying to get it off. It's funny, no doubt.
 
MoeFaux said:
All you have to do is put a little scotch tape on your chicken's feet, and he'll dance like a freak trying to get it off.
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Well, at least it is better than the old "dancing chicken" carnival machine.

A chicken or two was in a glass enclosure. You would put coins into a slot, music would start to play, and the chicken(s) would start to dance. After a minute or so, the music would stop, and the chickens wuold stop dancing.

While it looked as though the chickens had been trained to dance when the music came on, the truth was somewhat ickier. The chickens were standing on an electric hotplate which was turned on along with the music.
 
this sounds like Thai sticky rice. My Thai friends got me the gear for making this specialty as it really amuses small children, and tastes pretty good too. My grandmother's version of this was molasses and a chicken feather.
 
MoeFaux said:
Well, if we're going to talk about dancing chickens, why don't we talk about the real thing? All you have to do is put a little scotch tape on your chicken's feet, and he'll dance like a freak trying to get it off. It's funny, no doubt.
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You know, stuff like this makes me REALLY wonder how people find these things out in the first place... I mean, who normally goes round putting scotch tape on chickens' feet to see what happens? And what are the odds of it happening in nature? Or is there a laboratory somewhere where they do this sort of stuff???
 
Zep said:
You know, stuff like this makes me REALLY wonder how people find these things out in the first place... I mean, who normally goes round putting scotch tape on chickens' feet to see what happens? And what are the odds of it happening in nature? Or is there a laboratory somewhere where they do this sort of stuff???
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I found this out after I got to meet a big carny guy. There's two big carny guys in the States, and he's the big east coast guy. I can't think of his name at the moment, but I can find it out for you.
He had an act when he was a teenager, many years ago, where he danced with a chicken. That was part of his act, a chicken dance. How funny is that?
 
Bobby Reynolds. Bobby Reynolds is the carny guy who did the dancing chicken act.
He's great.
 
So why do chickens go all limp and fall into a trance-like state when placed on their backs?

Anyone?

Tommy
(Dad gave me an answer that sounds good but he doesn't know if it is correct or not)
 
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