Okay farm hands, please tell me if this is really true?
You can mesmerize a chicken by doing the following:
• Draw a line on the ground. (With chalk or something.)
• Bring the chicken's beak to the line.
• Hold it there for a few seconds.
When you let go the chicken will stay motionless, beak held to the chalk line.
I know it's dumb, but I just got to know.
As you ponder this, please enjoy a chicken dance with duck on drums and rabbit on fire engine.
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Of course it's true. What do you think happened to Amy Winehouse? Only her 'line on the ground' was called COKE.
Actually Amy's more hardcore, she stares at a crack pipe. But she may have been forced to grab her ankles and stare at the ground to get her fix pre-hit album.
No sure if it is true, but if you lie them on their back and rub their neck, you can hypnotize them. They will lie their motionless unless you drop the axe and lop off their heads.
I'm a farm boy, but contrary to your quaint citified stereotypes, no, I've never shot wamprats in Beggar's Canyon.
In any case, there are many methods by which to mesmerize a chicken. Tuck its head under its wing, and swing it in a counterclockwise motion for approximately 30 seconds, and you can use the poor thing for a doorstop. It'll be unconscious for 15 minutes, easy. A shiny pocket watch can stun the sucker. So can, unfortunately, a 40 lb bag of concrete accidentally dropped from one's shoulder, although that involves less "stunning" and a bit more "chickenslaughter" than one would hope. Yeah, I speak from experience.
Finally, yes, you can "line daze" a chicken, but the line has to be sort of long, pretty bright white, and holding their head still long enough is a bigger trick than you might think. Chickens are wiry.
Swayze, thanks for the info.
Do you suppose there are chickens farms that one may go to rent a chicken to mesmerize and practice a "line daze". Like the quail farms Dick Cheney goes to. Except with chickens and no guns or fear of being shot in the face.
Any farm with chickens would be proud to share chicken mesmerization secrets with you. But not one of those big corporate farms. The little kind, with a farmer who lives right on the farm.
If you go into a field with cows and shout really loudly and then quickly lie down on the ground, all the cows will come gather around and look at you for as longa s you stay still. Fun times to be had!
Fun times indeed caitlin.
I would imagine it's pretty easy to confuse an animal that doesn't need a head to continue living:
http://www.miketheheadlesschicken.org/story.html
I'm not sure if it's been said yet, but if you walk upon a rabbit with your head and eyes pointed skyward, it won't move, believing itself unseen.
No need to rent a chicken to play with...
Just go to Brooklyn and buy one. There are plenty of butchers that have live ones. Then, once you're done playing with it, you can eat it.
caitlin, what happens when you move? Do they attack or run off?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF01CTJgAyk