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A chicken without a head can only live for several seconds. Then it will die. But the body of the chicken can run around and flap its wings strenuously, if you consider that really any kind of life.

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chickens cannot live without a head but i have seen a chicken in a book with its head cut off. yet it lived cause its brain stem was still there. the farmer fed him with an eye dropper.

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