"Like hypnotizing chickens" is
Iggy Pop's description of
love in his song '
Lust for Life'.
There are two generally accepted methods of hypnotizing
chickens. The first is to take a
stick with false plastic
eyeballs attached to it with a distance of about an
inch apart. In theory, the chicken, on seeing the eyeballs, should remain transfixed by them until contact is broken.
The other, apparently more successful, method is to take a chicken and hold it
upside-down by its legs for 40 seconds. The chicken remains in a state of
paralysis for 30 minutes to an
hour.
Neither the
ethical ramifications nor the
success rates of these methods have ever been satsifactorily reported.