Yes. No joke. You can hypnotize a chicken.

If you are thinking of swinging a stopwatch in front of a chicken while repeatedly saying “you don’t have to cross the road” - you are totally off the mark.

This trick results in the victim, I mean the chicken immobilized from 30 seconds up to 3 hours (depends on how strong its brain is). You can try this on any chicken (no… KFC won’t do). But in view of the bird flu that is all over Asia, I won’t recommend you to do this at all.

Anyway, I’ll explain this in short, first you take a chicken (duh), then hold the chicken to the ground with its head in front. Then use your finger or stick and draw some straight lines from its beak to the outside. Then gently let your hands go. You will find the chicken will stay in its position.

Now you can give instructions to lay some golden eggs for you. NOT!!.

Anyway, you can view the video at the bottom to see a guy doing it in Africa.

The longest hypnotized chicken recorded was 3 hours 47 minutes (source Wiki). There are other methods of hypnotizing chickens, you can check them out from the links below.

Wiki : Chicken hypnotism
How to Hypnotise a Chicken
3 ways to hypnotize a chicken