Distinctive chicken has black skin and furry feathers. A male White Silkie chicken is seen in this undated photo. Mark Clifford/Barcroft Media/Getty Images — -- The silkie “black” chicken's ...

A general rule of thumb many people follow when cooking chicken is to make sure the meat turns from pink to white, but fully-cooked poultry can be white, tan, yellow, or pinkbecause of genetic and ...

You probably know what a raw chicken looks like. We don't want to make any assumptions, but if you close your eyes and picture an uncooked chicken set out in a roasting tray -- or maybe laid on the ...

At Olsen Farm we know all chickens are special, but there is something particularly magical about the silkie breed. We were gifted a few silkie eggs to incubate when we first started raising chickens ...

In the spring 14 years ago, Dickson County resident Judy Lee went out to check on her chickens – though the fluffy birds could have been mistaken for a small dog or cat. Lee didn’t know it yet, but ...

Barbara Blechynden is passionate about white silkie chickens. The life-long love began when she received her first silkie chick as a five-year-old girl 60 years ago. “There is no other bird like them, ...

Silkies owe their unusual black color to fibromelanosis, a rare genetic mutation of hyperpigmentation believed to have first arisen in China. Their Mandarin name, wu gu ji, means “dark-boned chicken;” ...

13:00, Tue, Jun 14, 2016 Updated: 14:07, Thu, Jun 23, 2016 The rare ‘Silkie’ breed, available exclusively from online meat retailer Musclefood.com, is a type of chicken that originated in China. The ...