A black silkie rooster is seen in this undated photo. Frank Reese, owner of Good Shepard Poultry ranch in Lindsborg, Kansas, has been raising chickens and silkies for 60 years.

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Silkie chickens are a prized breed of chicken with a beautiful and fluffy (yet misleading) set of white feathers and black skin. The chicken flesh itself is a dark bluish-gray or even black, and ...

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Lee allowed the same grayish rooster to breed her, and “still years went by with my hopes always to get another few spotted silkies,” she said. “I got nothing for four years,” Lee said.

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;” ...

“Xi’an,” a blue partridge silkie, is one of 10 chickens Paul Rodenhauser, a professor emeritus from Tulane University, keeps as pets in Corrales, N.M. Dean Hanson/The Albuquerque Journal ...

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