Silkie chickens are a prized breed of chicken with a beautiful and fluffy (yet misleading) set of white feathers and black ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a tiny Frizzle rooster was rescued from the side of a highway, his life started looking up. Abandoned with no place to call home, the little rooster was overjoyed to have a home. But when he went ...

Burger King Japan's "Goth Burger" needed a lot of special tricks and ingredients to get it's unique (and slightly creepy) all-black look, but the all-natural black meat option might be even scarier ...

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 ...

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;” ...

I've learned to eat a lot of weird-looking things. I've eaten baby octopi. I've eaten escargot. I've even eaten the weird kitchen-sink casserole that my aunt makes that literally makes us all sick ...