Silkie Chicken

Since it has been raised for hundreds of years, the Silkie Chicken, also known as the Chinese chicken, has been prized for its fluffy, delightfully soft, and silky plumage. It is a tiny chicken, with hens weighing 3 pounds and roosters weighing around 4 pounds. Even more, little bantam breeds are available.

Silkie chickens can be bearded or non-bearded. A beard is made up of feathers just under the beak that covers the chicken’s earlobes. The chicken is also allowed to come in several colors, including white, blue, black, gray, and partridge. A champion silkie needs to have a tiny comb shaped like a walnut, blue earlobes, and dark wattles. Each foot needs to have five toes, and beneath all those fluffy feathers the skin must be black. Despite having exotic appearances, silkies are peaceful and brooding birds that are frequently utilized to incubate the eggs of other birds.