Silkie Chicken

Silkie (chicken breed)

The Silkie, also known as the Silky or Chinese silk chicken, is a Chinese breed of chickens named for its atypically fluffy plumage, which is soft to the touch, like silk or fur. Its other unusual qualities include black skin and bones, blue earlobes, and pentadactyly – most chickens have only four.

List of guinea pig breeds

Guinea pigs, also known as cavies, have been domesticated since c. 5000 BCE. Selective breeding has produced a wide range of domestic guinea pig breeds, distinguished mainly by coat length, texture, colour, pattern, and body type.

Chicken

The chicken is the domesticated form of the red junglefowl, originally native to Southeast Asia. It was first domesticated around 8,000 years ago and is one of the most common and widespread domesticated animals in the world. Chickens are primarily kept for their meat and eggs, though they are also kept as pets.

silkie

Noun

1. A chicken of a certain breed with very fine, silk-like feathers, blue-black skin and bones, and five toes per foot (instead of the usual four).

Noun

1. Alternative spelling of selkie.

chicken

Noun

1. A domesticated subspecies of red junglefowl (Gallus gallus domesticus).
2. The meat from this bird eaten as food.

Adjective

1. Cowardly.