“Everybody wants a Silkie chicken,” she said, partly because of their popularity and cuteness. Silkies are known for their fluffy white or yellow feathers and funny-looking faces. But the ...

Some of the most popular fluffy chicken breeds include: Silkies. Silkie chickens are smaller than standard chickens. Many small breeds of chickens (called bantams) have normal-sized counterparts.

These yellow-golden chickens are primarily ornamental birds ... turkeys, and ducks. Buff Silkies are adorable little fluffy ...

They’re not your usual yard birds. Brianne raises a type of chicken called a silkie. They’re small and seem plump because of their coating of downy, furlike feathers. Their little heads are ...

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;” ...

Another breed, known as the silkie because of its soft, hair-like feathers, also sports hyperpigmented skin and tissues, as do the black H’Mong chickens of Vietnam and the svarthöna of Sweden.

There are so many beautiful layers to these fuzzballs. Imagine Acres also explains that Silkie chickens have black bones and skin, a stark departure than a typical pale-skinned chicken ...