black white body chicken

 

Silkie chickens are a highly-prized breed of chicken that has beautiful silky white plumage, and startlingly black skin. They are frequently found in China, India, and Southeast Asia. They have a mild-mannered nature and make excellent pets, and you'll often see them at poultry shows.
The chicken flesh itself is a dark bluish-grey or even black, and the bones are black as well. But the meat really doesn't taste different by nature; it's just chicken. The one difference, however, comes from the way the birds are raised. These obviously aren't factory-farmed birds, raised on the enormous scale of US poultry farms, so they're almost invariably free-range and slightly gamier in flavor. In fact, if you're looking for free-range and well-raised birds, choosing a black chicken is a good way to go.
Do you ever eat black chicken? How do you cook it? It seems that a roasted black bird would be slightly startling to guests; perhaps you're better off with soup? Here's a recent article from the New York Times on black chicken and soup:

Black chicken

We have black chickens, they are black cochins and have feathers from head to toe with their feathered feet. But I am pretty certain that they are regular white meat chicken. Unlike these chicken, which would startle most of us if we saw them in the grocery store.

For more on what makes black chicken black right down to the bone,  read the article at The Kitchn