BREEDING FOR PRODUCTION...EGGS AND OR MEAT.

[Beer can]

Chinese usually make soup out of them. I plan on using a Chinese silkie soup recipe, has a few other ingredients, shiitake mushrooms, wolfberries(goji berries) ginseng, figs. Think I'll skip the ginseng, only harvest them in the fall and I'm NOT buying any. Think I'll leave the fig out also.

 

[dfr1973]

Not in my opinion. And the meat is rather stringy, not dense and finely textured like a good meat chicken should be.

That one pictured was not stringy, so that could be a strain difference. To my taste buds, it has a slightly richer flavor, not as rich as guinea, but certainly a step above white meat from a Wyandotte, although about the same as Wyandotte dark meat.

Yes, the Chinese usually make a soup of Silkie, and only women eat it, as in traditional medicine it is for "woman problems" or to aid post-partum recovery.

 

[varidgerunner]

Black chickens are like black jelly beans, you either love them or you hate them.

 

[Beer can]

Yes, the Chinese usually make a soup of Silkie, and only women eat it, as in traditional medicine it is for "woman problems" or to aid post-partum recovery.

Only 'women problems' I have are the wife and four daughters...maybe I shouldn't eat it, I don't want to grow boobs....Lol!

 

[holm25]

   Only 'women problems' I have are the wife and four daughters...maybe I shouldn't eat it, I don't want to grow boobs....Lol!

Same! Lol

 

[CanadianBuckeye]

There are plenty of animal parts to help out with "Guy" problems

 

[RattlesnakeRidgeWV]

SAME, SAME

no silkies for me thanks.

 

[hellbender]

I've eaten black meat chickens in Vietnam, same place I ate monkey and dog. I would eat the chicken again under the same circumstances (as guest to indigenous person) but I wouldn't order it from a menu...especially if the cost was much higher than regular chicken. I don't remember it being especially bad....or good but I do remember it being hotter than hell!!!

 

[DesertChic]

Only 'women problems' I have are the wife and four daughters...maybe I shouldn't eat it, I don't want to grow boobs....Lol!

Same! Lol

I admit that I haven't eaten any of my Silkie or Silkie crosses yet. They're all in the freezer. The color of the meat and skin don't scare me. My main problem is with the size of the birds. I'll have to cook up one for each of us or devote my time to carving them up to turn them into soup. It's just been so much easier to throw one large bird into the oven to feed the whole family rather than picking at those little birds. Sometimes I just get lazy.

 

[DesertChic]

I've eaten black meat chickens in Vietnam, same place I ate monkey and dog. I would eat the chicken again under the same circumstances (as guest to indigenous person) but I wouldn't order it from a menu...especially if the cost was much higher than regular chicken. I don't remember it being especially bad....or good but I do remember it being hotter than hell!!!

If I hadn't raised and butchered the birds myself I certainly wouldn't bother with them, and unless I experience some monumental health benefits when I finally cook mine up, I really don't see myself buying more Silkies in the future. I love my little Didi and the 'Bielskies" are very cute and sweet, but they're more a novelty than an ambition.

Dog is the one meat I'm not sure I could ever bring myself to consciously consume. I suppose if I didn't know what I was eating that would be one thing, but I hold most dogs in higher respect than most humans I've met. It would seem almost like cannibalism to me.