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[Mac in Wisco]

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Yes, Americans are accustomed to a clean yellow skin. They wouldn't know what to make of a dark skinned bird or a light skinned bird with black dots all over it from dark feathers.

 

[GoodEgg]

I'm embarrassed to admit that before I started looking at hatchery catalogs last fall I didn't even know there WERE different colors of chicken skin.

Now I'm really very curious to see what a dark-skinned (or other) bird would like like on the table. I don't plan to butcher anything I've got right now for at least a few years though (hehe, especially since my little roos are behaving extremely well at the moment!).

trish

 

[greyfields]

All table birds in England are white skinned. It was creepy for my wife to see yellow chicken skin when she moved here. It all comes down to what we are used to seeing; and anything different we view as 'unclean' and we don't buy as willingly.

As for yellow versus white, as far as I've been able to tell, there is no difference between the two at all... except for customer preference.

 

[silkiechicken]

I eat black skinned chicken too and it tastes the same to me. Those silkies cost like 8 bucks for a whole 8 ounce bird!!! Talk about specality market.

 

[boilerjoe_96]

Lost 2 out of 15.

1 at 2 days, and 1 at 5-6 weeks. Darn thing didn't let me butcher him.....