In China it is the commonsense recipe for avoiding the dreaded greys: consume a bird with black flesh and black bones and your hair will retain its black shine. Loading... The problem for Asians ...

Phoebe, my new white silkie bantam, was spending all her time perching on the edge of the nursery box, so I took that as a sign that she was ready to fly the nursery box and move into the tractor ...

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;” ...