Posted by floatingbridge on June 30, 2011, at 11:49:52
July's issue has an article called 'Food Ark'. They have a two page spread on uncommon chickens. There are tons more than they show. These breeds are not uncommon to hobbyists, but they are not on our plates unless you raise them. The chicken we buy in the market is a very strange hybrid :-/
Anyways, we have a few of these pretty
breeds at home: Silver Gray Dorking,
Speckled Sussex, Silkie.The Dorking was brought to England by the Romans it is believed. Silkies are most likely the odd chicken Marco Polo wrote about seeing in China.
Silkies have black skin, black bones, grey flesh. They are a delicacy in China
(though I have never been there to confirm this.) Their eggs are really good :-) !We just eat the eggs here. Our chickens
will have ridiculously long lives :O) We have sent a few roosters 'onward' to our friend's more serious farm project, and were told they were very 'good'.The article also has great pictures of potato varieties.
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