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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: Jethro Tull on December 08, 2016, 06:47:17 am

Title: Silkie Cockerels
Post by: Jethro Tull on December 08, 2016, 06:47:17 am

Can anybody suggest a use for surplus silkie cockerels? They have black skin under their white feathers and little or no meat. Does anyone consider them a delicacy?

Title: Re: Silkie Cockerels
Post by: macgro7 on December 08, 2016, 07:33:47 am

Sell then to a local Chinese restaurant.
Chinese consider them a delicacy and make  "black chicken soup" out of them
Their meat is as black as their skin! It's so weird eating them! I had one in the past

Title: Re: Silkie Cockerels
Post by: milly molly on December 14, 2016, 04:47:58 pm

the pure an x ones make very good stock for soup pies etc

Title: Re: Silkie Cockerels
Post by: Jethro Tull on December 15, 2016, 11:38:31 pm

Thanks both. I haven't eaten meat or fowl or fish for almost 50'years so I won't take the 'stock option'.

But I may well talk to my local Chinese restaurant

Title: Re: Silkie Cockerels
Post by: nutterly_uts on December 25, 2016, 08:21:16 pm

They have more meat on them then you'd expect and quite a gamey flavour