Please don't think I'm a nutso!

[Lazy Gardener]

Any one living in the neighborhood where I grew up saw UFO's frequently: My brother and his friends spent HOURS manufacturing UFO's to "alarm the masses" Radio control planes, hot air balloons, recordings of odd sounds that they would play at night. Then, there was the time they spent laying a wallet in the middle of the road, attached to a fishing line. They'd hide in the ditch, and reel it in when someone stopped to pick it up.

 

[CrealCritter]

Big head- check
Large eyes- check
Weird looking- check
Strange habits- check

I've had some close encounters

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What kind of chickens are those? Grade A Extra Fancy?

 

[Hinotori]

Silkies. Actually one of the oldest breeds we have today. I've been telling people they are aliens for the last few years. They just don't act like the other breeds. They can have vaulted skulls and the brain is exposed sometimes.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Wow! We had a silkie, a friend wanted us to hatch some eggs for him and then ended up dumping the chicks on us. One was a silkie roo. He was insane, and kept starting fights with my MUCH bigger Dominique roo. That poor guy got throttled daily until we butchered him. I couldn't eat the black meat either, freaked me out. They are weird birds.

 

[CrealCritter]

Silkies. Actually one of the oldest breeds we have today. I've been telling people they are aliens for the last few years. They just don't act like the other breeds. They can have vaulted skulls and the brain is exposed sometimes.

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Exposed brain? And the live like that?

 

[CrealCritter]

Wow! We had a silkie, a friend wanted us to hatch some eggs for him and then ended up dumping the chicks on us. One was a silkie roo. He was insane, and kept starting fights with my MUCH bigger Dominique roo. That poor guy got throttled daily until we butchered him. I couldn't eat the black meat either, freaked me out. They are weird birds.

So they have black skin?

 

[CrealCritter]

Several years ago I was about to purchase a devil chicken split/fork comb. I don't even recall the breed now but my wife talked me out of it. I found the picture on my cell phone though. I wanted it for nothing less than a novelty.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Skin, meat, think bones even but don't remember. @Hinotori is the silkie pro!

 

[Hinotori]

Yes. Black skin, meat, bones.

Swedish Black Hens and Ayam Cemani are both even darker black.

Yes the brain can be unprotected. This is one of the reason that silkies shouldn't be kept with other breeds. Easily injured if pecked in the head. I had an ameraucana hen blind a silkie rooster with a good head peck.


There are a few breeds with a V comb. Polish are fairly easy to get ahold of. They can't see very well so are one of the few breeds that do well with silkies. Of course the reason silkies started having such huge crests was from crossing polish in back in the middle of the 20th century.

 

[JanetMarie]

@JanetMarie
No ETs around here yet. Just this strange lil fellow that came with the house. I think he french but can't be for sure, he's a heck of a gardener though so I'm cool with him being around. I keep tell him to put some clothes on before he freezes his wieners off.
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He also has a strange way of getting around.
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Weird little guy. Yeah, he needs clothes to stay on Earth unless he joins a nudist colony.