Silkie (烏骨雞), meaning 'black-boned chicken'. Melanism which extends beyond the skin into an animal's connective tissue is a rare trait, and in chickens it is caused by fibromelanosis, which is a rare mutation believed to have begun in Asia. The Silkie and several other breeds descended from Asian stock possess the mutation. Disregarding color, the breed does not generally produce as much as the more common meat breeds of chicken. Silkies lay a fair number of eggs, of a cream color, but production is often interrupted due to their extreme tendency to go broody; a hen will produce 100 eggs in
The Silkie band Hapshash And The Coloured Coat. Ramsden received a kidney transplant in 1993, but prematurely died on 17 January 2004 in Totnes, Devon, at the age of 60, after a long battle with kidney disease. A retrospective sixteen-track album entitled You've Got To Hide Your Love Away was reissued on CD 30 years after the original group had disbanded in 1966. A track listing, together with brief audio samples, can be found here. * "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" (click on the individual track song titles). The Silkie The Silkie were an English folk music group. Their name