When a tiny Frizzle rooster was rescued from the side of a highway, his life started looking up. Abandoned with no place to call home, the little rooster was overjoyed to have a home. But when he went ...

Distinctive chicken has black skin and furry feathers. A male White Silkie chicken is seen in this undated photo. Mark Clifford/Barcroft Media/Getty Images — -- The silkie “black” chicken's ...

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;” ...