If you live in an area where livestock is grown, you usually see chickens that are either white or various shades of brown, with an occasional oddball black chicken. There are quite a few breeds ...

The breed was imported into Europe in 1998 and is related to the Swedish Black Chicken. For more photos of the impressive breeding stock of Ayam Cemani chickens at Greenfire Farms, visit their ...

It was exported to Europe in the 18th century by sailors from the Dutch East India Company, and interbred to become the Swedish Black chicken. The Indonesian bird is thought to bring good luck.

"It is one Goth chicken," she writes ... (a phenomenon called fibromelanosis), including Swedish Bohuslän-Dals svarthöna, Vietnamese Black H’Mong, and the Silkie, originally from China ...

This finding is consistent with anecdotal evidence suggesting that this Swedish breed of chicken inherited their black skin and internal connective tissue color from Asian chickens that were first ...