I get a lot of people linking to things on The Art of Doing Stuff Facebook page. Stuff they want me to see.
Most often it's either about potato chips, chickens, or pizza.
On rare occasions it's about something that doesn't have to do with food. I don't like those rare occasions. They make me itch.
Pizza can make you itch too but only if you eat it while sitting in a patch of poison ivy. Which would be worth it for even the worst piece of pizza.
So when Julie put up a chicken link on my Facebook page the other day I thought … Huh … a chicken link! Actually I said …. Huh! A chicken link! outloud and sprayed potato chips all over my computer.
What I opened up when I clicked on that link was a whole new world.
Allow me to introduce to you via Julie, via Geekologie ...
This photo is not Photoshopped. This is what the actual chicken looks like. Every single bit of it is black.
Everything.
This chicken's skin, bones and organs … are black.
You might think it's ugly. Horrifying even. A freak of nature. I love it.
The Ayam Cemani is a breed of chicken from Indonesia. And I want one.
Which is a shame because you can only buy them in pairs. And they're $5,000 per pair. Unless you do some REAL digging on the Internet in which case you can pick up a pair from Green Fire Farms for the low, low price of $1,999.
On the other hand a black Sharpie only costs a couple of bucks.
So. What do you think? The Ayam Cemani.
Breathtakingly Beautiful or Shockingly Scary?
leslie
As many chickens as I have lost (to egg binding, predators-even my own dogs once, disease, escape, etc.) I would just never pay that kind of money for a chicken. Even on principle (my family is Scottish)!
They are quite beautiful and intimidating!!
Jodi T.
GORGEOUS!!! I am not a bit surprised that you love this.
Sandi
A first for me. Thanks, Julie and Karen. A beautimous creation!!
Tricia
Oh what purty feathers, kinda looks with an oil slick but purty nonetheless. I can't get imagine putting a black skinned chicken on my table though...creepy!
wendy
I think they are beautiful . . . and scary. Beautiful-scary. Kind of like ugly-sexy, right?
LazySusan
He's gorgeous! That said, in order to have a pair, you'd first have to sell your house and move out into the country where you could have a rooster. We know what happened the last time you had a rooster! By the way, what ever happened with the chicken ordinance that you testified for?
Brandi
Think of what you could do with black eggs for Halloween!!!!
Melissa in North Carolina
I saw them used in a cooking show...what I learned is they don't taste like a normal chicken. You have to marinate the meat before cooking. No thanks.
Marion
It is breathtakingly beautiful! Those feathers are amazing, I imagine they strut about all day without a care in the world. I know I would if I looked that good. The price of them, however, is scary. If it were to pay that much for an animal there's no way I would eat them!
Mary Werner
Gorgeous! Get a pair, I know you will! But of course you will need another coup so that the rooster doesn't have his way with the other girls. Then you will need a bigger run and lots of other equipment so that the babies can be kept "pure" and you don't get chicks mixed from your other hens. Kind of like your kitchen remodel. You've been there before. It would make a great extra income until the market is satisfied with the number of black chickens and then what would you do with all the winter heating devices, extra bedding, etc. Just saying. I would certainly love to know about the taste and fat content of meat.
Rondina
I can't see eating black chicken meat.
I wonder how other chickens feel about them. Are they put off? Do they think they're freaks of nature? Are they shunned and bullied or embraced for their black beauty?
Gretchen Sexton
Stunning! And way cool.
ralph
What do I think?...
My first thought was one of April 1st, but then,if we can have white rhinos why not black chickens?
Be well.
Sherri
Gorgeous...looks like a bronze statue of a chicken. You'd pay a few thousand for a bronze statue so I think you should spring for the real McCoy!
polly
The guy in the pic looks mighty like a rooster to me. So. If you could get a pair that's one male and one female, you could start a black chicken business, and amortize the cost pretty darn quick. (I could be wrong about his gender; not a fowl expert... But, just sayin'.)
Karen
Oh no, that's definitely a rooster! ~ karen
Elen Grey
Heh. Bespoke chicken. Gorgeous.
mia pratt
They're absolutely breathtakingly beautiful - black is beautiful! Wow, breeding those would earn a ridiculous income...yikes! So much easier than growing pot, or smuggling ancient artifacts?
Samantha
Wholly mackerel that's cool! How much are they to eat tho??? Geeze!
Julia
So beautiful!!!
gogothrift@etsy.com
Very interesting that the skin, bones and organs are black also but the egg is not....