silkien.
/ˈsɪlki/ A small chicken of a variety distinguished by long, soft plumage.
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1885 Daily News 14 July 2/3 The little Japanese silkies are valuable for sitting on pheasants' or partridges' eggs on account of their light weight.
1937 W. W. Broomhead Poultry Breeding & Managem. ix. 325/1 Silkies are quaint little fowls.
1937 W. W. Broomhead Poultry Breeding & Managem. ix. 326/1 (caption) A White Silkie Cock.
1978 Country Life 11 May 1285/1 I have a clutch of pure-bred Silkies being incubated now... I am not sure where the Silkie stands in bantam genealogy.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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