1. The hen's crown is very small, like a mulberry, and the color is very black.

2. The chick hen crown is a small circle.

3. The hen's feathers are slippery and soft.

Male silky fowl

1. The rooster has a big crown and many teeth, like a bunch of blooming exotic flowers and a flame. There are many "fire peaks" on the surface of the flame, which are purplish red.

2. On the chicken, the rooster's crown is rectangular.

The cock's feathers are thick and hard.

Extended data

black-boned chicken

Li Shizhen said in his magnum opus Compendium of Materia Medica: "Black-bone chickens, those with white hair and black bones, all are flesh and blood, all are white bones, but those who watch the black tongue of chickens are all flesh and blood, so it is better to use medicine." It can be seen that the black-bone chickens at that time were not exactly the same, and the only consistent place was that the bones were black.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia Wuji