Cock Feather Thieves at Fairs - Gain from our experience

[gumbii]

yeah, the one in the video isn't a chicken feather... looks like a pheasant feather or something... kind of sucks... a short hackle feather would be okay, but i bet companies are just plucking pheasant feathers out to die them and sell them for $texas a mount of money...


i hate fashion...

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I'd be so angry if someone mutilated a bird of mine at the fair.
Here are some feathers for sale:
Rooster Saddle Feathers for Sale

Lisa

 

[Debbi]

Just for giggles today, I did a search on Ebay for: "hair extension feathers".

Sure is NO shortage of people selling feathers there!

 

[bantiebabe1200]

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I work in a flyshop year round, and the feathers that flyfisherman use (saddles and capes that is) are from a special genetically engineered strain of birds that are not found any where but in the fly shops for sale. These are special grade feathers that work for tying flies. This is what makes them so thin. The breeders of these birds, only breed for feather quality for fly tying. The average barnyard chicken or even the birds bred to standard, don't produce this quality of feather, wich makes 98% of the flyfisherman (desperate as they are) unable to use the feathers plucked from showbirds or barnyard birds. The best breeders of the fly tying or super thin feathers refuse to sell thier feathers to the salons and are starting to numer the ones being sold to the flyshops due to the reputaion of the birds, breeders, genes and thier original purpose. Although this does not mean the gals at the salons arn't buying out all the fly shops and/or people they can find with these feathers for top price.

Just as my own opinion, I believe the person stealing feathers would have been from a salon or someone try to make a quick buck by selling the feathers to a salon.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I think whether fur coats are in/out of fashion depends on where you live, and your age. In the winter when I am visiting my folks and go to church with them, virtually ALL the women of that generation are wearing fur coats, and it is very definitely not faux.

 

[mycutekitties]

Last month at the fair we had master locks on our cages. We were the only one with locks but I didn't want to risk my birds getting taken. Heck he had to drive from mid California to Washington to get them!

 

[Quinn4321]

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I think whether fur coats are in/out of fashion depends on where you live, and your age. In the winter when I am visiting my folks and go to church with them, virtually ALL the women of that generation are wearing fur coats, and it is very definitely not faux.

Real fur? * shudders *

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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I think whether fur coats are in/out of fashion depends on where you live, and your age. In the winter when I am visiting my folks and go to church with them, virtually ALL the women of that generation are wearing fur coats, and it is very definitely not faux.

Real fur? * shudders *

Real fur really does not bother me. I have a couple of fur coats in the back of my closet from eons ago. Never wear them--never need to, and the one that was one of my mom's I dislike the style, the other one is very much an out of style design (huge shoulders).

 

[knjinnm]

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Fly fishing people don't use tail feathers, the use much finer hackle feathers.

 

[jyphotog]

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We have street fares where people can sell their wares at the end of every month in Portlandia. I might just have to go have a talk with some of those many boys if they want to keep being fed!

You would make a killing at saturday market, in Portland.