Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

do you guys do anything with your chicken feathers @idiotswife ? I think @Beer can and @alaskan make fly fishing thingies

 

[hennible]

u want eggs or the chicken itself?
There's a bunch of hatcheries around with those......here...

Hatching eggs or hens which ever... Can't find anything but bantams on Canadian chicken book

How many chickens does it take to make a pillow ?  (queen size)

Hmm

I'm dead serious.
I wanna know how many chickens it takes to make a feather pillow.
anyone ?

It apparently takes six ducks to make a queen size blanket, 15 roosters filled a garbage bag three quarters full... So idk... You want just down, no pin or flight feathers.... Lets say about 15 give or take

 

[hennible]

uhhhh???? depends on how far down you wanna be.

Lol

 

[1kluckychik]

do you guys do anything with your chicken feathers @idiotswife ? I think @Beer can and @alaskan make fly fishing thingies

We haven't processed any of our own birds yet, and the ones that came off from their molt have composted themselves.

 

[Amberjem]

Hatching eggs or hens which ever... Can't find anything but bantams on Canadian chicken book
Hmm
It apparently takes six ducks to make a queen size blanket, 15 roosters filled a garbage bag three quarters full... So idk... You want just down, no pin or flight feathers.... Lets say about 15 give or take

only 6 ducks for a queen size down comforter??????? wow really? I'd think more do ducks have more feathers then chickens?

 

[Sharps Big 50]

Hatching eggs or hens which ever... Can't find anything but bantams on Canadian chicken book
Hmm
It apparently takes six ducks to make a queen size blanket, 15 roosters filled a garbage bag three quarters full... So idk... You want just down, no pin or flight feathers.... Lets say about 15 give or take

15? sure that's enough ?

 

[Sharps Big 50]

only 6 ducks for a queen size down comforter??????? wow really? I'd think more do ducks have more feathers then chickens?

Maybe that's with the down still attached to the duck(s)

 

[hennible]

Maybe that's with the down still attached to the duck(s)

That's what they say

only 6 ducks for a queen size down comforter??????? wow really? I'd think more do ducks have more feathers then chickens?

More than twice as many

 

[perchie.girl]

You are correct, @perchie.girl ! Araucanas are so much more difficult though. The tufted gene causes so many issues. The only way to breed them with success is to breed tufted to non-tufted. So one parent wouldn't be accepted, but the other would. And then you get tufted and non-tufted offspring. Another example of type being accepted.

I researched them pretty hard when i first heard of them. Auracanas are also very poor at making eggs that hatch..... So I would much prefer Amauracanas or even EEs. But I am leaning toward Creme Legbars if I decide on a blue egg layer.

I would like to infuse Sumatras with that blue egg laying gene.... that would be awesome....

deb

 

[Sharps Big 50]

That's what they say
More than twice as many

I really don't want my pillow to move on it's own