How flammable are chickens?

[Jehosaphet]

I've got a rooster that likes to come into my shop and hang out with me and my propane heater...and sure enough, he always ends up right next to it every time. I move it back, he snuggles up again.
Google says that feathers are extremely flammable, but is also mentioning the drier, the better...its in the context of outdoor survival stuff. What about feathers that are still on the bird?
There's a grate on the heater...it doesn't get TOO hot, but it still gets hot enough to have me wondering just how easily my rooster here could suddenly burst into a screeching ball of fire.
Anyone have any experience with burning chickens?

 

[Folly's place]

Don't chance it! Do you want your birds to become living torches? Feathers are very flammable!
How about a fence of some sort to keep the heater away from the birds!
Mary

 

[mommiesrcool]

Don't chance it! Do you want your birds to become living torches? Feathers are very flammable!
How about a fence of some sort to keep the heater away from the birds!
Mary

i agree if you want a cheap fence get some t posts and chicken wire from Home Depot , and yes chicken feathers are VERY flammable

 

[Fishychix]

Do you have any wire grates, kind of like a dog play pen, that you could use to surround the heater? Like a fence.

 

[B-Goock]

Do a test burn.... lol

Just find a spent feather in the run or coop and see how close it has to get before ignition.
May have to put some hardware cloth over it so his feathers don't poke in

 

[Jehosaphet]

Can't believe I didn't think of that...to just try a newly fallen feather. But yeah I'll take steps here, just trying to gauge how cautious I need to be. So far there's been no problem, but I DID smell a singe smell wafting up today...didn't see anything on Roo, but yeah definitely made me nervous. Thanks for the feedback =]

 

[alwaystj9]

Enjoying this thread...every time I think I have seen all the chicken issues, there arrives a new problem I have never even considered!

 

[Gonzalezfam]

Feathers are made of keratin same as hair so just think how flammable is hair?
Yikes I know I’ve had no eyebrows in a flash a couple of times!!!!

 

[SerrarGett]

How flammable are chickens? Well, I didn't think I would hear that today.

 

[Jehosaphet]

Update! So the fire fascinated fowl flapped out a few feathers right in front of me today, I bundled them together and sure enough, just like hair, they burned just as quickly as they extinguished. Like, they start fire pretty easily, but also go out pretty quick too....I had to relight the feathers a number of times to get all of it burned.

So...I don't think Roo here would go up in a ball of flames if he ever caught fire, but he'd definitely have a good flash-singe where it happened. At least from what I can tell.
Yeah pardon the pretty random question here, but I figured that this of all places...would be the place to hear from that one person who'd tell you about the one time their bird caught fire, and oh my God you have no idea how quickly it happened etc.
Thanks guys, I'll keep an eye out =]