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YES!
I can't seem to have too many. I only have 3 pelts right now (barred rock, blue laced red wyandotte, and partridge cochin) and would love some more colors. Soon I will be in a mask-making frenzy in prep for the renaissance faire and I will need to restock.
If you had seen my boxes of feathers you would know this isn't quite true. It would take quite a lot of masks (hundreds?) to deplete my feathers, but what can I say? Collecting feathers is cheaper than collecting CHICKENS in every color, so I will have to make due.
If anyone else has some they would like to part with I am open to trades
Sounds good. I will bring the ones I have in the freezer now, as well as any more we dispatch between now and then. I think that as the spring chicks mature more folks will discover they have the occasional oops cockerel and will be posting them on CL.
On another note... What would anyone think about a processing demonstration? I would not think it appropriate to dispatch the birds there, but if we had cooled birds (maybe dispatched that morning?) so that people that have never skinned a bird before could get some idea of what to do? We were talking about it a bit at the spring swap and there seemed to be some interest. I don't pluck, just skin, but would be happy to help others learn how to eviscerate a bird and safely take the skin off for their use at home.
I really don't think that a swap is the place for a demo like that. Besides how crazy and hectic these swaps get, the number of families with small children as well as unsuspecting passersby might not appreciate accidentally seeing something like that. I think it's great that you want to teach people how to do this, but I just don't think this is the right avenue for such a thing.
