who collects thier chickens feathers? what to do with them?

[The Chicken Lady]

I have one feather saved... It's a sickle feather from my favorite big white rooster I got as a birthday gift in fifth grade (my very first chicken ever). He passed away when I was in college. I was thinking of him the other day and took it out and held it.

I miss him...

 

[77horses]

When my hen Apricot was alive last year(she, her sister, and their rooster died because of a weasel attack...) i collected some of their feathers and put them in a baggy when they were just youngsters. Now it's in between some pages in my Bible that my dad gave me.

It's sad to pick up those feathers of my little hen who passed away...it's the only thing I have left (physically) of her and her rooster and sister.

 

[77horses]

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aww i know how you feel....

 

[shay20]

We collect all the feathers, im gonna make a huge dream catcher with them.

 

[MoodyChicken]

I use em in my art. I've recently started using them in my sculptures. Here's one I did last year, a perhistoric bird. Most of the feathers came from a partridge Wyandotte hen, who died shortly after this was finished. Kinda cool to think that she'll live on in this piece.

 

[congdon476]

My DD 5 1/2 ys brings them in the house all the time and leaves them all over the place. I just keep tossing them out.

 

[77horses]

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Holy cow that thing scared me!!!

LOL I thought it was a head from a dead chicken that you kept at first!

Nice sculture by the way! as long as it's not a real chicken head!

 

[digginchicks]

Oooo thats a really pretty sculpture

 

[77horses]

Yes I agree but i really did think that it was a preserved chicken head or something! LOL i think it's my bed time.

but i like the feather idea.

 

[Leah-yes I know I'm crazy]

I saw a post here last fall where someone tucked feathers into a screen (door I think) and it looked really cool.