The Many Uses for Chicken/Poultry Feathers
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- Feathers from chickens and other poultry have a number of uses, both historical and modern. Steve & Brian discuss these uses, and explain how the small hobby farmer or homesteader can use feathers.
Link to "Chicken Feathers: Everything You Never Knew You Wanted To Know!" -
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Super cool and informative video. Thank you so much.
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Thank you gentlemen!!! Your video is awesome! You have done a tremendous amount of research! I was hoping to hear how I could just wash them and stuff them in a pillow. Oh well! Not going to raise geese just for their down, so retail it is. SO much feather info! FANTASTIC JOB GUYS!!! ALL THREE OF Y'ALL ROCK!!
You can just wash them & stuff them...but there are better options. Thanks for the continued support!
Very interesting. Thanks
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching!
When it comes to chicken feathers, especially tail feathers, I would soak them in hot water to clean them and use them for millinery as decorations on hats.
A historical use of feathers were for corsets. Whalebone or baleen was getting expensive and some people sought a more inexpensive alternative so goose feathers, chicken feathers, and turkey feathers would have been stripped and bound to create what was called "feather bone" and it was flexible when molded with heat as it was made of keratin just like baleen and our fingernails. The term feather bone is still used today but on synthetic versions since it contains the same properties and characteristics that of original feather bone.
Thanks for sharing. That was awesome!
Thank you for sharing this information with us
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Thanks i really needed that for my presentation for scool!
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Thank you for your sharing
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🙏🏻 excellent timing, excellent 😈
Thank you!
My Grandmother in the 1930's made a full sized comforter from chicken feathers. She cleaned and sanitized them somehow. The resulting comforter was very warm but it was super heavy, So it wasn't that great to use.
No reason you can't use them for pillows, coats and comforters...but there are better options.
Yeah that’s what I do is just compost my feathers. I do use some for crafts
We do too!
Thank you! I want to use all of the chicken ❤
Hope you enjoy!
So you say manor will help break them down faster in a compost? I wonder if dog poop would work trying to find another good way to use instead of just hosing it into the yard to fertilize the grass
Tossing it on the compost pile is the best thing you can do with dog poop. It will work well.
@@HobbyFarmGuys that really surprised me to read. I have always heard it is bad as a fertilizer. I have 9 big dogs so this info gives me hope for ALL those huge piles of........
Dog poop directly on plants is not so good, but mixed into the compost pile it is fine.
They make great compost might have to break them up a little bit run him through a shredder
It helps!
can u use a feather to be an cold resistant jacket?
Cleaned feathers have been used as filling for coats and quilts in the past. They may not be the best option, but if you are trying to be a resourceful as possible it can be done.
My girls are lucky I don’t fly fish anymore… 😉
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Oh heck! What's a feather or two amongst family!😉
@@bbthomas4807 one of them has some beautiful grizzly hackles. I’ve thought about sneaking out at night and plucking one or two 😉