Do you sell feathers? Question....

[Egg Rookie 2010]

I have a roo who has attacked one too many times. He has exquisite hackle feathers I think we could sell/use for fly tying. HOW do you cull a bird without ruining these feathers? And do you have any tips for catching a roo without injury?

 

[madamwlf]

I know the place where I get my hair down buys turkey feathers and sells them as hair accessories. People buy them too. We're talking 3 feathers for $24. Crazy.

 

[Connorrm]

I actually ran into an issue last year. I tie my own flies, and the tackle shop was OUT OF FEATHERS. This really hadn't ever happened before. He said he'd been slammed every day with different salons buying everything they could.

 

[nurse_turtle]

Apparently the hot new thing for hair is.....rooster/pheasant feathers. My daughter has asked and I told her to stalk our Barred Rock until he drops the ones she want and then we'll talk.

 

[Noymira]

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I saw a news story on this, and it's a real problem for the fly fisherman who tie their own. Not a hair fad I've seen around here, but I guess in more urban areas. You probably could make a good amount off the feathers.

I'd use a towel or something else to help catch him, then once he's dispatched just skip the scald and carefully pluck, maybe with some tweezers?

 

[dainerra]

the ones I've seen, they SKIN the chicken and then carefully pluck the feathers.

The saddle feathers are the most wanted ones. I read about one going for $300. check ebay for prices...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Whiting-Gri...S_CSA_MWA_Wigs_Extensions&hash=item3a69536914
I'd like to get this lucky!!

 

[dainerra]

wow.. do a search for 'rooster feathers' and sort "highest first" there are some that are going for almost $2000!! it's for a set of 6 saddles...

makes me want to go cull some roosters

http://www.ebay.com/itm/6-Full-Roos...109?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4aad861395

 

[Egg Rookie 2010]

Well this sounds promising however HOW do you kill the bird? The only way we know to do it it use an axe on the neck and that kinda ruins this whole feather selling idea....How can you do this without wrecking the body? Not wanting to be gruesome or anything but I need a little help.

 

[bustermommy]

I would think that the most promising way to preserve the feathers would be killing cone and throat cutting. If you take the bird off the roost before they get out of the coop, you can catch them easily.

 

[silkieluver_07]

All the "country" girls around here are wearing those feathers in their hair. I'm not into fads like that. At the hair salons it cost $25 to get a feather in your hair. Really? Their dyed guinea and chicken feathers