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I need more help with feathers, please
sailordad:
i keep most my turkey feathers in the freezer in a plastic bag
however i do have some in the house just sitting on display kinda.feathers that i find while i am
walking state land end up in this little clay pot i bought at pipestone one year.
we have moths in the house and never had a feather eaten up yet.heck i have t-shirts that just devlope holes when hey are hung in the closet.
but my feathers never got chewed on yet.
JackCrafty:
Under the right conditions, mites will eat up your feathers. Fortunately, most feathers don't have mites. Looks like you got a contaminated batch.
I store mine the same way many people store wool blankets (and such)....inside a plastic bag with a couple moth "packets" thrown in. Don't used the old mothballs: they leave a gooey residue.
The freezer idea is a good one but I would need about three entire freezers to store all the feathers I have. ;D
Dave Dellinger:
I have some old commercial POC arrows from the 70's in my garage, and most of the feathers are gone now. They were fine until about 5 years ago, so I was sure it was moths. They ate two horsehair buggy tassles from my great,great grandpa too. There was dust in the missing areas, so I know it wasn't rodents.
I envy you guys with feathers!
sailordad:
jackcrafty,
i have a 3 cubic ft freezer that is all but empty,why dont you send me a bunch of them feathers and i will
keep them on ice for ya so the moths dont eat them up >:D
i got about a dozen old wooden arrows(probably from the 70's)with feather fletching on them from a buddy of mine.they had belonged to his father in law,whom used to shoot trad
years ago. all the feathers are in tact,or atleast they were until i started shooting them, thru the fence >:D
JackCrafty:
:D
Sailordad, you need some meat in that freezer, feathers are a little crunchy and might taste pretty good with BBQ sauce, but they're not very fillin'.
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