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chicken feathers for fletching??

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PrimitiveHunter57:
I have a couple of tail feathers from a chicken that are 6'' long. Im not sure if they'er thick anough fill me please.

aero86:
some native americans used crow feathers, so i dont see why chicken wont work. 

primitivehunter2:
six inches is a little small but should work fine, your only gonna get a 4 to 4.5 inch fletching though.  size of the feather doesnt really matter as much as how they're fletched on.. remember to use the tail feathers that were located from the same side so that they are all cupping the air the same way. they should work fine so happy hunting!

JW_Halverson:
Use whatcha got.  Just don't use hawk, falcon, eagle, vulture, owl, or songbird feathers if you can't afford to pay serious $$$$ to the US Fish and Wildlife and be under their close scrutiny for the rest of your life.

I have seen an original Sioux arrow at the Museum of the Fur Trade that uses a mallard secondary wing feather (it has that cool metallic blue section) and a yellow shafted flicker primary as two of the three feathers.  Near as I can tell, the third feather is sharptailed grouse wingfeather. 

JackCrafty:
I've used guinea wing and black roster tail feathers.  They work, of course, but will not keep their shape well if you shoot a lot.  I use them mainly for kids arrows because they are cheap.

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