Feathers

Had a busy day yesterday. Culled a large white (cobb) rooster for his feathers. Yes the meat is in the fridge marinating.[]

Then spent the day washing and dying them.

My house smelt of artificial food flavorings - Grape, Cherry, Orange & Blueberry.[xx(][xx(][xx(]

We now have 4 piles of Mauve, Red, Orange & Blue feathers.

The red ones are the most interesting as I ran out of white feathers so had to use the Faverolles molt feathers from the bottom of the hen house.[]

The white parts are bright red the black bits are shiny with a red sheen and the tan bits have gone copper. Stunning.

Still Green (lime) and Yellow (tumeric) to go and I have completely run out of feathers.

Best go and get the other rooster...

so what are you going to do with them? pics required of course.

DD is using them for a school project.

She took some to school today and the Teacher told some of the kids that we have chickens that color in the back yard.[:0]

and no doubt some of the kids believed [}] would be fun to have rainbow chickens though

sounds like fun, and a little (!) messy