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Introducing www.NaturalFeathers.com
NaturalFeathers.com is a vital part of www.TheFeatheredEgg.com, and it now has its’ own website because demand for the cruelty-free feathers that we raised and collected from our own flock of pheasant, chickens, geese, ducks, turkey, and chukar partridge has grown since we started selling them in 2004.
People interested in natural feathers, especially our sustainable, domestic, humane feathers, may or may not also be interested in the blown eggshells for crafts that are featured at www.TheFeatheredEgg.com, and so we’ve developed this website specifically focused on:
The feathers, feather care, feather facts, feather art, and feather crafts.
This blog, with weekly (or fewer?) posts, joins our other blogs about blown eggs, all things chicken, self publishing, and aviation history. A wide range of subjects, but all supported with fun and interesting facts through regular posts.
This site stands alone in order to tailor the information and navigation to our uber-cool feathers, and shopping clicks through to the secure site at www.TheFeatheredEgg.com, where every payment form is ready to go.
Just like this new blog! Ready to fly to feathertastic posting heights!
These tiny peacock body feathers are ideal for feather jewelry. They are sometimes hard to find, unlike the more common tail fan feathers.
Although I did not raise peacocks in my flock, I knew a woman who did, and kept her birds in the same way I did, resulting in cruelty-free feathers.
Her male peacock had fallen in love with her Rhea, and every year he molted. Every year, I bought his fallen feathers.
In this way, I had plenty of peacock feathers for arts and crafts.
The peacock tail feathers are the best known. The eyes on the feathers can turn away the “evil eye” and can symbolize all-seeing wisdom.
I loved the body feathers, because some of them were miniature versions of the tail feathers, complete with eyes, or with rainbow edges – which I used to make delightful small feather jewels.
The long feathery fronds that run up the edges of the tail feathers are called “herl” and I think they are great for mixed media texture, or grouped together for a different kind of feather jewel.
Peacock feather care is similar to our own hair care, except when blow-drying, it is easy to burn the floaty ends of the feathers, so be careful. They can be lightly soaped, washed, and then if you spread citronella or cedar oil on lightly on your hands, you can groom the feathers back to their natural shape. Clean and protected from bugs.
Peacock feathers are included in the feather sampler collections I have on my site. Gorgeous feathers from happy birds.