Doll sized feathers

[catshem]

I'm just curious if anyone knows of a place that sells dollieh (I guess I'm talking 1/6 scale here) feathers. I've been using the average feathers you'd find in the store to make my wings, which can sometimes be a pain having to cut them down to size. So I'm just wondering if any of you saw feathers that were about dolls sized in your travels

[SillyLilPuppet]

Weird suggestion but... know anyone who has pet parakeets/budgies/canaries? We have two parakeets here and they shed feathers fairly regularly, which are very small and pretty. Of course you'd have to find white feathers for angel wings, but there are small white finches and parakeets.

[victoriavictrix]

Well we feed falconry quail to our owl and she never eats the wings, so I could cut them off, dry them, and send a few to you. If you don't mind the ewww factor. Mind, the only color they come in is gray-brown.

[catshem]

Weird suggestion but... know anyone who has pet parakeets/budgies/canaries? We have two parakeets here and they shed feathers fairly regularly, which are very small and pretty. Of course you'd have to find white feathers for angel wings, but there are small white finches and parakeets.

I actually saw someone selling their birds feathers like that and it was quite interesting. I just don't know anyone personally who wouldn't get weirded out by my request. lol

@VV: You own an owl? That's so cool o_o I know nothing about birds and real feathers, is there any kind of care I would have to do to the feathers?

[landwhale]

VV owns a lot of birds lol. Seems she is quite familiar with a range of animals according to the books she writes. She actually wrote one of my favorite series as a kid lol.

[Lamia of the Dark]

Well we feed falconry quail to our owl and she never eats the wings, so I could cut them off, dry them, and send a few to you. If you don't mind the ewww factor. Mind, the only color they come in is gray-brown.

Hey, if you're giving away dried quail wings...

[Greyhaunt]

VV is definitely the Bird Queen!

[victoriavictrix]

My husband and I rehabbed birds of prey, including the fish-eaters (egrets, rails, cranes, herons) for almost 20 years. We stopped 'cause someone opened a 401C (nonprofit) nearby and they can do more than we could. We don't actually "own" the owl, we take care of it for a local master falconer who doesn't have room for it in her mews. And the owl loves Larry, insofar as something with a brain hardwired for hunting can "love" anything. We also have a dozen parrots and cockatoos.

You'd have to pluck the wings; there's no good way of preserving them and they'd get bugs real fast. That's basically it. The wings and the feathers are clean. Chey eats half a quail a day so there'd be a pair of wings every other day, and I'd just hang them up to dry, seal them good, stick a mothball in there with them JIC and ship them off in a $5.20 small priority mail flat rate box. Cover the shipping and there you go. These are coturnix quail, non-game birds, so it is legal to have the feathers. The only feathers you can legally have are from pet birds and non-game farm birds like coturnix quail, chickens, ducks, geese, and turkeys. Otherwise....$50,000 fine.

[Wardah]

VV is a published writer?

[victoriavictrix]

VV is a published writer?

Yah.

http://www.mercedeslackey.com