[Cob] Chicken feathers

[Henry Raduazo]

	I personally would like to get Chicken manure. It is one of the best  
(most concentrated) natural fertilizers that you can get. The  
problems regarding chickens is that the industry is not oriented  
towards multiple value added products. Their gaol is to produce and  
sell one product and every thing else is waste which they throw in a  
hole and burry as cheaply as possible. Maryland is only beginning to  
pass laws that might some day encourage them to produce multiple  
products with their waste streams.
	Right now the only thing you can do is drive up to a processing  
plant and try to make a deal, and if your deal inconveniences them  
too much forget it. It is not hopeless though. I have been able to  
make deals similar to this, and I have been blown off. It does not  
hurt to try.
Ed

On Jan 5, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Bryan wrote:

> good idea - wish I knew how to get them and use them
>
> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Bill Christensen <
> billc_lists at greenbuilder.com> wrote:
>
>> At 5:55 PM -0800 1/1/09, Luanna Dycus wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I saw something interesting on Bill Nye (green channel).  Someone is
>>> using chicken feathers to make backer boards for computer circuit
>>> boards using soy resin as a binder.  They said that USA produces 2
>>> billion pounds of feathers going to landfills per year.  My thought
>>> was how to use them for insulation.  Any ideas?
>>
>> it's been done - as others have mentioned, quilts and pillows have
>> long been made with feathers of various foul.
>>
>> For those that remember the (supposed) origins of the band name The
>> Crickets from the movie The Buddy Holly Story, the boys were
>> practicing/recording in the garage or some such outbuilding, which
>> was insulated with chicken feathers.  A cricket was hiding in them
>> and they could hear it on the tapes.  In the movie I think I remember
>> them pulling off the chicken wire which was holding the feathers in
>> place in order to chase the little guy down.
>>
>> I don't know what kind of practical considerations there would be
>> with using feathers.  As others mentioned, they might harbor unwanted
>> critters or pathogens.  They might also be real nasty if they got
>> wet.  You'd have to ask elsewhere for answers to those kinds of
>> questions.
>>
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