dpalinsk Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Buddy has been out whacking ducks. Wondering the feathers from any of these ducks would be worth harvesting for making jigs. David 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azsouth Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 absolutely yes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatman Posted January 19, 2017 Report Share Posted January 19, 2017 Absolutely YES!!!!!!!! If you're only tying jigs you want all the chest and flank feathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 On 1/18/2017 at 4:09 PM, dpalinsk said: Buddy has been out whacking ducks. Wondering the feathers from any of these ducks would be worth harvesting for making jigs. David How would you go about harvesting the feathers? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBarlow Posted January 20, 2017 Report Share Posted January 20, 2017 Pluck them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azsouth Posted January 21, 2017 Report Share Posted January 21, 2017 many different ways to do it, you can skin the duck or pluck the feathers.... depending on the time and effort you want to invest. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark poulson Posted January 21, 2017 Report Share Posted January 21, 2017 Thanks guys. A buddy is a big time bird hunter, and I'll hit him up for some of his feathers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpalinsk Posted January 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2017 Finally made it over to my buddies house today. He had three Teal ducks. Plucked a bunch of feathers from them. I'll sort through them later, but I don't think there are many useful feathers off of these ducks. Best part was he gave me the ducks to eat along instructions form preparing and cooking them! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azsouth Posted January 22, 2017 Report Share Posted January 22, 2017 there are so many uses for those feathers imo..... teal are small and don't provide a lot of feathers if plucked, also remember that duck feathers will repel water. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
