Do you keep feathers?

[Aly]

I have a collection of Baby's pretty tail feathers :o
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x144/Gemini2984/MISC%20PIX/100_8075.jpg

[birdieness]

i keep them aswell. I'm filling up a cup with them. I'll have to get a pic some time

[Aly]

Good- atleast I'm not the only one! I have a ziploc bag full.

[Laura]

I have never thought to keep them...lol I just vacuum them up and throw them out :p I am not much of a collector if stuff doesn't get used I get rid of it.

[Aly]

I have never thought to keep them...lol I just vacuum them up and throw them out :p I am not much of a collector if stuff doesn't get used I get rid of it.

For memories?...:o You know...so you could always have a piece of your tiel when....I don't collect much stuff-I always keep feathers though. (the pretty ones anyway) I even have a cheek patch feather and a crest feather.

[atvchick95]

My boyfriend has kept the nice feathers from our Quaker - and he's been sticking them into my Dream catchers ( that I don't care for - but i'm just here wasting space!)

[Bea]

I collect feathers too. I have a zip lock bag for each of my indoor birds and i put any pretty feathers they lose in them. :p

[hozie07]

Anyone keep the little feathers? I'm not sure but aren't they called down feathers? or what are they called?I have a clear jar with alot of those lil feathers there it looks pretty :P

[Bea]

Down feathers are just the little white fluffies. I keep the small but coloured feathers.

[Aly]

The ones in the pic are some of her back and chest feathers. I also have a crest feather from her...waiting on Ziggy to grow a tiel and molt some crest feathers. The budgies all get one bag of little colorful ones.

[Plukie]

Yep, I've kept the tail feathers of Dooby.........so you're not the only feather freak Aly. LOL.

[Rosie]

I keep feathers too...have done for years ever since I got my first budgie. I love the flight feathers espcially and the cute little fluffy feathers hehe! :D

[lizaveta]

I usually do. I don't really have a reason except for that it doesn't feel right to throw them away. I don't know why.

[birdieness]

I usually do. I don't really have a reason except for that it doesn't feel right to throw them away. I don't know why

i know what you mean. I feel horrible if i find a feather on the floor ruined. Not to be mean to my birdies but i love teasing them with their own feather. I will poke it at them and they will hop and stick there wings up. Sometime they will use them as a foot toy like so

http://i201.photobucket.com/albums/aa143/Flockphotos/Cockatiels/september%2007/P9241057.jpg

See. Vary smart birdie and a very cheep and effective foot toy.

[Sophia]

Aww! they look so cute using a feather as a foot toy:) I keep feathers too! Tail feathers and little colourful feathers:D
I love them, i stick them in a book:cool:

[Babi]

I will be keeping some too. I will be making a scrapbook just for them.

[xxxSpikexxx]

I want to keep some of Spikes feathers too. But he just keeps on snaping his tail feathers off. Which makes them not very pretty.

[hozie07]

I dont know what I was thinking when I was talking about the down feathers but those are from my budgies .. :P that's why they're all colorful but I have also kept some of my tiels tail feathers :).

[Bea]

I want to keep some of Spikes feathers too. But he just keeps on snaping his tail feathers off. Which makes them not very pretty.

It takes a moult or two for them to come through nicely without getting snapped i've found. :p Then you can find some keepers.