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16 years ago
Have you ever wanted a absolutely gorgeous feather? Either to have for it's inherent beauty, or as a symbol or talisman of your nature-based spirituality, or even as a canvas for art? Let me tell you about this place I found and have worked with...
http://www.stmarymagdalenes.org/pea.....ckfeathers.htm
St. Mary Magdalene's retreat in Yureka, California is a ranch apparently owned by a church, and, among other things, they have an apparently large flock of peacocks. From these peacocks -- and peahens -- they collect naturally shed feathers of all varieties. Of course everyone knows of the long blue and green eye-feathers from the peacock's train, but did you know that peacock also has 18 inch golden primary flight feathers? or foot-long jet black wing feathers? or foot-long dappled golden and black wing feathers? They do! And the feathers are beautiful, large, strong, and some of them come with sizable stalks befitting an old-style feather quill pen.
I happened upon St. Mary's site a while ago when I found an astounding golden feather I was sure belonged to a golden eagle. While researching it I discovered St. Mary's site and, to my surprise, learned that the feather was from not an eagle, but a lowly domesticated peacock. But this is a fortuitous thing as I later learned that owning feathers from wild, non-game birds is illegal. Personally I feel this is a very stupid law, but that's a rant for another day. As these feathers come from domestic birds, they are 100% legal own and look just as stunning as any eagle feather.
What's better, is St. Mary's sells their feathers -- which they collect from the ground once the birds have shed them and then clean -- for very low prices. I just recently bought an assortment of 5 of the largest wing feathers ($10 + $8.70 shipping and handling) and found they had also included 4 smaller pretty feathers as well. Though it took a while to receive my order -- they have to wait on the birds, afterall -- when they arrived the feathers were exceptional in quality and exceedingly clean.
If you are ever in need of feathers for any reason, check out St. Mary's. They do good business and their feathers are excellent.
http://www.stmarymagdalenes.org/pea.....ckfeathers.htm
St. Mary Magdalene's retreat in Yureka, California is a ranch apparently owned by a church, and, among other things, they have an apparently large flock of peacocks. From these peacocks -- and peahens -- they collect naturally shed feathers of all varieties. Of course everyone knows of the long blue and green eye-feathers from the peacock's train, but did you know that peacock also has 18 inch golden primary flight feathers? or foot-long jet black wing feathers? or foot-long dappled golden and black wing feathers? They do! And the feathers are beautiful, large, strong, and some of them come with sizable stalks befitting an old-style feather quill pen.
I happened upon St. Mary's site a while ago when I found an astounding golden feather I was sure belonged to a golden eagle. While researching it I discovered St. Mary's site and, to my surprise, learned that the feather was from not an eagle, but a lowly domesticated peacock. But this is a fortuitous thing as I later learned that owning feathers from wild, non-game birds is illegal. Personally I feel this is a very stupid law, but that's a rant for another day. As these feathers come from domestic birds, they are 100% legal own and look just as stunning as any eagle feather.
What's better, is St. Mary's sells their feathers -- which they collect from the ground once the birds have shed them and then clean -- for very low prices. I just recently bought an assortment of 5 of the largest wing feathers ($10 + $8.70 shipping and handling) and found they had also included 4 smaller pretty feathers as well. Though it took a while to receive my order -- they have to wait on the birds, afterall -- when they arrived the feathers were exceptional in quality and exceedingly clean.
If you are ever in need of feathers for any reason, check out St. Mary's. They do good business and their feathers are excellent.
I wish they had a white bird. Those are stunning, and very hard to come by.
AdmYrrek
~admyrrek
OP
Find someone who owns geese perhaps? Or if there's somewhere where geese and swans populate around your area you could hunt for some as geese and swans count as game birds (geese anyway, I think swans too). There are a number of other sites on the internet which sell feathers, though St. Mary's was by far the best of any I came across.
I meant white peacock tail feathers.
AdmYrrek
~admyrrek
OP
Ah. Nevermind then.
