Hard Feather And Soft Feather

 Hard The plumage cover the feathaer of the chicken. The plumage also make the bird beautiful. There are hudreds feather color. People use the feather for duster that clean the room and the window. 

Actually  there are some kind of the plumage such as fluffy plumage, Silkie plumage and so on. Only two kind of two feather of the chicken such as hard type and soft type. the hard type is the kind of the chicken is less fluffy and near its body. The hard type come from tropical country that does not need cold protection. This make the chicken slim. the example of the chicken is red jungle fowl, Asil, Modern Game, and others. 

The other type is hard feather . this chicken has more abundant feather and they look fats. The example of the chicken is Silkie, Orpington, And Cochin. Soft feather  can protect the chicken from cold climate. some chicken can lay while in winter condition. The soft feather has produce more feather than the soft feather. the wing of soft feather chicken are used from badminton shuttlecock. 

Old German Owl Pigeon: The Pigeon from German

 German also breed some famous pigeon breed. That i have write about german homer pigeon. today i write the a german fancy pigeon that i think is similiar to the Satineete due to the small head relative to its body. The wing color is blue ash with double bar at the midlle of the wing. The remain feather color is white. There are some various of the color such as ash, red, brown, spread, white, and dilutes of same bas color

This pigeon is German owl. it called owl, referring its similarity face to owl. do not imagine the bird face is similar to big eye owl. the owl pigeon does not have big eye. 

German Owl Pigeon

The bird is just for exhibition only. there is notes for the ability of flying of the bird. They may just have ability like other pigeon too. i believe this bird has no acrobat flying ability like tumblr pigeon. 

The bird is descent of the short faced German Shield Owl. Not surprisingly, the face of this German owl also short too. the beak also short. There are some exhibition for the bird there are some judgment. 

For example the frill of the plumage is one of the criterion of the judgment.  The broad breast is also one judgement for this nice bird. all the part of body is also judgement. 

photo by Afif Ramdhasuma from Pixabay

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My Grandfather's turkey have not laid egg

 My grandfather brought at least three turkey that consist a tom and two hens. He love raising so many pet. At his house., he had so many bird such as chicken. The chicken that i remember is Vietnamese bald neck chicken. Either roster and hen are bald neck . The chicken was also bald neck that made me laugh.. The bird that provide the egg is Indian runner. At least my grandpa also had thirty Indian runner duck. I remember there is a black that is similar to Cayuga duck. There is also a flock  geese .

I love live at my grandparents house. The problem is the turkey have not lay the eggs. I suspected the seller sold the sterile hen that cannot lay any eggs. At the time, merely people risen turkey because they could not cook the turkey. On the other hand , chicken is simple to cook.

I browsed and find some reason that the make turkey do not lay eggs. the article said that turkey lays egg at 7 month. i believe my grandfather turkey has reach maturity but it have nit laid egg.  

Photo by Mikkel Bergmann on Unsplash

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Using the Turkey Tail Feather as the Pen

 My friend of my friend used the turkey tail feather for pen. he written the book with it. Certainly, the feather just for the ballpoint casing only. He did not use it as fountain ink pen that is used by the people who live before 18th century. 

To me it is very nice and its attract the other people. People want to use it. Unfortunately, finding the turkey feather is not easy. my country is not United States where we can easily find turkey at there. my friend of my friend  get the feather from its own turkey. he had at least a group that contain a silver color male and two hen. Unfortunately, the turkey had not lay egg until he remove from the town. 

I am afraid that the turkey is sterile. I remember that grandfather also has a group of turkey that never lays any egg. perhaps the Indonesian hot climate is not fit with the turkey. Today we easily find this bird in Indonesia too.

Back to the feather story, i saw the male Muscovy duck has big feathe too. i got from the  duck. the wing cpover fteaher is so long that similiar to turkey but the shape is not straight as the turkey feather. i cut the edge and replace it with the ballpoin refill and i enjoy using it.