Eight uses of down and feather

1. Filler for clothing and home textile products

Down is used as filling material for clothing, quilt, pillow, mattress, cushion, sleeping bag, sofa, etc. it has the advantages of light, soft, fluffy, elastic, cold resistance, warmth preservation and so on. It is deeply loved and praised by people.

2. Used as accessories around clothing

We often see that wild bird colored feathers are often inserted on the hat or worn on the chest with beautiful feather flowers as decorations in Western clothing exhibitions and T-stage shows, and the feet show nobility and natural and unrestrained. In China, in ancient times, there were civil servants and military generals who used wild bird feathers as decorations. Civil servants wore flower feathers and inserted a horse and chicken feather behind them to indicate the level of official grade; The general's helmet is inserted with two long pheasant tail hairs to show his majesty.

3. Used for making arts and crafts

Every Christmas in western countries, feathers are processed and dyed into tree flowers, which are decorated on the Christmas tree to increase the festive atmosphere. The patterns of mountains, water, flowers, birds and animals are made by splicing feathers, which are beautiful and bright in color, lifelike in shape and lifelike. Chinese artists are superb in workmanship. They use colored feathers to make all kinds of gorgeous feather screens, which are of great ornamental value.

4. Used for processing Sporting Goods

Goose feather can be used to make badminton. For example, China's aerospace brand badminton made of white goose feather is a famous sports brand product at home and abroad. International sports organizations stipulate it as a special ball for field competition. Goose feathers can also be used to make feather pens, arrow feathers, shuttlecocks and fishing gear.

The bird skins in colored feathers can be made into teaching sample teaching aids for teachers' visual teaching.

5. Used for making daily necessities

Feather fans can be made from carved feathers and goose's knife feathers, pointed feathers and nest feathers. For example, the folk Fan Village of WANGXINGJI in Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, made a round fan with goose knife plume, which has been famous for a long time and sold well at home and abroad.

The three feathers of a cock can be used to make chicken feather brooms and chicken feather strings of various specifications, which are exported to Japan, Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States.

6. For pharmaceutical raw materials

Feather stem can be made into various peptones by cooking at high temperature and adding chemicals. It is an indispensable raw material for antibiotics.

After chemical treatment, feather stem can also be made into multi effect beauty and skin nourishing cream such as antifreeze and crack prevention.

7. Used as feed additive

The feather stalk is dried and crushed at high temperature to make feather powder. As a high protein feed additive, it has great nutritional value and can promote the growth of feeding animals.

8. Used as fertilizer

Feather stalk can be used to make agricultural organic fertilizer, especially in citrus and sugarcane fields. The fertilizer effect is quite high, and the citrus and sugarcane grown are very sweet.

Feather waste is also an excellent fertilizer. After fermentation, it can be applied to farmland to promote crop growth.

The economic value of down in many aspects is gradually found in the long-term production practice. With the progress of science and technology, down will be further developed and utilized, and there will be broader prospects.