"Storrmmee" > wrote in message
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> was just discussing this with a df, her grandmother used to somehow
> clean the feathers to make pillows and bed batting with... she doesn't
> remember, but she lolled when she said it popped into her head the
> hoter day and she was trying to figure how she cleaned them and they
> didn't stink.
>
> My sister has started skinning her chickens whn she slaughters so it
> goes quicker, the skin isn't there to tempt and smells less nasty,

My grandmother possibly did. She was born in the early 1890's, didn't
have a house with anything but a dirt floor for many, many years and
made boy's pants out of grain sacks! I cringe when I think what that
must have felt like against the skin.