1. Filling for clothing and home textiles

Down is used as a filling material for clothing, quilts, pillows, mattresses, cushions, sleeping bags, sofas, etc. It has the advantages of lightness, softness, fluffy, elasticity, cold resistance and warmth, and is deeply loved and praised by people.

2. Used as accessories around clothing

Often we see colorful feathers of wild birds inserted on caps or worn on the chest with beautiful feather flowers in Western clothing exhibitions and T-stage shows as decorations, and the feet show nobility and style. In my country, in ancient times, there were civil officials and military generals who used wild bird feathers as decorations. The civilian officials wore flower feathers on the top and a horse chicken feather was inserted behind them to indicate the level of the official position. Show heroism and might.

3. Used to make arts and crafts

Every Christmas in western countries, they use feather processing and dyeing to make tree flowers, which are decorated on Christmas trees to increase the festive atmosphere. The feathers are spliced and assembled into patterns such as mountains, water, flowers, birds and animals, with beautiful and bright colors, vivid shapes and lifelike shapes. Chinese artists are ingenious and use colorful feathers to make various gorgeous feather screens, which are of great ornamental value.

4. For processing stationery supplies

Goose feathers can be used to make badminton. For example, the aerospace brand badminton made with white goose knife and feathers in my country is a well-known sports product at home and abroad. International sports organizations stipulate it as a special ball for competitions. Goose feathers can also be used to make quills, arrow feathers, shuttlecocks and fishing gear.

Poultry skins in colored feathers can be used to make sample teaching aids for teachers to use in visual teaching.

5. Used to make daily necessities

Feather fans can be made from carved lings and goose's knife lings, pointed lings and nest lings. For example, my country's Zhejiang Hangzhou Wangxingji Fan Village, made of round fans with goose knife feathers, has been famous for a long time and sold well at home and abroad.

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

6. For pharmaceutical raw materials

After the feather stalk is boiled at high temperature and added with chemicals, various peptones can be made, which is an indispensable raw material for antibiotics.

Feather stems are chemically treated, and can also be made into multi-effect beauty and skin creams such as anti-freezing and anti-cracking.

7. Used as feed additive

Feather stalks are dried and pulverized by high temperature treatment to make feather powder, which is rich in nutritional value as a high-protein feed additive and can promote the growth of reared animals.

8. Used as fertilizer

Feather stalks can be used to make agricultural organic fertilizers, especially in citrus and sugarcane fields.

Feather scraps are also a good fertilizer, which can be applied to farmland after fermentation to promote crop growth.

The multi-faceted economic value of down is gradually discovered in the long-term production practice. With the advancement of science and technology, down will be further developed and utilized, and there will be broader prospects.