Best way to preserve turkey feathers

[Phares]

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When I get a turkey this season what is the best way you've found to preserve the feathers so my wife will let me keep them in the kid's rooms etc.?

Thanks

[Bowguy]

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Feathers? Wings? Fan? Feathers is generic, explain and I can help you

[LaLongbeard]

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The feathers themselves need no preserving. It’s the meat,skin, fat and oil the feathers are attached to that rot stink and cause bugs. There’s a diy section of this forum that shows step by step how to clean a tail fan meatless so there’s nothing to rot etc. Put the beard end  in regular table salt or borax and it will dry up the meat from were it was attached.

[Phares]

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Thank you guys.  I meant specifically the feathers but I'll check out the DIY section.

[hush]

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Clean all the skin, meat, and fat from the feather. Wash them in blue Dawn with cool/lukewarm water. Dust shaft/quill end with borax. Blow dry with no heat. Carefully realign vanes and barbs with your clean fingers.

[Leland3636]

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I make bucktails out of mine the musky love them.   And they dont cost much to make way cheaper then buying them.

[Bowguy]

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Interesting. Never heard anyone call a fly that wasn’t hair a buck tail. What feathers could you be using?

[Bowguy]

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As La said, there’s no issue

[bonasa]

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I make bucktails out of mine the musky love them.   And they dont cost much to make way cheaper then buying them.

I'm listening. Do you split and spin them like rhea? Curious how you incorporate them into musky lures, I flyfish for pike a lot and would love to tie some new patterns.

[Loyalist84]

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^I'm interested in this too