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- If a feather is plucked vs falls out because it's ready to, the stem would not look hollow, correct?

I live in a state of constant anxiety, don't mind me.

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This looks like a molted feather :)

Feathers will be hollow as soon as they are done growing. Plucked feathers will have a bit of skin or blood at the tip, look crunched, or snipped.
 

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This looks like a molted feather :)

Feathers will be hollow as soon as they are done growing. Plucked feathers will have a bit of skin or blood at the tip, look crunched, or snipped.
That's good to know. Molting is such a weird process to me. She exploded in tiny feathers but now all her big feather are coming out and it's throwing me for a loop.
 
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