[Sca-cooks] chicken plucking

[Terry Decker]

Goose down.  Military sleeping bags were designed to handle extreme cold.
Down gives superb insulation with greater compression.  I still have one,
although I haven't been in the Arctic in years.

Bear


>So, what did the medieval folks do with all those feathers?  I
>think as recently as the Vietnam War the US Army was using
>chicken feathers in their sleeping bags. So I imagine the medieval
>folks were doing something with them. They found uses for a lot of
>things that were seem to just throw out. Sometimes the reverse is
>true as well.
>
>Stefan