chicken feather, noun phrase

Obsolete. Ostrich-farming. chick.
c1881 A. Douglass Ostrich Farming 92 (fold-out)Chicken feathers, being the first crop from the wings of the young bird.
1890 A. Martin Home Life 105A young ostrich’s rough, bristly, untidy-looking ‘chicken feathers’ are plucked for the first time when he is nine months old; they are stiff and narrow, with very pointed tips, and their ugly appearance gives no promise of future beauty.
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