Best way to store feathers???

[osage outlaw]

What is the best way to store feathers?  Do you guys put any bug repelant in with them?

[sadiejane]

some old guy recommended dryer sheets to me some years ago.
been doing it ever since with no bug problems.
and lots less toxic than moth balls.

i use zip lock bags and make sure they are sealed up good too.
a dryer sheet in each bag.
and another cupla dryer sheets loose in the boxes i keep the bags of feathers in.

[mullet]

I keep mine in the freezer in a plastic bag.

[Pat B]

I keep mine in a zip loc bag in the "other" frig. 

[Ifrit617]

I just put mine in a ziplock bag acording to size and feather type. Never had any problems.

[adb]

zip lok bags in a plastic tub... no problems.

[osage outlaw]

I'm asking because I have always kept mine in a shoebox in my workshop.  I was going through what I have left and it looks like I have a small amount of bug damage on a few of the feathers.  I put them in plastic tubs and put some mothbolls in with them.  I hate the smell of the mothbolls so I was looking for something else to use.  I wonder how the dryer sheets work?

[stringstretcher]

Take and get you some cedar pet bed shavings.  Put a hand full in the bags and seal tight.  Never a problem with bugs.  But I always freeze my feathers for a week or so before storing them to kill anything that might be living on/in them when I get them.

[gstoneberg]

Mine start out on the table next to the turkey fan while it dries.  Soon the wind through the shop blows them on the floor.  I leave them there for a few weeks  and they get blown to the furthest regions of the shop floor.  Months or years later I need them and go on a feather hunt.  If my wife decides to have pity on me and sweep the shop floor they get put in a bag on the shelf.  So far I've had no bug damage with this approach.  There are some missing primaries though so the jury's still out.  I did butcher turkeys one year and threw all of those in a box.  Had lots of bug damage there so I stopped doing that.

George

[Pappy]

I keep mine in ammo boxes ,I fog it with bug spray before I close and seal the lid.
   Pappy

[JW_Halverson]

I just lost about 500 parrot feathers I scored on a sweet deal.  Bugs in the garage did most all of 'em in.  I'm going back to all my buckets of turkey feathers with mothballs next.  I store those feathers in square buckets that originally carried cat litter.  I seperate left from right and tails in the next bucket, then another bucket for goose wings with the lefts and rights divided into plastic bags. 

[crooketarrow]

  I guess I'm lucky because I've never had bug problems except wood borers. I just stick mind up in anything up in the rafters. Until I need them then I chop them then I'll but them in zip locs. I don't do anything special. I've never saw a hole.
  My old friend crooketarrow just stored his in any plastic bag and ad Osage saw dust. It's a natural repellant. Also on snakes He have shavings a foot deep around his cabin. That he added each year.

[Buckeye Guy]

I try to keep them in the freezer ,sometimes I forget !
I had a few hundred dollars worth of antique fishing flies get hit once, I looked at the display once and all that was left was some thread wrapped around the hooks,ouch that one hurt kinda bad!!
They don't seem to like the feathers all that well until after you put all the work into them!
Guy