It's cheap, and it works!

I have one! It is useful for dusting my blinds and removing cobwebs from light fittings amongst many other awkward dusting jobs.

Well I`m of to Morrisons girls.
Thank you.

They are the best

A friend recommended a feather duster to me about 40 years ago. I bought one and wouldn'tuse anything else.

If you flick your feather duster over tv screen, the absorbed static will attract dust

Phoenix beware the moult! ?.

I had one and loved it, then one day it just sort of gave up the ghost and feathers flew everywhere when I wielded it about.

Sorry, posted too soon.
The moulty one was ostrich. Ordinary feather dusters don't seem to have the same problem.?

Mines ostrich Auntieflo no sign of moult so far!

The person that recommended it says it must be ostrich, as the feathers are softer and dislodge the dust, but not the ornaments, which ordinary feather duster are inclined to do, being stiffer.

I've had one since I got married. It was in a box of cleaning things left in the under stairs cupboard for me by my late mother in law. Everything in the boxes very useful and much appreciated.

I think I'd rather see the feathers still on the ostrich. Unless they are shed naturally it will be detrimental to the bird to have them plucked and, most certainly detrimental, if the ostrich has been killed for meat.

Phoenix, patience is a waiting game.?

I have an extra large one feathers are about 8ins long, on an extendable pole. I got it in Dunelm Mills . Very good for light fittings and curtain poles efc.

quizqueen I think there a a few ostrich farms in the UK, pretty sure there is/was one here in Devon.

If animals are bred for meat, it makes sense to use as much of the animal as possible, I believe the leather from ostriches is also used.

If I'm correctly informed, ostrich meat is low in cholesterol, as is venison.

a hairdryer on a very low setting works well .I have an old very intricately carved chess set and thats what I use on it .

Mine is not a real feather duster, but a fluffy one probably made from petrochemicals, well you cant have everything and as I have had the same duster for decades, at least it isn't one use plastic.

Do the feathers retain the dust or does the flicking just relocate the dust? Just asking ?

Mine is the same as MONICA'S. it was cheap many years ago. I wouldn't be without it as it saves a lot of bending and stretching and reaches the cobwebs and everything else.

They seem to retain it Marmight, I took it outside and gave it a shake when I'd finished.

@quizqueen. If the animal is dead, for whatever reason, doesn’t it make sense to use whatever resources are available to us?
? can’t believe I am contributing on a thread about feather dusters. ?

I doubt if mine is from any animal but I love feather or non-feather dusters, and mine has a telescopic handle so I can reach up high.

Dusting? What’s dusting?

Ate ostrich in Africa. It was just like fillet steak.

I have a feather duster and had it for years but I don’t know what the feathers are. However it does the job particularly reaching cobwebs in high places.

Esspee: At least this is a warm and friendly post unlike the one I have just waded through on different opinions !