Timeline for Down feather species, which is best?
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| Oct 12, 2016 at 6:20 | comment | added | Paul Lydon | The reason the different species are quoted as better or worse is directly related to fill power. So Eider Duck down has better fill power than Goose or Duck. Fill power ranges from about 300 for feathers to around 900 for the highest quality goose down. Although the rare and relatively expensive down of certain wild waterfowl species such as The Muscovy duck, or Common eider can have higher fill powers | |
| Oct 11, 2016 at 14:57 | comment | added | njzk2 | does this mean a/ eider duck down has better fill power than duck down in general (i.e. around 950 against 750-800), or b/ for equal fill power, eider down is just better? (the later making no sense to me, but the former making the species comparison useless) | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 19:23 | comment | added | ShemSeger | @coburne - No, penguins have fat for most of their insulation, their feathers are different, fluffy down would make them too buoyant, which would make diving and swimming difficult for them. The chicks have down, but I'm sure if it was feasible to make penguin chick down coats that someone would have done it by now. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 17:02 | comment | added | Paul Lydon | Possibly (see "The thermal insulation of the down and feathers of Chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarctica) and Gentoo (P. papua) penguin chicks" at jstor.org/discover/10.2307/…). However getting hold of the down might prove problematical. | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 16:10 | comment | added | coburne | what about penguin down, would that make a good coat | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 15:27 | history | edited | ppl | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Mar 11, 2015 at 13:30 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | moved from User.Id=2766 by developer User.Id=94 | |
| Mar 11, 2015 at 13:02 | history | answered | Paul Lydon | CC BY-SA 3.0 |