OK 2J.
I'm very sorry all this had to happen.
Earlier, when I went out to the chicken run, I was just overwhelmed with the mess! The ground was covered in feathers. How on earth was I gonna get it all up? I guessed with a rake, but ugh, what a task.
Amazingly, the run is almost all cleaned up. The little sparrows and grackles have almost completely taken the feathers away that all over the place out there. I guess they're lining their nests with them.
I have pictures of it with the feathers everywhere, for documentation sake, but there aren't very many left now...and they're still picking up.
Hmph.