Ostrich Farming in the Cold, Frozen North | Tales from Tehama

In January 1879, a pound of ostrich feathers from South Africa sold for $860, or $8 a feather ($250 a feather in today’s dollars). With single ostriches able to yield 100 feathers a year, this caused some $eriou$ interest in raising ostriches to supply a ready market with their plumes. In 1888, Tehama County’s first […]

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