As the pin feathers become full feathers, other feathers are shed.

They produce more breast meat and their pin feathers are less visible when the carcass is dressed due to their white color.

Most pin feathers are a reddish buff in color and, therefore, do not detract from the carcass appearance very much.

The eyes of the young open around 3 weeks and the yellow down will show black pin feathers at about 6 weeks.

Perhaps this was the itching of my new pin feathers.

The feather follicles appear on the fourth day and pin feathers emerge after a week.

A pin feather, sometimes called a "blood feather", is a developing feather on a bird.

The pin feather looks somewhat like a feather shaft.

However, unlike a fully developed feather, the pin feather has a blood supply flowing through it.

As such, if the pin feather is damaged, a bird can bleed heavily.