Once the feathers are deemed satisfactory, the rooster is clip in hair extensions , and his
feathers plucked. His lifeless body is then thrown out for compost; Thomas
Whiting, the company founder (via the Orange County clip on hair extensions ), claims
that, ”They aren’t good for anything else.” The Whiting Farms website boasts remy
hair “over 125,000 total birds (were) harvested in 2000.”