So I was thinking of making a bird and animating it so it would puff up like turkeys do when they do a mating display.
Is it possible to animate the particle fur system to do that?
You can control hair strands with force fields, works pretty well. If you use the simple ‘force’ you can make the hairs move away from it with a positive force, or attract hairs with a negative force 
Force fields?
Okay. I’ll go look them up and check them out. 
Thank you Richardvdoost.