Let me tell a little story now. I bought a full rooster from Conranch (top quality stuff) and it was just beautiful. I left it only table where I put materials I tie with and turned around to mess on the computer. Then I noticed it gone and stand up, see my dog with my full Rooster eating some of it. I freak out! In the end he only messed up a tiny bit, but if I had not caught him when I did he would have ruined the entire $200 bird! It is beautiful barred ginger color and later I adde one Cree Rooster. I bought a good many of their capes and saddles as they have some of the best quality tying hackle in the world. They were smaller than Whiting, but also had great stuff! The stems from them were not round, but oval so they wouldn't roll when tying them. Have no idea what they do now since he sold the operation to someone else, but his birds had not had any outside blood entered into his birds for over 40 years.

On other side note, that dog would love to have been able to get into my buck tails and he would have eaten the entire thing apart to get that hide! Anything that had hide on it, he wanted bad!