I almost came unglued, LOL

You just can't imagine my reaction when I saw my $150 Rooster on the floor with my dog chomping at it. I freaked for sure and I guess my wife must have thought I was having a heart attack or something.

After the fact and chewing my dogs tail out, I found not too much damage, but a picture now is not possible since I cut it in half so I had a place to put it. That thing in one piece was so long. He did pull out a few small hackle and a few really long ones from the saddle, but not hurt. I can't figure out how he got it from right behind me without me knowing it. I had it sitting on top of one of my plastic cabinets and he just smoothed it out of here. Good thing I was getting up when I did to go have supper because there is no telling how bad it could have been. After all it's not like I can go get another one as there is none now.

I may still try to fit it together for a picture, but don't know.

So got them in and only could feel, why didn't I get the rest of what I was looking at. Well now here I am doing it again and about to order more JV hens and a couple of capes 2 that are Grade #1 & maybe 2 or 3 grade #2. I just want to get this all behind me and then just wait for the best of the best next year. Or look at Whiting for a few more I want really bad. I am building a fine selection.

Will get a few pictures of some, for sure this brown Hen he sent me, boy that thing is a beauty. Not a beautiful as my full Rooster was, Boohoo sniff sniff. That thing is a Medium Barred Ginger with some spots of what I would call Light Barred Ginger on the cape.

Told that dog he sure would make some nice Black & White Dubbing.

Skip

Gotta love dogs. Had a half dozen kiptails "disappear" one time. Not as costly as one of them high dollar capes but still a pain. Glad you got to it before any real damage was done.

I definitely got a kick out of the skip I think I'd be upset for quite a while if it was my dog. He might find himself on attending board. No more fancy Friskies for him.

bob.

Yes Bob, I was not in a good mood with him after that.

Smooth it was way more than a cape, it was full bird with cape saddle and all. That son of a gun was probably 3' long from top to bottom.

looked a lot like this bird with a lighter cape color and longer tail (a few of the saddle feathers were like 18"-19" long)...
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LOL Skip :)The dogs have their own world. Glad to see it is still together.

Skip I want to see the puppy dog jigs when you get em tied. LOL Don't be too hard on him. He's just doing what dogs do. That's easy for me to say isn't it? LOL

Skip

My lab did that with some pheasant skins I got in the mail. My wife just tossed the box in the house and when I got home she had tore up 2 of em. The other 6 were ok and I had lots of baggies of feathers.

Hpe you enjoy tying with the Conranch hackles, I told ya once ya got you'd wished you got more LOL

Fatman

Well even before they got here I was making another order list. I got 4 of his JV Roosters a good while back (probably at least a year and maybe 2 years) and like them and just have not went back until now to get some good stuff. Have barely used the JV's I got so far either. Gonna have a good supply of a number of colors. I still want more, but he doesn't have them. So next year.

Skip

About to pick up a few more capes and a few more hens.

Skip, I happened on to this fella at a show in Cedar Rapids Iowa. His site is incomplete, but I'll bet he would take pictures if you had an interest. I bought a lot of dyed dry fly hackle from him. Bright colors and most in the $30- to $40 range. He had one unbelievable mounted bird but I didn't realize it was for sale. Mounted Birds Illinoisgiller

The dawg was just doing his job trying to save you from that mean old hen that was attacking you. Give the dawg a bone and say "Nice dawg. "

I learned to keep my valuable stuff up high from my dawgs. LOL. Then I realized the Kip tails were just "Things" that could be replaced. Memories like the expression on my face are priceless.

Yeah, I was mad at my dawg too but only for a few hours.

Yeah the wife and I started calling him Rooster last evening after he did that. Even thought about adding the name Cogburn to that, LOL!

Skip

I bet the dog thought it tasted like chicken, paw lickin good. I defintely would have lost it.

Illinoisgiller

Nice site and some good looking feathers. I believe after everything I've read that most of the dun hackle birds are from original Darbee eggs. He sent out so many to different people, and then some of them sold entire flockes to others so the strains are still out there.

I do wish though that they hadn't killed the spade hackles with the genetic engineering they've done to get the super hackles.

Fatman

He sure raises some beautiful birds. I just added a bunch more today, one #1 Silver Badger and one #1 Variant capes and then a few grade #2 capes. Spent my budget I am pretty sure.

Hey Skip- ifn the pooch like it the crappie ought to go for the ties :D