OK got the rest of this high cost spree (Pics)

This is the last for a while unless some want to see others I have and I do have some nice ones. BTW them hens are going to go to very good use, LOL! I will most likely tie all of them way before any of the others are used up.

Oh if I had some help holding and bending these I would have a lot better pictures of the ones with another view.

At some point I will most likely remove these pictures and just put them here for some that wanted to see them.

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JV Grizz Hen...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04867.jpg

Black/Brown JV Hen...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04870.jpg

Grade #1 Variant...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04893.jpg

Another view of above...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04894.jpg

Grade #2 Furnace...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04886.jpg

Another view of above...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04889.jpg

Brown Gr. #2...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04883.jpg

Silver/Gold Badger Gr.# 1 (didn't know what this was going to be, LOL)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04877.jpg

Another view...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04880.jpg

White Gr. #2...
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...s/DSC04874.jpg

They are all very cool looking.Especially the Grade #1 Variant.

Are the longer breast feathers what they call saddle hackle?

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Originally Posted by ScottV

Are the longer breast feathers what they call saddle hackle?

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The Brest is the cape and the saddle is below that and all the way back to the tail. If you look at that whole rooster the cape comes about half way down and the rest of the long thin feathers below that is the saddle. The saddle normally has smaller and longer feathers and don't have as many wide ones.

Here is Denny's saddle page...
http://www.conranch.com/saddles.html

And his cape (which goes all the way up the neck to the head) page...
http://www.conranch.com/capes.html

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Love the variant.

You'll find a couple of cree feathers in the varient or real clost to it. Nice skins, Got the grizzly myself and yeah it's nice.

Fatman

I'm drooling here! You might as well box up those JV hens and send 'em to me... Pretty sure you're not gonna like 'em! ;)

Zac

Thanks Skip, I'm learning more every day. Those are some beautiful Pics.

Those are sweet!!

Nice variant and the Furnace makes a great bugger,one of my favorite colors.

I've never used Hen Necks.What do you use them for and how do you use them?

They work great for soft hackle and even palmered hackle or collar jigs. It's not just the neck, that is the whole bird, saddle and cape.

Almost forgot to say that if the hens come from a place like where I got them the stems are first rate too just like the Roosters.

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Looks like you have enough to tie for a couple years there. But I haven't seen one thing, no turkey! Not like it is a new color variant though so not very useful in the long run. I use some for certain things but only because I don't have your selection to choose from.

I'd also like to see some tied from all these beautiful capes.

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Originally Posted by fish_4_all

Looks like you have enough to tie for a couple years there. But I haven't seen one thing, no turkey! Not like it is a new color variant though so not very useful in the long run. I use some for certain things but only because I don't have your selection to choose from.

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I do have a little turkey tail feathers and just use that for flies, Have not tried any on jigs yet. This is by no means all the capes and saddles I have. Lots of colors that are not represented here in these few pictures.

Got so many birds and types of feathers and hair I probably couldn't tie them all up in my life time.

I was just trying so show some the different kinds of capes and saddles and things like that. Not showing for any other reason than Scott ask a question and I just wanted to give him an idea of some of what it out there to use tying.

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