Feathers for fly tying

[Flyfish1985]

Hey all. I tie flies as a hobby. Well, my wife calls it a hobby but it probably be more accurately described as an addiction. I love tying big artistic display flies. To do that you need big beautiful feathers. Right now I am looking for any of the eyed feathers from any of the Peacock Pheasants, and of the Tragopans, the feathers from Silvers, Reeves, Lady Amherst. The center tail feathers from those pheasants but also from Elliotts, Coppers, Amgolds or any hybrids. Man that is a lot. I kinda just started rambling but it is all true. If you have any of the Peacock Pheasants eyed feathers of any size that you do not need or just have sitting around shoot mea PM and I will take them off your hands. Thanks!

Zach

 

[Duckopolis]

Sorry, I don't have any. You could try getting some from a local farm, feed store, or gift shop. Many carry peacock feathers.

 

[Flyfish1985]

Thanks Duck. I will check that out.

 

[Duckopolis]

If you live near a tractor supply, They sell packs of feathers for decoration.

 

[perchie.girl]

I am in the process of discovering Fly tieing sources as well. My interest is to be a supplier. eventually. There are quite a few online sources as well as Ebay for the types of feathers you want.

I am a good year or two before I can start learning how to process Whole Chicken and Guinea pelts.

http://www.featheremporium.com/full-skins.html

http://www.featheremporium.com/index.html

First place I saw the skins was Ebay. Cant find em now.

deb

 

[Flyfish1985]

Hey there Deb. Glad to know that I am not the only die hard out there who loves to get feathers from everywhere. Thanks for the heads up on others sources. I just thought I would try some of the roads less traveled as far as feather sources go. Do you fish and tie as well?

Zach

 

[perchie.girl]

Hey there Deb. Glad to know that I am not the only die hard out there who loves to get feathers from everywhere. Thanks for the heads up on others sources. I just thought I would try some of the roads less traveled as far as feather sources go. Do you fish and tie as well?

Zach

Naw... I have only fished a couple of times... You know the kind Killing worms and messing with the bobbing thingy.... LOL

But I am a crafter and been known to make earrings and stuff like that. Decorations for hats ... you name it. I completely understand the art involved with fly tieing though.


I WAS on the way to raising up Guinea Fowl finally had my first batch growed up and working on egg laying. Coyotes got in and took them all along with about twenty five Wellsummers. and a few just goofball birds pets really. They killed almost forty birds in one fell swoop.... No it wasnt dogs either because at least three quarters of the birds were just gone.... and I only found bits and pieces of the rest. Could have been bobcat or mountain lion too. and the coyotes just came in for leftovers.

So after catastrophic failure on my part I am redoing the coop. I still want to raise Guinea fowl for sale here locally... and for the table.... but after I found out how much you could get for a pelt.... I got to thinking.... Why destroy all those beautiful feathers.... So my next venture will be to learn the type of taxidermy it requires and sell the whole pelt. that would be the same for Roosters I dispatched. I will save the hens for plucking and sell those feathers in bags.

Its going to take me a while.... I get about with a rolling walker or cane. and the rebuild on the coop is a job I have to do. Thank goodness its built of modular kennel panels. Each one I can handle all by myself.

Look under my signature for the link of my coop rebuild.

deb

 

[Flyfish1985]

Hey there everyone. Thought that I would give this thing a bump. Looking for center tail feathers from Lady Amherst, Elliots, Reeves, and different color phases of Golden Pheasants along with different color phases of turkey tail and turkey secondary wing feathers. If anyone has anything like that available that is just sitting around and they would like to get rid of, PM me and let me know.

Thanks,

Zach

 

[Quail Jailer]

What part of the world are you in Zach?

 

[Flyfish1985]

I am in the United States. Where are you out of Quail Jailer?