Show Off Your Games!

[roosterhavoc]

I suppose in the spring I will be over 100 or so. Makes for some long days in the winter with frozen waterers.

 

[sdm111]

The man who mentored me when I first got into games ( when the sport was legal ) was a fly tier it was so cool to watch him do it with the different vise type things with the clips and magnifying glasses. He raised ornamental pheasants for the feathers and I had a few myself but just to have

 

[roosterhavoc]

I've been tying for years. The roosters need to be penned separately same as game fowl. They will destroy each other's capes and saddles.

 

[JShubin]

I've been tying for years. The roosters need to be penned separately same as game fowl. They will destroy each other's capes and saddles.

What do they look like? do you have some pictures?

 

[roosterhavoc]

The few people that raise them usually individually cage them in a barn. I have a big shed but it's full of duck decoys. So it's pens for me.

 

[roosterhavoc]

terrible pic but this guy is young yet

 

[roosterhavoc]

this guy is just over 2 months

 

[roosterhavoc]

the saddles will grow out to be extremely long and dragging the ground

 

[sdm111]

So what you do, didn't pay attention to mr. Abe do u wait for a molt or you just go yankin? And yeah that's a real question

 

[roosterhavoc]

So what you do, didn't pay attention to mr. Abe do u wait for a molt or you just go yankin? And yeah that's a real question

he probably did just pull a few feathers here and there with pheasants. With chickens it's the first set of feathers that your after. They have been bred for years for this instead of getting better over time. Usually about 10 months to mature. You actually harvest the chicken and skin out the cape and saddle. A scalpel is useful for the comb. The feathers are of most use to fly tiers on the hide with the oils in tact. The capes and saddles will last for years if properly packaged to keep bugs out.