On just about all of the capes I've bought in the past few years, I've noticed a distinct lack of decent spade hackle I like for tailing dry flies. Are they breeding these feathers out of the rooster or are they just not including them when they cut the cape off the bird? I've got some older Metz necks with a decent amount of spade feathers and I bought bags of spade hackle from Charlie Collins (great stuff, I can put tails on flies up to #6 with no problem) years ago in brown, dun, ginger and grizzly and won't run out for another decade or so. Just curious.

Regards,
Scott