I still have about 45 Indian necks stashed away and are mostly browns, light gingers, and creams. They still get some use for tailing material, quill bodies, and for hackle point wings. Herter?s used to sell ungraded Indian necks 6 for $5.37 back in 1972. A friend used to buy 1,000 necks at a time from a feather merchant directly from India back in the late 70?s as he tied commercially. A lot of what he received was junk but apparently there was always plenty of good hackle to make it worthwhile for him. He always got a certain percentage of whites and creams which he photo dyed to make the blue dun color. Then the genetic capes came on the scene and the Indian capes pretty much lost his interest. The Indian necks still serve a purpose for me and for a long time the Indian capes were all that we had to use- and now with the genetic capes today we sure have some really nice hackle to tie with. I wonder what it will be like 5 to 10 years from now!