On Ebay: $164 Cree Cape, How high will it go?

[Greenmtnflier]

For those of you who are curious, go to the Ebay auction site and do a search for Item number: 7244997559

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[ScottP]

For $160 I could get 8 #3 capes (4 brown and 4 grizzly) and tie up a whole lot more flies. I must be sitting on a gold mine - I got a Metz #2 Cree off of E-Bay a few years ago for $25 and have barely touched it; guess I should store it in a safe deposit box (with moth crystasl, of course). I hope whoever ends up with that cape enjoys it.

Regards,
ScottP

[J Castwell]

Does it say who raised the chicken?

[Garic]

it's listed as a Whiting/Keough Dry Fly Neck Grade 1

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[Eight Thumbs]

This question may show my lack of knowledge in this area, but I thought that Whiting and Keough were two separate operations. If they are indeed separate operations, is such a cape possible?

I would also be very uncomfortable paying that kind of money for something on eBay that I haven't seen. 8T

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[harleybob87]

The thing I like about this auction is "THERE ARE NO RETURNS ON THIS PRODUCT" That in itself tells me stay away , run , don't look back

[J Castwell]

Can this be 'cross-breeding'? Did a chicken get out one dark night and....

[flymaker2]

The no return policy on an item like this is normal. I can imagine that someone could receive it-pluck a dozen good feathers from the neck and then return it sauying it wasn't what they wanted. Then argue with seller about missing feathers. The feed back is 100% posative. No worries me thinks

That said-I would not pay that price for the cree neck. I found plenty of cree necks for around $50.00 each and even some tyer's grade cree necks for $20.00.

[Donald Nicolson]

I picked up an Indian 'Cree' neck for about $10-15 a couple of years ago. No doubt it is not strictly speaking a 'proper' cree but I don't think I would pay $164.00 for any neck.
At the time I did a little research on flies that required a cree hackle and didn't find all that many. I suppose it will be framed and hung on the wall of somebody's den as a trophy.
He'd (somehow I don't think it will be a she.) be well advised to spend his money on a few good books on fly fishing/tying.
Or maybe even better giving the money to help junior fly fishers.

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[This message has been edited by Donald Nicolson (edited 01 June 2006).]

I bought a Conranch #1 Cree for $200. If you want a top grade Cree Cape, that is the going cost.

You have to understand what is involved to breed a cree, it is a mutant coloration that is created by, selective breeding of a recessive DNA pattern in a family of chickens. Usually only one out of two hundred fifty thousand capes are a Cree.

Denny Conrad has a Cree article on FAOL, and he does seem to have broken the Cree Code. His first year of breeding for Cree, he ended up with 16 Cree Capes. I also bought a Barred Ginger Cape that was the brother of the Cree. Same Rooster and Hen, different results.

Denny's Cree's are true Cree, not close Cree, or variations.

~Parnelli