You can use most of the feathers from a partridge. One thing is to buy a whole skin. Those little packages are almost a waist of time.. The feathers from the back, neck and wing coverts work very well. You can tye them in by the tip of the feather or the stalk. If you tye them in by the tip you can just doa typical hackle wrap or you can do a thorax wrap. If you do a thorax wrap have your thread hanging back about two eye lengths, wrap the hackle back then weave you thread back through the hackle, tye off and whip a head.

I know threre are some demo's here but you can also find some on http://www.danica.com