A great way to speed up your tying is to take all the hackle off the skin and sort them by size. I just put mine in Ziplocs. You can also move the lesser quality hackles into a streamer/wet fly bag.
When you sit down to tie #16 dry flies all of them will have the correct size hackle and you won't have to sort through them while tying.
Unless it's a sizeable piece of fur that you're using a fair bit I'd just pitch it.
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