Blood lines

Line A (Merckx Janssen Bros) View the pigeons of this line

75 % of our family today is down from the Merckx Line of the Janssen Bros from Arendonk. We obtained these pigeons from Marien Pieterse. With these pigeons together with the Kadet line from Karel Meulemans and the van de Flaes Pigeons, Leo established his current family. It became apparent to Leo that the Merckx line pigeons for ten’s of years produced a long line of “cracks”, who seldom missed the prize list and had a tendency to fly ahead of the flock, besides being very prepotent breeders. A nice experience for Leo was, that after the passing of Marien Pieterse in 1984, a total sale was held of his pigeons, the auctioneers (Stan & Gust Raympeckers) called Leo and asked “leo, don’t you want to sell your pigeons”. The reason for asking this question was that Leo owned more pigeons from the Merckx and Kadet, then Marien Pieterse and his partner Bert van Es did themselves, the answer, was no of course. The NL80-351441 inherited his qualities from his famous grandfather the old Merckx, from the Janssen Bros, Leo never raced him and because he possessed all the super qualities, was directly put to stock. This cock, when mated to NL78-194448 it formed the foundation pair for the “A” line. This mating was like drawing the winning ticket from the lottery, as they produced many winners. Later it also became apparent, that they passed on their winning genes. An example is the NL81-1436419, a “perfect pigeon” who had everything. He became next to his father the “441” the best breeder from the loft. The “419” bred to a daughter of the “Dunne” van Piet Voogel, a Janssen & an de Flaes with a van Loon hen in their background, produced many top pigeons. This hen, the “Queen” was e perfect match in every way for the “419”. She also was directly put to stock, because her father the “ Dunne” became the #1 ace pigeon of Holland at the short distance, in 1976. The “King” a son from the “419” x “Queen”. became the #1 ace pigeon from all Holland at the middle distance, in the competition WHZB sponsored by the N.P.O. and in the competition from the Vredesduif, a Dutch pigeon publication. Both these competitions, determine their championships with a total different point system. It has never happened before, or since that one pigeon in the same year won both competitions. His brother the “Keizer” is also a champion. This great pigeon won 3x 1st in the Rayon against thousands of pigeons in each and was 3x the fastest from the entire Kuststrook against approx 23.000 pigeons per race.

 

Line B (Kadet Karel Meulemans) View the pigeons of this line

The second top line “B”, is based on the “Kadet” from Karel Meulemans. Many 1st prize winners have been bred from this line by Leo, and by those, that obtained youngbirds from this line. One of our great cracks was the “Hattrick” who like the great “keizer” was 3x the fastest from 22000 pigeons in the Kuststrook Competition. Two times he flew wing to wing with the Keizer ahead of all the other birds in the competition, only to finish 2nd to the Keizer, because the Keizer trapped faster.

 

Line C (Tournier) View the pigeons of this line

Our 3rd line, consist of offspring from Jan Ulet & Koos van Koppen, who’s families were built from the “Old Tourniers”. This is the oldest family in our lofts. Like the other lines we have bred uncountable 1st prize winners from these bloodlines. Other fanciers that obtained pigeons from this line from us had great success. They excelled in privincional race from Etampes and Corbeil (420 km) with headwinds, with these type of conditions, they were serious candidates for a 1st place. The car winner from Michel Koene was bred from a son of the “Vechter 021”, who was a direct son of the foundation pair of the “C” line. Other big winners were bred by Charl de Zwart, Marian & Kees van Koppen and Paul Kouwenhoven who won a car with a young cock, bred from a son of the “Replay” x Daughter “Benjamin” both “C” line. The cock NL'88-1696805 was also a son of foundation pair Line C and became 2 times ace pigeon. After this he was sold to Taiwan.
Youngsters foundation pair Line C, are fro 90% hens. The few cocks we bred from this couple are very special. For example Benjamin, he was the last son of this foundation pair. We raced him only 2 years before we put him at the stock loft.
The Replay is a full sister of Benjamin. As yearling she became, 3rd National Ace hen of the “Nationale Vredesduifcompetitie” and raced 14 prices. In 1995 she did it almost again, she raced 15 prices and became 13th National Ace hen of the “Nationale Vredesduifcompetitie”. She was the sweetest hen we ever had on our loft. She was the only hen who talked with me, now Keizer was to U.S.A. He was also a smart super crack!!!!
Our Benjamin '096 is a direct son of Benjamin. Benjamin '096 raced 4 times 1st price with 1st Libramont against 6.231 birds (his halfsister raced 2nd). At Bourges he raced the 1st Nat. NPO Afd. 12. We decided to put him on the breeding loft. That he is also a successful breeder was shown by the fact that is daughter Shannah won in 2003 the 1st Nat. NPO Chantilly against 11.851 birds.!

 

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