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“Den André”: 09-3095611 from De Ruyck - Dewitte - Wielsbeke (BE) wins 1st provincial Argenton yearlings in West-Flanders and 2nd national against 19757 p..

In the “national” Argenton they basketted 3250 yearlings in West-Flanders for the provincial doubles, wherefrom “den André” from Marc and Monique De Ruyck-Dewitte was fastest of the platoon with 1198,23 m/min over 499 km.

Marc has been a pigeon fancier since ’86 and one year later (1987) he was provincial champion by the starters in the sprint.
After a handful of seasons racing sprint and small middle distance, Marc took a step up and chose more the grand middle distance up to and including Limoges. His colony is built up with pigeons from Noël Claerhout and Vital Dheedene , both from Wielsbeke, also from Etienne Verkinderen from Meulebeke and from Chris Debacker from Beveren-Leie, all fanciers who can race very well and for the majority have built up their stock of pigeons with the sort from Gaby Vandenabeele.
With 20 widowers and 40 youngsters, Marc and Monique perform very well!!  The old birds are raced in widowhood, youngsters on the other hand are only trained well to give them the necessary experience.
Lineage and performances of “den André”: 3095611-09!

It is a summer youngster which was only trained in his birth year.
In 2010 he won:

 12th Ablis van  100p (1/5/10)
10th Ablis       148p (22/5/10)
41st Tours       481p and 211st prov against 3501p (5/6/10)
1st Argenton     650p 1st
   provincial 3250p and 2nd national against 19757 pigeons.

Father = 07-3165229 , a cock from André Duyck , obtained via his son Patrick and he in turn comes out the “008” x “hen Ant. Van Landuyt – Vinkt.
Mother = 08-3034020, comes out a crossing sort Noël Claerhout x Chris Debacker.
In this Argenton race De Ruyck – Dewitte won the following classifications in the Long distance club in Rekkem: 1 -46 -101 -164 -178 -203 -212 from 12 nominated pigeons against 650 opponents.

A few figures from this loft obtained in ’09 and ’10 :

16/5/09 Chateauroux: the 2nd prize in the Long distance club against 560p and 14th provincial against 4296p
4/7/09: Limoges:     in the Long distance club  28th against 370p and prov 107th against 2170p
25/7/09 Bourges:     in the Long distance club  4th against 148p and prov  12nd against 595p
11/7/09 Limoges :    in the Long distance club  17th against 677p and prov  47th against 3326 p
19/6/10 Limoges Long distance club 12th against 295p and prov  51st against 2300p
22/5/10 Bourges:     in the Long distance club 16th against 376p and prov  40th against 2170p
15/5/10 Chateauroux :in the Long distance club  44th against 604p and prov  211st against 4093p

That was out introduction to the provincial winner W-Fl. from Argenton for yearlings.
Our warmest congratulations.