デ・クラーク・フェルファーレン - リルラール（ベルギー）、2011年ナショナルグランドディスタンスエースピジョン1位。
By De Clercq - Vervaeren the pigeon sport is a family affair.
The man of the house, Johan De Clercq, works full-time in the centre of Brussels, by the Belgium Treasury.
Before and after his busy day job he takes care of and trains the old birds. He receives as much help as possible from his sympathetic wife Peggy (Vervaeren), who takes care of the youngsters. In addition, daughter Annelies also carries the love for the pigeon sport in her heart. She helps with the administration and the homecoming. Annelies is in her last year at school. The next academic year she will stand in front of the class as teacher.
The system
Last season was started with 55 old cocks in classic widowhood, 30 yearling cocks and 30 yearling hens in total widowhood and 22 old hens for the overnight races. Last year they started with total widowhood by the yearlings. For this purpose an extra garden loft was placed in the garden. The intention was to prepare a team of hens for the queen’s race from Barcelona (see further). The yearling cocks had to prove themselves last year from Limoges and Tulle (a few raced Bordeaux – Libourne). The yearling hens were given their exams from Soustons last year. Once 2 years old the cocks are raced further in classic widowhood in the extreme middle distance and overnight long distance.
All the time and energy during the season is orientated towards the long distance races. The youngsters are trained up to Pithiviers. If the weather and the situation with the plumage allows, then the grand middle distance can also be on the programme.
The old widowers race the entire long distance calendar, yet limited to 3 or 4 long distance races per pigeon. Preference is given to the races from the Belgische Verstandhouding and Cureghem Center , due to there being more birds, a nicer game and better care! It is not until the first long distance race that the cocks are shown their hens before being basketted. By the homecoming they stay together until late in the evening. By a tough race it can be until Sunday morning. The cocks which stay at home are also shown their hen.
Stock building
The old stock is mainly built up with pigeons from Marc and Gerard Santens (Oudenaarde), supplemented with pigeons from Marcel Michiels (Messelbroek), Yvan Eeckhout (Ronse), Maurice van de Velde (Scherpenheuvel) and Roger Florizoone (Nieuwpoort). Three years ago an intense collaboration was begun with Joost De Smeyter (De Smeyter - Restiaen, Melden). This collaboration brought the results in the grand distance to an enormously high level. Johan originates from the region of Oudenaarde, hence the large amount of pigeon blood out the area in these pigeons.
Over the last few years Joost has achieved enormous performances in the long distance and grand distance. Many fanciers have been very successful with these athletes from Melden. This collaboration has also ensured impressive results in Rillaar.
Care
At around Christmas the breeders and a section of the widowers are coupled. The other widowers intermittently, coupled per loft, so that the eggs from the best pigeons can be placed under other birds. The widowers are not subsequently coupled before the season. Darkening is used in April in the morning until about 8a.m. to delay the form until the beginning of June. Every year the pigeons receive the compulsory paramixoprick. Prior to the season they are also given a paratyphoid cure.
If there is a problem or in case of doubt, Johan seeks the advice of Raf Herbots. During the season and in particular by the moulting, the pigeons are given plenty of natural products so as garlic powder, brewer’s yeast, optimix, Zell Oxygen and Elderberry Syrup.
The 2011 season
In the first race the cocks by De Clercq-Vervaeren proved that they were ready. The tone was set for the rest of the season with prize percentages for which you would receive the highest awards at school. In addition to a dizzy prize percentage there was a tsunami of top prizes from June to the beginning of August. To illustrate, the worst race with the widowers in the national extreme middle distance this year was the rained out race from Tulle with 3 prizes per ten from the 11 basketted (8 pr/11).
In races in real pigeon weather Johan, Peggy and Annelies are always in their element, preferably when the fastest pigeons have to race for more than 10 hours. Yet the weather gods were not very favourable to us this season.. however, the wind could blow from where it wanted this year, the skies could be blue, grey or black, the results by De Clercq-Vervaeren were always impressive.
In addition to the “classic” game with the old widowers, the collaboration with Joost De Smeyter means they have taken a new path with the aim being, just like Joost, achieving top results in the international races and from Barcelona in particular. Three years ago they started racing with the hens. In 2009 a first team of yearling hens raced from Soustons with satisfactory results. From these, eleven were raced from Barcelona 2010. Basketted with a small youngster, 2 top 100 notations were achieved (53rd and 69th nat). A second team of yearling hens (from 2009) had to take their end exams from Soustons. The prof in charge could hand out a few ‘cum laude’. A total of 32 hens were basketted. They started with the 79th nat, 23 prizes were achieved, wherefrom no less than 17 per ten (national).
As so many hens had proven themselves they had to find a way to get this team ready for their big assignment. There was not enough room to allow all the hens to race with a small youngster. That’s why the team of 22 hens was divided up into three. One group was to be basketted with a small youngster, another group was to be basketted in classic widowhood and a third group was mutually coupled (lesbian). As preparation the hens raced from April a race every week. A group of 11 hens raced Pau as preparation. The result from Pau was modest (4 prizes regional), but the necessary preparatory kilometres had been raced. Another group raced a grand middle distance as preparation. It was now a question of waiting for the big day at the beginning of July.
Barcelona was liberated with favourable weather conditions, the conditions in the south of France were favourable, which predicted a smooth race. Early on Saturday morning, just before 7a.m. there were 3 hens home. At 6h08 the 13th Nat was clocked with a hen in classic widowhood. Half an hour later a (lesbian) hen with eggs which had a nest with a yearling hen followed. Just under eight minutes later a third hen arrived, which had been basketted with a small youngster. A fourth hen also achieved the top 100 national at 7h15.
National the result was as follows: (12170 pigeons) 13, 37, 47, 93, 157, 493, 644, 1071, 1190, 2424.(10 prizes from the 21 basketted wherefrom 9 prize per 10).
This team was then prepared for Perpignan. As Johan already had a few top prizes he secretly hoped that one of his hens would repeat her performance in this closing classic. The hope and ambition rose when the De Clercq-Vervaeren household noticed how hard the hens trained from home. With a day’s postponement, Perpignan was liberated. The liberation was late, as a result of which only a few pigeons returned home on the day of liberation in Belgium. As evening approached it was very cloudy and there were many storms during the night. On Monday morning Johan was waiting early. He was taking care of the pigeons before sunrise. At a quarter past 6 Peggy came to inform him that the electronic clock had sounded. With the heartbeat of a cyclist climbing the Koppenberg, Johan ran to the rear loft to take a look. There was a hen from Perpignan who had also reached her loft by daybreak. This same hen also raced the 37th nat from Barcelona. From Perpignan she now raced the 3rd prov and the 13th national.
Half an hour later a second hen followed and at 7h22 the 1st nominated followed (a cock) who raced for the championships. They quietly hoped for a top notation by the national Ace bird grand distance, and when the first national prognosis came in they had been highly noted for the highest podium… it was a matter of waiting nervously! In the end the bottles could be uncorked and the champagne flowed freely! The national title of Ace bird grand distance is the icing on the cake to a very strong season.
Peggy, national Ace bird Grand Distance 2011.
Johan named his hen after his sympathetic wife ‘Peggy’. Peggy is the result of a successful collaboration between Joost and Johan. As a yearling Peggy had already raced the 346th nat (8443 p) from Soustons.
The father, Le Gitan, is a De Smeyter Restiaen.
Le Gitanne is a full brother of the 3° Nat & 5° Int. Tarbes 2011… and half-brother of the 6° Intnat St.Vincent and the 9° Nat Bordeaux. He comes self out the ‘Narbonne 1’ 678/98 ) which self won 1° Peruwelz, 1° Narbonne YL, 2 x 1° Perpignan and 34° Nat Pau & Perpignan, and (grand)father is from the 1° Nat Ace bird Grand distance KBDB ’11, 2° Nat Ace bird Grand distance ’06)x ‘Inteelt Perpignan King 517/04, a 100% Kurvers-De Weerd (out the extreme long distance crack ‘Perpignan King 845/96’ x ‘Sister Perpignan King 935/97’). The ‘Perpignan King’ was the best ‘International Long Distance Bird’ and his honours list includes 3° Nat Perpignan ’02, 21° Nat Pau ’02, 30° Nat Dax ’02, 34° Nat Perpignan, 78° Nat Perpignan!
The mother of Peggy is Miss Perpignan. She raced self 1° Prov, 25° Nat and 30° Intnat Perpignan 2003. She is a daughter of ‘Grandson Wittenbuik 396/97’ Freddy Vandenbrande (out a son 2° Nat Tulle: the ‘Geschelpte Tulle 113/94’ x ‘Wittenbuik Prinses 179/94’… direct daughter of the legend ‘Wittenbuik’ by Gaby Vandenabeele) x ’t Geschelpt Wittikje 718/00’, origin Marc & Gerard Santens (and daughter of the ‘Supercrack 148/91’ x ‘Geschelpt Wittikje 658/96’). The ‘Supercrack 148/91’ was 4° Ace bird Middle disttance KBDB East-Fl. ’93 and won a.o. 1° Dourdan 342 p., 2° Vierzon 513 p., 4° Chateauroux 721 p., 3° Nat Argenton ’93, 72° Nat Narbonne ’93, 77° Nat Argenton ’92.
This year a brother raced the 38e nat. Zone C (5667p) from Souillac and a 95e prov from Limoges (1625p) and a half-brother this year raced the 14th zone C from Montauban and the 42e prov. Limoges.
Trimars Ace, 6enational Ace bird Long Distance 2011
Their three year old cock, Trimards Ace, started the season with the 4th prov. Limoges, followed by a 133rd Zone C from Montauban, and a 13th national Souillac. He went to Tulle in the hope of sharpening his coefficient, despite the inconceivable liberation he still won 110th national in the rained out Tulle, which in the end gave him the title of 6th Nat. Ace bird Long Distance in Belgium.
The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree and this is certainly applicable here.
The father of the Trimars Ace is the Trimard 2115490/2000 and during the period 2002 - 2006 he was one of the toppers in the racing loft in Rillaar with a whole series of top prizes from Bourges to Perpignan.
The Trimard is a 100% Santens pigeon.
The mother of the Trimars ace is once again a De Smeyter Restiaen (4335430/07).
She is the daughter of Georgette (on mother’s side), Georgette is the sister of the 2nd nat Ace bird grand distance KBDB (By Onijn, Ronse).
On father’s side she is the daughter of Pou Pou, son of the Poulidor Perpignan (6th Int Perpignan).
Annelies, Best yearling Belgium international races 2011.
Annelies is also a granddaughter of the “Joost” via the “Perpau”.
Her mother, “Kransje” is a de Clercq Vervaeren. Kransje is a daughter out the “Jos” (Limbourg * Fauche Frères) coupled with the nest sister of the mother of the “Trimard”.
They can look forward to the 2012 season. Next year the majority of the toppers will after all be 3 or 4 years old and will be supplemented by yearling cocks who displayed their qualities last season.
The yearling hens were raced via total widowhood and their exam results were to be praised. Due to the classic from Soustons falling away, they chose to test them from Bordeaux-Agen and from Narbonne. Bordeaux was a tough race (warm and head wind) where only a few pigeons achieved 1000 mm. 12 prizes were won (int) wherefrom 6 per ten from 22 yerling hens. Then the remainder which still had a good plumage were raced from Narbonne. This was also a good result with 6 prizes, wherefrom 4 per forty in the international result. Two hens raced twice in the top of the international result.
The 2181655/10 raced the 51st INT from Bordeaux and the 130th INT from Narbonne, with this she is even the best Belgian yearling in the international races. This hen was then named after daughter Annelies. Her loft companion 2204487/10 raced resp. the 154th INT and the 148th INT and with this is the sixth Belgian yearling hen in this classification.
The decision to build up a team of hens with teh reinforcements from Melden has delivered very sweet fruit in the shortest space of time. The collaboration Clercq-Vervaeren and Joost De Smeyter is a more than successful marriage at all levels!
The following titles and places of honour were achieved this year:
1st National Ace bird Grand distance 6th National Ace bird Long Distance o.b. 1st Champion Long Distance o.b. Demer and Dijle 3rd Champion Long Distance Yearlings Demer and Dijle 1st Champion Long Distance o.b. Brabant Union 3rd Champion Long Distance Yearlings Brabant Union 1st Ace bird Super Long Distance Brabant Union Oscar for the Long Distance Brabant Union (most prizes PP10 with the 1st nominated) 2nd General Championship Belgische verstandhouding 1st Championship Long Distance “de duivenkrant” 2nd Ace bird Long Distance ‘de duivenkrant’ Vice provincial champion Long Distance province Flemish Brabant Provincial Ace bird grand distance 1st and 6th Ace hen international races yearling hens Belgium (PIPA) 4th international Ace bird International races (over everything) (PIPA) 1st international Ace bird International races (Belgium) (PIPA) 3rd Ace bird Belgium 4 national Long Distance races (PIPA) 3rd Ace hen international races (over everything) (PIPA) 1st Ace hen international races (Belgium) (PIPA)
For an overview of the loft performance 2011: click here
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Johan & Peggy,
Dikke en welgemeende proficiat met de resultaten van het afglopen seizoen (en ook met die van de jaren daarvoor).
groeten,
Johan Van Calster (Rillaar)
heb eens aandachtig de pedigree bekeken van de asduif grote fond en denk dat er een naam vergeten is op die pedigree .
heb nl. van die soort ook duiven en heb er pedigrees van en bij staat er daar toch een naam die ik niet terug vind hier op deze pedigree.
ga naar de gitan 07/4335449 en ga dan naar de overgrootvader daar staat de kleine favoriet ringnummer 90/4503699 van de smeyter-restiaen
op mijn pedigrees zuiver van bij de originele kweker van de favoriet 44089561/85 met de 478/84 ring 4223478/84 zuiver VAN OVERWAELE JOHAN ronse en dat zijn de ouders van de kleine favoriet 4503699/90
ik heb de bewijzen ze liggen hier voor mij .vele grt marc van thuyne
fantastic results Johan and Peggy i bet you can't wait for the 2012 season to start with the quality you've got in your team of pigeons.