Cees Schroevers, living in Arnemuiden (NL), is a passionate fancier with some 20 racing couples raced in total widowhood. He tries to ensure his successes with a breeding loft containing about 12 couples. Every year 60 youngsters are bred for own use in the races for the youngsters. All in all not very innovating, but extremely successful.
His pigeons are not just as successful as his auction was on PIPA. Less than a year after the auction, Cees races really well in District 7 with his yearlings (2010). This District is located in the regions of Zeeland. But last year was one of the best, top pigeons were born and coached as necessary. A small overview of 2010 with yearlings, followed by 2011 (13x1° prize) with 2 year olds and yearlings.
2010: 1st Keizer General p.v. De Voorwaarts, 1st Youngsters champion Middle Distance District 7, 1st Middle Distance Champion Youngsters District 7 (10-775), 1st Marathon Champion Middle distance Youngsters, 1st Ace bird Marathon Middle Distance youngsters (10-775), 2nd Middle distance Ace bird youngsters District 7 (10-692), 2nd Extreme Middle Distance Champion District 7, 2nd Golden Bird month June + July Sprint, 3rd Extreme Middle Distance Ace bird (09-547), 3rd General champion District 7, 3rd Prov. Middle distance champion youngsters, 3rd Prov. Best Middle distance Ace bird (10-775) after 4 of the 4 races, 3rd Prov. Extreme Middle Distance champion FZN, 4th Prov. Extreme Middle Distance Ace bird (09-547) (1st yl), 6th Prov. Best Middle distance Ace bird (10-775) after 3 of the 4 races, 6th Nat. Ace bird youngsters TBOTB (10-775), 6th Prov. Golden Crack Youngsters (10-3000692)
2011: 1st General Ace bird (10-713) District 7, 1st Prov. General Ace bird (10-713), 2nd General Not nominated District 7, 2nd Extreme Middle Distance champion 2nd Extreme Middle Distance Acebird (10-713), 3rd Middle distance Jong (marathon Zeeland), 3rd Sprint month June (Golden Bird), 3rd Keizer General, 3rd Sprint Champion, 3rd Ace bird Sprint youngsters (11-120), 4th General Ace bird (10-552), 4th Champion (Fondclub South Netherlands, Prov. Zeeland), 4th Prov. Middle distance Not nominated, 7th Prov. Extreme Middle Distance champion total, 9th Prov. Keizer General, 10th Prov. General Ace bird (10-552)
They are great performances with a very young team, what does that promise for the future?. It was Bull’s eye last year, with a 1stNPO from Tours. Yes, the future looks bright for the Schroevers family. Because they know there what racing top (with high prize percentages) is…
Tours 416 p. 1, 2, 5, 6 (6/10) Tours NPO 5482 p. 3, 4, 18, 20, 46 (6/10) Orleans 287 p. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, etc. (15/28) Orleans Dis. 1049 p. 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 16, 22, 25 etc. (16/28) Orleans NPO 6857 p. 6, 7, 12, 13 etc. (15/28) Orleans 158 p. 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 10, 11, 12 etc. (13/22) Orleans Dis. 736 p. 7, 11, 12, 14, 21, 31, 34, 39, (15/22) Orleans NPO 4515 p. 30, 42, 45, 51, 82 etc. (17/22) Arras 897 p. 1, 3, 4 etc. (20/40) Arras Dis. 1784 p. 3, 6, 7 etc. (18/40) Morlinc. Dis. 1750 p. 6, 8, 9 etc. (12/24) Peronne 799 p. 1, 5 etc. (13/24) Peronne 1751 p. 2, 12 etc. (12/24) = 2nd of 11.724 p. Breuil l Vert Dis.1407 p. 7, 18, 21, 22, 24 etc. (14/38) Orleans 541 p. 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 20 etc. (26/21) Orleans 1126 p. 1, 3, 6, 17, 18, 23,etc. (26/16) Orleans 6067 p. 3, 6, 10, 33, 40, 50, 124, etc. (26/17) Peronne 790 p. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 14, 17, etc (30/25) Peronne 1729 p. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 17, 18, 21,etc (30/25) Breuil l V. 319 p. 1, 2, 3, 9, 12, 14, 15, 16,etc (24/14) Breuil l V. 1144 p. 1, 2, 3, 14, 20, 26, 35, etc (24/14) Tours 512 p. 1, 10, 23, 27, 33,etc (10/9) Tours 1199 p. 1, 12, 42, 46, 55, 117, (10/9) Tours 5334 p. 1, 16, 119, 129, 157, 395, (10/9) Pommeroeul 492 p. 1, 2, 3, 6, 9, 29, 33, 3 8, 39, (43/15) Pommeroeul 1709 p. 1, 2, 3, 7, 16, 49, 53, 61, (43/17) Orleans 135 p. 1, 4, 6, (11/5) Orleans 519 p. 1, 9, 12, 44, (11/6) Orleans 3490 p. 3, 37, 46, 151, (11/6) Argenton 229 p. 1, 3, 7, 13, 17, 18, 30, 32, (18/10) Argenton 819 p. 4, 20, 25, 38, 54, 55, (18/10) Argenton 4015 p. 24, 72, 93, 130, 174, 178, 364, (18/10) Peronne 290 p. 1, 3, 5, 8, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, (22/16) Peronne 794 p. 2, 7, 12, 18, 22, 23, 26, 28, (22/17) Sens 437 p. 1, 2, 32, 34, 36, (30/11) Sens 1149 p. 2, 7, 101, 105, 108, (30/10) Sens 6007 p. 4, 10, (30/18) Peronne 346 p. 1, 4, 7, 9, 22, (27/14) Peronne 1325 p. 2, 8, 12, 16, 32, 66, 90, 108 (27/17) Morlincourt 341 p. 1, 13, 16, 22, 23, 25, 27, (20/12) Morlincourt 776 p. 2, 22, 26, 37, 39, 42, 47, (20/13) Morlincourt 280 p. 1, 6, 11, 25, 28, (16/5)
These are very good performances achieved by a formidable fancier. But of course flanked by a beautiful team of racing and breeding pigeons. This consists mainly of pigeons from Koen Minderhoud ( G.Vandenabeele), Van den Eynde-Goovaerts (BE), Jos and Jules Engels (BE) and the force from Ermerveen, C and G Koopman. He further owns the old sort from his father, in other words Gebroeders Janssen/Jos Marien. An exponent of this is ‘Rocky’. This classy bird is already father and grandfather of several top birds and comes out G. Vandenabeele X Gebr. Janssen. Sometimes people (and so also Cees) decide to move a pigeon, which races well, to the breeding loft. It was the same this year. Super pigeons ‘Lady Kim’ and ‘Superboy 775’ had proven their worth in the races and were moved to the breeding loft to ensure just as successful descendants.
The pigeons were coached by Cees to such results with his own mixture from 5 different bags of good food. The pigeons are not given a preventive cure (only acting when necessary). Although the disadvantage can’t be proven, it doesn’t seem to be an advantage (qua location) that his pigeons always have to race over the Western Scheldt. Headwind and ‘mirky’ weather can especially cause problems. Cees noticed that this is especially a nuisance with the youngsters. For one reason or another they daren’t cross the water. Early training is a must here then.
Cees Schroevers from Arnemuiden has worked his way back to the top of the region, and certainly the province Zeeland, in a very short space of time. He won magnificent championships and his pigeons distinguish themselves by racing top from a good number of pigeons. They are very finely built and have soft plumage. Combined with the qualities of Cees as a fancier, he is one of the fanciers we will have to keep an close eye on in 2012.