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29/03/2021 - All international PIPA-rankings 2020 have been published by now. With this we conclude the PIPA-rankings for 2020.

26/12/2020 - Meilleurs pigeons sur Limoges, Valence, Montélimar, Tulle, Aurillac, Souillac...

30/08/2020 - PIPA rankings Barcelone en ligne.

06/04/2020 - C'est le moment opportun d'aborder les changements adoptés par un spécialiste des concours de vitesse dans notre rubrique 'le sport colombophile au temps du corona'. Cette fois, c'est Jos Cools de Grobbendonk qui nous a donné le change et qui nous explique ce qu'il a mis en place pour ses 12 veufs.

02/04/2020 - Dans cette nouvelle rubrique 'la colombophilie au temps du corona' PIPA s'est adressé à Bart Geerinckx afin de savoir comment il vivait la situation à Wommelgem et comment il anticipait le report de la préparation de la saison 2020.

09/02/2017 - Pigeons usually have ten primaries. However, exceptions with eleven primaries occur. The way in which this feature is inherited, has been unravelled after fifteen years of research and almost 500 test results. The expression of this characteristic is based on three genes, acting together.

18/12/2015 - As an increasing number of top lofts are trying to predict the level of performance and the value of their breed through genetic testing, the influence of this LDHA gene only becomes more and more apparent.

25/11/2015 - Pigeons, with training, did just as well as humans in a study testing their ability to distinguish cancerous from healthy breast tissue samples.

09/02/2015 - After having tested a lot of parentages by DNA, we thought it would be nice to publish some statistics of how many parentages were tested as correct parents or not. We have included 1241 recent parentage tests and 3617 samples for this evaluation, meaning we can make some very nice conclusions in general for racing pigeon breeding.

19/12/2014 - 2014 will surly go down as one to remember here at Kingsmead School the project has had its most successful year ever both in and out of the classroom, there have been new arrivals to the project both of the feather variety and also with the addition to the team of students that look after the pigeons.

14/11/2014 - Les colombophiles sont sensibles aux innovations et aux nouvelles idées développées au sein de leur sport. C'est un petit peu par hasard que nous sommes tombés sur un produit dont certains amateurs parlaient depuis un petit temps. Ce produit, appelé Wonder Pigeon, a été inventé en Italie et sa formule a été brevetée dans le monde entier.

29/06/2014 - The season has well and truly started at Kingsmead School. The past few months alterations were made to the loft for the start of the 2014 racing season. Some of Kingsmead's students got pigeons of their own and new sponsors became part of the Kingsmead School Project.

16/06/2014 - The new website 'Flying back to nature' was created, to educate schoolchildren of the benefits of nature and to introduce them to the world of pigeons. A second website, 'Secret messages', tells of the impact of racing pigeons during the two World Wars.

06/02/2014 - LDHA is the gene that stands for a lactate dehydrogenase enzyme in racing pigeons. This is an enzyme that is responsible for the recycling of lactate (into pyruvate) in the muscles. Pyruvate can be burned again by muscle fibres.

16/09/2013 - A l'occasion, nous sélectionnerons quelques questions très intéressantes, et leurs réponses, concernant un sujet particulier ( maladies, traitements, etc ) que nous publierons sur notre site. Le sujet du jour est l'ornithose

30/07/2013 - Homing pigeons fly off from an unknown place in unfamiliar territory and still manage to find their way home. Their ability to find their way home has always been fascinating to us humans. Despite intensive research, it is not yet definitively clear where this unusual gift comes from.

27/05/2013 - The Queen of England celebrated her Diamond Jubilee to mark 60 years as the country’s monarch in June 2012. The Midlands National Flying Club organised a race from Fougeres in France to lay tribute to this great occasion. The decision was made by the Club’s committee to not only arrange the race but also to make a film of the event.

10/04/2013 - Before going into further detail about the system I use, I would first like to point out that my system is not necessarily a shining example. Keep in mind that Barcelona is the only important race on my calendar every season.

24/03/2013 - Some years, the weather is especially damp and perverse. These years, a good loft is required more than ever in order to achieve a series of successive results.

17/03/2013 - We think we should not only focus on the press, which reports extensively about plenty of sports, including pigeon racing. We should also provide information using modern media: television and of course the internet, which has loads of possibilities.

06/03/2013 - One of the basic principles of long distance racing is that you need a lot of patience. There are different long distance breeds that will only perform well as a yearling or at the age of two so it is essential that you allow your pigeons time to develop and to gain the necessary experience.