22/12/2012 - I would like to discuss a topic that I think is essential in our extensive report about the two brothers, which we conclude today: the quality of their breed.
15/12/2012 - Those who had already seen some of the announcements of their public auctions in Brussels were probably surprised about certain passages. Such as the blue coloured cock of ’46 (four years old), has not yet won a single prize but it will be ready for the long distance races by next season etc.
08/12/2012 - What if you were to ask a Belgian fancier more or less familiar with the big champions at national level (in the long distance competition), who he thinks is the most successful and most regular pigeon fancier in the years after the war? In other words: who are the big champions in Belgium and consequently the world champions of this time?
26/01/2011 - We hebben met de eigenaar gesproken van De Stier, De Jonge Stier, De Luik, duiven van het soort dat de naam Stierenras meekreeg. Dat is allemaal lang geleden wuift André Vanbruaene weg.
20/01/2011 - Nous faisons ici référence au mois d’avril 1910, mois durant lequel une des plus grandes célébrités de notre sport favori est née : André Vanbruaene de Lauwe ! Aujourd’hui, nous voila 100 ans plus tard… un siècle s’est donc écoulé… Et l’étoile Vanbruaene brille toujours de mille feux dans le ciel du sport colombophile !
05/01/2011 - Na zovele nationale overwinnngen, na alle successen op de fond, is mijn schoonste herinnering deze van mijn eerste international Barcelona. Datis het mooiste wat ik in mijn schone jaren beleefd heb. Toen sliep ik in geen acht dagen.
26/12/2010 - My pigeons, says Vanbruaene, are given honey with lemon for two days by the homecoming, with each pigeon being generously fed in its box. There is a drinking pot hanging on every box and each box contains a dish of food.
21/12/2010 - The current stock maker is den Elektriek. I have four breeding cocks from him breeding. They are "The Marathon", "The St. Vincent", "The Notaris" and "The Baron".
28/01/2011 - After a few years Uncle Geroom stopped farming. André Vanbruaene helped him start up a furniture business in Kuurne which he would run with the growing boys.
20/12/2010 - The entire history of my success from Barcelona has its origin which begins and ends with the "Zwarte Chateauroux" from Daniel Labeeuw. He won the first national and I won the second with "De Stier".
12/12/2010 - This story, dear readers, begins with the first footsteps of the twentieth century in the region of Heusden, near Ghent. Two West-Flemish farm children from Rekkem and Lauwe have established themselves near the valley of the Schelde.
14/12/2010 - The story began on the homestead by the youngest brother from father. There was a castle next to it in Rekkem where André and his comrades used to catch a wild rabbit and sell it for extra pocket money.
