New auction: F&J Vandenheede

For the past several years, Pieter and Louw have been working to develop an unmatched team of marathon birds. Today, they are aiming for the Barcelona classic, in an effort to put the icing on the cake, having already won two international races earlier on.

In this video you get to know the top pigeons of Kurt & Raf Platteeuw such as the national ace pigeons and national winners that will be auctioned together with all the other old pigeons 2017 and older from Monday 16 March to Sunday 29 March 2020.

This ranking takes into account your best three results in all the races with a distance of over 750km that count for the international ZLU racing competition. The pigeons in this ranking have to be born in 2018 or earlier. The ranking will be based only on the prizes that were won in the national results of the ZLU.

Christiane and Arsène from Westkerke are a very likeable couple, and their pigeon family happens to be one of Belgium's top performing breeds. Their pigeons have been very successful in recent years, and 2019 was no different.

The following auctions closed on Sunday 16th of February: Stef Bals (NL), Vermeerbergen-Wilms (BE), Martial Maindrelle (FR), T&J Elzinga (NL), Gino Clicque (BE), Dehon-Demonseau (BE), Team Noël-Willockx (BE), Candotti-Trunet (BE), Jos Thoné (BE) & Rik Cools (BE).

On Monday 17th of February these auctions will start: Youri Deblanc (BE), Kai Er (CN), A.T. Breeding Loft by Hadrien Marsille (BE), Team Van Oss (NL), PIPA Elite Center (BE) & Extreme Long Distance Auction.

Jelle Roziers is known worldwide for the great results he achieves with his young pigeons. In this video he explains his system that is based on 'common sense' and 'keep it simple' as Jelle summarizes it.

This ranking takes into account your best two results in all the races with a distance of over 750 km that count for the international ZLU racing competition. The pigeons in this ranking have to be born in 2018 or earlier. The ranking will be based only on the prizes that were won in the national results of the ZLU.

And he was once again world class in 2019, winning 3 provincial first prizes in the extreme long distance, a title of best extreme long distance pigeon of Belgium across 3 international races, and a title of Belgium's best pigeon in Perpignan across two seasons, 2018 & 2019. The Meirlaen family is renowned for their many victories, ace pigeon titles and championship titles, often at national and even international level!

Established in a real pigeon area from France, the Team CFTT truly holds the upper hand in a combine bringing together several thousands of pigeons each week. In 2017 and in 2019, they were crowned as 1st General Champion CALC, one of the biggest combine from France.

Mark Gilbert tells how difficult it is for pigeons in the UK to ever win Barcelona International. However it's a goal for Mark to try to do the impossible...

In 2012 Mike went to Sun City for the first time for the South Africa Million Dollar Final race. After seeing the conditions of the weather, hot & humid, along with dominating head winds, he knew it took a different type of racing pigeon to win this race.

The 'Flying Doc' from Normandy was in the spotlights last year once again thanks to a successful racing season, in the same level than the previous years. It was worth to pay a visit to one of the most consistent French lofts of the last few years.

Eddy Noël and Ivan Willockx were already coöperating when they decided to start racing together in 2016. Each year the results continued to improve with a remarkable 2019 season as the provisional highlight.