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As has been the case for years, I do the selection of these pigeons in mid-December, when the youngsters have almost gone through the moult. This suits me fine because I have now found out that physically youngsters still change quite a bit in that period, sometimes to the detriment but usually in a positive way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Also this year I invited fellow club member Henk Spiering. In my eyes, Henk is a pure pigeon connoisseur, not only as a judge, but certainly also when it comes to recognizing a good racing pigeon. Pigeon connoisseur as far as that is possible in our sport, because I always hear real connoisseurs say that they know very little about it \ud83d\ude09 Of course I was also curious if my knowledge has grown somewhat in the last year. I have handled the pigeons a lot in recent months and my feeling was that I have a very good team (in my hand). It is therefore nice to see that the pigeons that are high on my list, could actually all get Henk's approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
All in all, he was very pleased with the health and quality of the pigeons that are there now. My feeling that this year was going to be a difficult selection is therefore true, because in the end only a handful of pigeons were selected that passed the lower limit or of which we were almost certain that they could not handle the one day long distance. I will have to make the other choices based on performance, lineage or feeling. But that in itself is a good sign, because it means that the average quality of the loft is going up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Making the last choices in the coming days and then we can also couple the racing team in a few weeks. Whether I like it or not, the expectations for next season have clearly not been lowered after today. But good Pietertje remains Pietertje<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, we also passed through a number of breeding pigeons, whereby Henk was especially curious about the Koopmannen. He liked a number of them very much, although we disagreed about 1 hen. Time will tell who is right \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The breeders are largely sitting on eggs and it is now reasonably quiet in the loft. Bring on the first boy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As has been the case for years, I do the selection of these pigeons in mid-December, when the youngsters have almost gone through the moult. This suits me fine because I have now found out that physically youngsters still change quite a bit in that period, sometimes to the detriment but usually in a positive way. Also \u2026<\/p>\n