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felix pauwels birds are excellent

Nowt but clean food & clean water for 72 hrs prior to basketing.   Too many birds are offered stuff they do'nt drink properly & this just brings on dehydration that bit faster.

THE RENE VAN DE WEYERS FROM MOL SEEM TO LIKE THE SPRINT RACES

Jimmy wrote
the best sprint birds are bred down from a line of the best sprint winners .
van winneranybreeds     mated up with van managements    

Quoted from AlanWilkins

The best sprint pigeons are the ones that win people keep on goin on about this breed that breed yet 99% of pigeons are just a mixture of others if you like 2 birds and they win pair them together a pure any thing can be brought any where a pigeon with 10-15 1st is rare but i know the one i would go for

Rose wrote
Whatever wins for you im sticking to my heinz 57 Im new to sprinting and after looking at the birds for sale at blackpool i came to the conclusion that every breed going on what was said about them was the best


I agree wotih Jimmy, Alan and Rose!!! 100%  

I like to think that all my birds are delbars (which aren't very good on the sprint or so they say) but I've had winners from 62 mile, I am beginning to think a pigeon is just a pigeon it'l either win or it won't, afterall, the winner is the first bird home whether its a delbar, janssen, van reet or whatever, Its our job to get the pigeon home quicker than anyone else.
you have to keep em fit and healthy, if you haven't got these things, nothing else will do.

vanreet joined forces with jos sootjen in a breeding programme with each others birds for experimental purposes,thats why you will see sootjen names in van reets,luke geerinx got them off sootjen and was the only fancier to beat jos with youngbirds at the time.But a question may well be asking is were did the old tom come from what breed was he as jos said he wasnt a janssen pigeon.

Brasspennings, Vanreets and Van loons are the fast pigeons....... will still test on the other spirinters........  

Has anyone tried Louis Cooreman pigeons????????

Any bird which is handled properly can sprint and a damn good stockman who knows his job and stays away from drugs and who knows his birdscan and does win and win well. Thier is too much salesman ship in sprinting. Its true it can be decided by loft position,wind,and the size of yhe competion thats not to knock the best but simple fact but most people should look in the mirror before they change their birds for the latest fashionable strain. Mr .Lycett Does your mother still keep her old distance birds i hope she does not just keep sprinters.

And grit is removed Tuesday / Wednesday, just extra wieght.

Quoted from blackjack

Mr .Lycett Does your mother still keep her old distance birds i hope she does not just keep sprinters.

I never knew that we'd ever kept distance pigeons?  Sent to 557 miles twice and had 100% on thwe day both times - but Dad was the distance maestro.  His Van Hees were MUSTARD - but a genius wouldn't have got them to win at 60 miles.

I thought a chap up liverpool way did well from Bergerac with of of yours it must have been your farthers.

the best sprint pigeons are ,,, the ones that win the sprint races,,,,regular

They are all good if they are the right pigeons and in the right hands

I wouldnt know a sprint bird from a distance bird if you paid me .But i would assume a sprint bird would be like a sprint runner lots of heavy powerfull muscle where a distance bird  would be more wiry and slimline.But then again when we say sprint what sort of distance are we talking about because 50 mile is still a long way to me.If its just about a bird going flat out at full speed for as long as possible surely the diet has a lot to do with it along with the training?Like i said i would know the difference if you paid me.On a side note i have some direct bert brasspenning's i purchased earlier in the year and also some Boshneid flyers they are both jansen based or so i am led to believe but the braspenning's are a lot more solid if thats the right word they also seem to hug the floor and have shoulders like the bulldog of tom and jerry.Where as the boshneid seem more elegant and regal.Well time will tell.My van reets are the best looking birds in the loft though .

ive bought audrie van der rhees supposed to be good sprint pigeons
but the best ive seen is the rene newlarts

So far best pigeons for me now is Janssens strain...

Quoted from jimmy white

the best sprint birds are bred down from a line of the best sprint winners .
van winneranybreeds   mated up with van managements  

A sprint pigeon never van tyres

For a really good read and honest to goodness truths read

http://www.schaerlaeckens.com
one of the best pigeon pages I have read

best sprint birds in belgium where i live is rene van de weyer i race the stock from rene myself and iam verry happy whit them last year 2 champion long distence whit the young birds 2007.

regards ralph