lanarkshire lad

I would say you are about right there.

Its a Draw right to the last decimal.

To put the Record straight the Blue Vanoppen was bred by C Vanoppen and is a Full Brother to 1st International Barcelona,it is bred from Van der Wegan & Kuyper bloodlines.

Mate the Blue Vanoppen himself comes from the lines of Kuyper and Van der Wegan blood. Van der Veldens Top breeder is a son of the Blue Vanoppen.

I am sure Danny vagenende International Barcelona winner is 50% Vanoppen blood > The list is endless look at van der Veldens results with the Vanoppen blood OUTSTANDING.

That result is to the one loft with this blood and flying 660miles from Barcelona.

what about 5th 6th 8th 24th 35th 63rd 86th 112th for a start Belgian nat Barcelona 12,641 birds 2010 a real hard one,all the pigeons carrying this vanoppen blood.

Thats a true statement.

It disnae come close mate.

This Blue Vanoppen of Wijnands of Masstricht must be the best breeder of long distance winners the pigeon world has ever seen, its responsible for countless top winners at international level all over europe. Ive got a couple of pairs to try out because i liked the name BLUE vanoppen has anybody been winning with these pigeons in this country?

Good post plenty truths in there.

It disnae matter how many you keep or send to 500mile its only the quality ones that will do the job.

Dont think you need to stay local theres no hard and fast rules in the pigeon game thats for sure.The theories will be hit on the head when the racing starts and by the way i see that the vandenabeeles for example which are a belgian middle distance family can be brought into this country and win just about everything straight away up to 500miles no need for this acclimatisation nonesense with they pigeons or the camphius jannsens or vanhee or lefebre dhaenen or verheye they all won straight away. so why cant the belgian long distance strains win at 500mile plus to say that you need to bring local pigeons in disnae make sense to me theres good and bad pigeons everywhere it getting the good ones thats the hard part. JMO

Good stuff cheers.

I'll need to find out more about it like whens the best time to send your entries?

Very interesting,i really must try and get some entries next time.

Any decision made as to where the van will be training from this year?

Great news i hope theres plenty more like you.(us)

Dirty East wind pushing them west,they would be on a route they were unfamiliar with look at the great race the midland fed members had that day because there doos were familiar with that route.

How far did Midlothian go with ybs?

I am trying and i hope you are also.

We know they are everywhere but not in the same numbers as in Cumbria thats a FACT.

Lanarkshire raced fae kelso for years and i canny remember one bad race fae there ybs or old birds.

I read that that Cumbria has the Largest Peregrine population in the WORLD no just western Europe.

Yes ive used it i think it contains furazolidon.I wont use it again another money making racket IMO better to vaccinate for paratuphus when coming out the nest JMO