Chris Little Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Our best Van Reet cock was bred from a Dean Pallat x Dave Allen pairing, he simply never put a foot wrong, winning many top prizes including 11th Open SNFC Vire 450 miles on a hard day. When he was paired to a hen bred by Keith Turner ( grand daughter Red Danial) they bred our best ever inland racing hen, winner of prizes galore including 1st Fed 220 miles and 5 Scottish national diplomas to her credit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny11 Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Just going back slightly I have to agree with Ben over the systematic treatment with drugs. I also believe this has contributed to the downfall in the constitution of the British racing Pigeon. If you were to do a blanket antibiotic resistance screen now on our birds you would not believe it and this coincided with the continental introductions or is this coincidence? and if so why do we treat so much now compared to days gone by? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny11 Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Will many be attending the Jimmy Dickens sale or has it already been? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paulo Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 Strains a just a mans name there two type of pigeons good ones and bad ones. I've tried Van Reets and they've done nowt for me but no doubt theres some good ones out there somewhere or my management might not suit them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry mccarthy Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 a few of my vanreets a mixture of all the top names Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chichichi Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 very nice tel.. same type as mine,, but ours only go to 350 miles ,, they struggle after that.. hessian pallet - old lines - van reet double g/son of red daniel pallet pallet we have found these van reets to be our best lines over the last 5 years.. we have 7 fed winners at stock and all their parents aswell.. there is no name that is better than any other,, there are good mardons and bad mardons,, all the families have good and bad in them.. ant Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john steed Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 nice birds their condition is a credit to you Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry mccarthy Posted September 24, 2008 Report Share Posted September 24, 2008 yes ant your right good and bad in all .mardons were very big pigeons at one time then all of a sudden went to very small to much inbreeding i think like all the mealys from toey were did they come from all of a sudden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paulo Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 Like that last cheq and white one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phillips Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 ive just bought a pr of van reets myselt for stock their bert hession lines bred from the best bloodlines ect TOY BOY 15ST PRIZES DIKKIE PRINS 22 1ST PRIZES WITPEN DANIEL 17ST PRIZES BANGE NATIONAL 1ST NATIONAL 19000 BIRDS DONKER BLUE KAMPIEON 11 1ST PRIZES DE BLISKSEN 18 ST PRIZES lets just hope they breed me some winners cheers jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terry mccarthy Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 1 of my best racers going to stock this year hession x mardon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Gill Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 It has to be Hession for me but then I would say that as mine are 90% Hession with a small imput from Mardon,well one cock Apollo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pigeonbaz Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 is it right marden sold up a few years back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retired Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 is it right marden sold up a few years back Yeah at Blackpool made mega ££££ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Gill Posted October 7, 2008 Report Share Posted October 7, 2008 Daughter of Shieldys Cock..Dam , GDam and GG Dam of winners G Son of Majestic and Princess Son of Shieldys Cock Son of Ian Staffords 69 who won 3x1st Fed G Son of Majestic and Princess and a daughter of Shieldys Cock Staffy..son of Ian Staffords Golden Pair and hes Sire,GSire and GGSire of winners Young Eddie and Pied Princess Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeDarren Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 My mate, John Russell who hails from Moorends in Doncaster was over in Belgium in 1987 with his Dad and the legendary Alwyn Paddey, who was looking for distance pigeons at the time and they ended up not far from Mol. Upon attempting to ask a local about who had the best pigeons in the area, the man gave them directions to Staf Van Reet's residence, saying, 'the English men go there already' in his broken Anglo/Flemish dialect. John and his Dad were impressed enough and duly purchased a number of these what turned out to be absolutely fantastic racing machines and I think it was a year or two later after having made a few waves and ripples with the racing success of these first van Reets, John was attending a big pigeon do in the Derbyshire region, and he was confronted by a furious Dave Allen (who was literally spitting feathers by all accounts) who demanded to know who had put John in touch with the Master of Mol. The rest as they say, is history. John's pigeons have to be seen to be believed, a true family of velvet dark'uns, blues and pencils (genopte's) with the odd pied and they swept the board in the South Yorkshire region for many years, for both himself and beyond, as far afield as Ireland, for the very fortunate friends who had them from him. Indeed, in 2008, over 20 years since that chance happening, John's family of Van Reets are still topping the Federation for others, in the fiercely competitive city of Liverpool against the modern day super strains of Walter Dockx, Kees Bosua, Lindelauf, Roland Janssen, Adrie Van De Rhee and Willie Jacobs to name but a few. To my way of thinking, the Van Reets are A1 navigators, with an impeccable constitution and the innate ability of being able to find the quickest route possible from A to Z. Work them hard and they will most definitely reward you. The North West Combine's longest race of the programme, Niort, which is roughly 500 long and arduous miles into Liverpool, was also conquered by a (Mardon) Staf Van Reet for a Mr Harry Apps a few years back and this against the best of the North West's distance men and their highly-priced, tough as iron, Smaragd and Vlekje 'International' offspring. Be it Hession, Allen, Russell, Pallatt, Mardon, or Louella - long live the Staf Van Reet racing pigeon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
barnsley_pigeonman Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 love the pencile pieds mate and the red and mealy ones do you charge alot for young birds has i dont work any more thanxs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Navigator Posted November 12, 2008 Report Share Posted November 12, 2008 They always look fantastic pigeons. I struggled with them to be honest, maybe wrong lines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeDarren Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 I just found the following excerpt on the Herbot's website: http://www.herbots.be/racing_herbots/news/content.asp?id=49 For those interested, it may make for good reading during these dark winter months? The fastest pigeons of the world. That’s what Piet de Weerd told about the pigeons of Staf Van Reet from Mol. And indeed Staf owned a super breeding couple in the seventies. The cock was the Genopte Witpen of ’68 and the hen was a Janssen-hen (out of the line Halve Fabry), namely the Blue Breeding-hen of ’69. This couple gave among others the famous Daniël (named after a good bycicle-racer Daniël Willems). The Daniël, 6635973/76), was good for 57 first prizes on the speed races and this with rain, sunshine, wind or no wind, in fact in all kind of weather. His brother, the Prince, 6664391/72, was almost as good his brother. He flew 32 first prizes and when he couldn’t win he always won the second prize after his brother the Daniël. Another brother, the Dikke Prince (6710998/74) won 28 first prizes and the Lichte Prince won 29 victories. Grondelaers is always there when a kind of miracle happens. So an evening in 1978 he went, together with his friend Marcel Cretskens, to Mol with a lot of money in his pockets. At that time Staf didn’t have any light on his loft and so they brought each star into the house one by one, to take a good look at the birds. Almost immediately Jan preferred the Prince but this one wasn’t for sale so Jan had to play some tricks too. "How much would this bird be worth" wondered Jan. Staf answered that he thought that this one would be worth 30.000 Bfr. but he didn’t know that Jan was full of tricks. Later in the evening a friend a Staf came by and Jan said: "Listen now, Staf mentioned a price for the Prince but he doesn’t want to sell hem to me". The friend, who didn’t knew about the previous event and played along with Jan and he answered: "Come on Staf, a word is a word. I thought I knew you…". After some more discussion, Jan replied that he would give him the double price but then you have to give me a his sister along". So… the Prince moved to Opglabbeek where he became father of the Stuka’s. The Stuka II flew 5 x first in good company. The Stuka I, 5185502/79, won 13 times and afterwards he became an excellent breeder. Also the hen, which is a nest-sister of the Prince, is a miracle on the breeding loft. She gave among others the 5023706/82 that won the 1st provincial from La Souterraine. Later on Jan also got the Daniël in his breeding section to breed together with the new owner, namely the Verheye from Mol. Out of this together-breed, Daniël x daughter Orléans II, the famous Raket was born with Jan, with ringnumber 5172250/86. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OLDYELLOW Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 Great posts DeDarren Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Smith Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 We got our first Van Reets in 1987 from Dave Allen,we then got birds from Merlin Hudson Ian Axe Tony Mardon all before 1990. We still have the same bloodlines to this day, these have won from Saintes 540 miles Niort 500 miles and Nantes 430 pure, crossed they have excelled from 60 miles to 610 miles. I think the early Van Reets where by far the best, if I remember right when Louella first got them they sold a round of late breds of young birds bred the same year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mr mrs arnold sons Posted November 14, 2008 Report Share Posted November 14, 2008 i had some van reets from dean pallatt. and you get what you pay four they are not in my lofts now but like i say you got to know the game to play the game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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