De Weerdt Strain

[peter pandy]

It was my experience with De Weerdt youngsters that they were very slow maturing to the point where many were lost training and racing.

As Bernard De Weerdt was a regular visitor I asked if this was the case to which Bernard replied that all his early bred young birds were put on the darkness system and raced. With the exception of winners all were sold at the end of the season as a new team was bred in June for future racing as yearlings. To all who have the De Weerdt strain is to know they are late developers.

[Wiley]

Peter, in my experience all distance pigeons are late developers, and wont show much if anything until 2 years old

[ALF]

PLENTY OF DISTANCE PIGEONS ARE LATE DEVELOPERS RYAN MATE BUT LOOK AT THE NATIONAL RESULTS THERE IS ALWAYS A FEW YEARLINGS ON THEM ASWELL ESPECIALLY SNFC YPRES RACE AT APPROX 450 MLS INTO CENTRAL SCOTLAND

[Wiley]

Alf me ole mate im not disputing that, ive had yearlings score at 500 miles in the LNRC. However the pigeons that done it wasnt distance based strains. When i had the Fear Brothers pigeons which were out and out distance they would only start to shine at two year old, same with a few distance strains ive tried jan aardens ect.

[novo10]

Alf me ole mate im not disputing that, ive had yearlings score at 500 miles in the LNRC. However the pigeons that done it wasnt distance based strains. When i had the Fear Brothers pigeons which were out and out distance they would only start to shine at two year old, same with a few distance strains ive tried jan aardens ect.

ours score as yearlings 2yrs 3yrs 4yrs and 5yrs and they are de weerdts

[fieldwalker]

maybe systems and/or how well they are trained and raced as ybs then

[Diamond dave]

I kept the Ko-Nipius pigeons for around 6 six years and couldn't keep any of them beyond the yearling stage. Admittedly, I was learning as well and I would put a lot of the losses down to my inexperience but it did become very noticable and I eventually ousted them.

These were bred from proven distance stock, so I guess the same principle could be applied - Perhaps I asked too much of them as YBs and yearlings.

 

D.D.