Articles 2022 (English)
My own loft (04-10-22)
Michel B has become interested in the flight routes that pigeons travel from the release point to the home loft. If you're a bit handy, no big problem anymore with those GPS rings that are currently available.
Laughed too little (29-09-22)
How ashamed I was at the store that sells pigeon food. Not because of the 'pigeon clogs' that were not cleaned up, but because of few fellow sportsmen.
More mistakes (24-09-22)
Fanciers who are successful are sometimes suspected of knowing a lot about pigeons, which also applies to people who write about pigeons
Mr D.Ping
Anyone who thought that after the 'doping regulations' would end with the young pigeon specialists, was therefore disappointed.
Heard and read (09-09-22)
Because of the theft of all my racers I didn't feel like pigeons anymore, let alone read about them. But a lot has now been made up
Other thought (28-08-22)
Getting older almost only has its drawbacks. I notice that as well as others of my generation. But not everything is negative.
Unbelievable results every year (28-08-22)
Sensational 2019.
I am updating my results. They are just unbelievable. Other years will follow soon. This is not a a summary of the best results but ALL till half July. In magazine De Duif it says nobody in Belgium did better.
Pigeons with a story (25-07-22)
I remember as if it were yesterday when I first stood on the doorstep of Cor Leytens. I had with me a bag of broken corncobs, given to me by a Belgian, who used them as a ‘bottom cover’
To each own (25-07-22)
Three times I went to a pigeon day in Germany. Not so much because of the pigeons, but to get out. No telephone, no emails, no newspaper: a relief. But Germany is different. .
Fooled and be fooled (05-05-22)
When money is at stake, as has been the case in pigeon sport for a quarter of a century by selling, people become more and more resourceful.
New Hope (07-04-22)
I have been racing pigeons for many years. And let it be a traditional sport, I have unlearned, learned, discovered and bumped my head
Heard and read (04-04-22)
When you get older, 'regularly win prizes' and write articles, you soon become suspicious of knowing something about pigeons
Lots of contradictions (31-03-22)
Whether I am serious when I make fun of names for pigeon food and question terms such as 'moulting', 'purification', 'breeding' and so on
eggs and stuff (19-03-22)
Without an egg no young pigeon and without a young pigeon no future champion.
David and... (16-03-22)
In my teenage years I had three passions: Football, pigeons and 'wanting to be the best'. I initially thought I would make it as a football player because of being the best in various school teams, but that illusion was short-lived.