At Daniels results speak (28-06-24)
. The hens of men like Roger Buvens, Gaston v d Wouwer, Roger Engelen and certainly Willy Daniels often stunned the nation.
Even against the cream of the nation, even in the long distance and even with headwinds. Perhaps the most talked-about is Willy Daniels, also because he does it with a limited number of pigeons: 16 hens in total.
ISN'T?
Countless times you could read in 'the pigeon press' that even champions warned against mating hens. That would be deadly.
Earlier I mentioned that Gust Christiaens and Roger Buvens thought otherwise. They liked nothing more than hens that were paired with each other. I myself won two 1st prizes National Orleans (zone) with hens that were mated.
Superman Willy Daniels is another one. He goes even further and believes that it can also refer to quality, that such hens are often the best.
I myself have been to the champion from Kessel a few times. Once with W the Br.
Willy is not a talker, but you can put what he says in your pocket.
He lets the results speak for themselves and believe me, sometimes they are/were extraterrestrial.
With so few pigeons, is he not afraid of those so-called mega lofts? Perhaps quite the opposite. That he wishes there were more of them. More fanciers who raced 200 or more birds. Then he would have even lower coefficients, even easier and even more National ace pigeons.
Who can you learn more from in pigeon sport than from people who started small, worked their way up to the top and stayed there? Fanciers like Willy Daniels.
DANIELS MISCELLANEOUS
Hens that have mating tendencies are not removed from the loft here, on the contrary. They are cherised because they have an advantage.
You have to start learning youngsters early, when they are about 100 days old, and toss them often. He, Daniels, does it at least ten times.
In some years he loses a lot of training, but he hardly loses any of the national long distance races from 500 to 650 kms.
He races the youngsters as much as possible in the nationals because he likes to have yearlings with a lot of experience. Superman Tom van Gaver is another one.
Daniels also has to breed a lot for just one super. If he keeps 10 decent to good hens from 100 youngsters he bred, he praises the Lord.
Some advice:
Stay off medications if possible. By-products don't yield anything. He limits himself to electrolytes and brewer's yeast. Also the man who often manages to stunt so much in the Netherlands with few pigeons, Falco Ebben, has had his lesson when it comes to those products that are so much praised. Like Verkerk.
Never before have they seen any improvement in condition after administering supplements. Speaking of Verkerk, Daniels also thinks that hens can do much more than most people think.
Weekly races from 500 to 600 kms should not be a problem at all. At least not for the stronger sex, hens. The time when widowhood cocks and widow cocks alone dominated the races seems to be definitely over.
Foto; W de Bruijn.