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Sick of it (20-12-23)

You get sick of that intermediary (broker, agent, broker, middle man, dealer or whatever) from the Far East. Let me call him/her X

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A bit of fiction (14-12-23)

I say it often, what makes pigeon sport attractive to me is that everyone can be 'the fellow fancier'. After all, pigeon fanciers are of all classes.

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Dealing and playing with young birds (part 9)

For example, you don't suddenly move nest pans closer together. This does not start the evening of basketing, but a few days before

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Dealing and playing with youngsters (part 8) (05-12-23)

How different from these weaklings are youngsters that have the basic qualities that every pigeon should have: Both are of course related to each other

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Dealing and playing with young birds. (part 7)

Lezers die deze serie volgden is het misschien opgevallen dat we nog geen aandacht besteedden aan het medische gedeelte. Toeval is dat niet.

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Dealing and playing with youngsters (part 6) (04-12-23)

And what happened? As he sat with his basket on the side of the road, he saw his second round come over, which he had released at home

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Frozen drinking water (30-11-23)

Bart B is one of those people who live in an apartment with the pigeons about three kilometers away

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But... (28-11-23)

I was asked if I had ever heard of Hooymans. And if I knew them.

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Strain/race (26-11-23)

Strain/Race?

 Someone asked me if I knew anyone else with the pure Hofkens breed, besides J v A. After all, he lived in my neighborhood and I had known Hofkens and his pigeons well. That was true. 
I replied to him that Hofkens had no strain and never intended to form a strain. And that this also applies to today's well-known names slash good players. I still have the sales list of the ex-butcher from Merksplas and it shows that Hofkens got them everywhere. And STRAIN? Please stop this bull shit. It is high time that word was banned from pigeon racing and the vocabulary of pigeon fanciers.

 Strain/Race is a group of people, animals, or plants that are distinguished from other groups of the same biological species by the same hereditary traits.

 Can't believe he'll be happy with my response. So be it.

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Was everything better in the past? (24-11-23)

When the words 'Den Ad' are mentioned at my house, don't think of the National Ace Pigeon Middle Distance from Marcel Wouters, but..

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Simon Wolf O L R specialist (08-11-23)

I got an email from Elton Dinga in which he had the news that the Hoosier Classic race had been won by a descendant of 'Thomas 6'.

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The main thing (08-11-23)

As long as pigeon sport has existed, it is mainly 'form' that fanciers talk about. Rightly. 

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Questions (03-11-23)

Pigeon sport is very simple, unless you are just starting out. You can see that in the questions that such people sometimes have

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Fooled (01-11-23)

I got another e-mail from a Romanian who feels hugely caught by a Dutchman

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Belgium and Belgians (20-10-23)

Many elderly people, including pigeon fanciers, like to talk about the past

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