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We're on the last day of the old year, rather, as I write this we are still 4 hours away from the New Year. On New Year's Eve and night I think about what it all last year in review has been passed, cute and unpleasant events the successes and disappointments. The beauty is that you generally can better remember and quickly bring to mind the fun stuff and successes. And while these thoughts I hear popping fireworks already so a bit throughout the day and during the banging, I think back to the time when I myself was a menneke of years 8 a 9. The days after Christmas there was Eve spoken, my father went out again baking the donuts and apple fritters with all the risks of such. My father baked donuts with liquid oil in a pan on an old stove which was put down under a shed in the barn. It was an event every year to honor my father had the whole thing to work properly . The mix was a day before, made the old fashioned way because my mother always took a piece of baker's yeast by oliebollenmix, because they were delicious airy. At the time the mix was carried out, I saw my mother terrified watching the pan with hot oil and they all breathed a sigh of relief as the deal was not yet on fire. My father was n.l. already worked a few years in a row in order before even one donut fried was the lot was already on fire. This time would and should go well and indeed it did not work again. Just when my father dropped the first spoon the batter donuts into the hot oil ,shot the gas hose from the burner and yes the whole thing again in flames. Quickly things had to be repaired so that my father could continue his mission. Within my mother stood behind the stove where she was preparing to take to make the tastiest appetizers for New Year's Eve. meatballs with a slice of pickle or pieces of fresh sausage with a amsterdams getaway. she was also the eggs cooking for later with a special homemade spice mixed with the egg yolk and mayonnaise, in order to make filled eggs of. Delicious snacks were it , They were put on a scale and put in the basement so she had cooled the evening to be consumed with drinks. I still see it for me, a wonderful memory that I will always be a bit of melancholy. Furthermore, we also had this evening fireworks , I would like to see and I necessarily wanted to stay up 12.00 hour to contemplate all that banging and flashing lights. And of course I was also, for me it was great opblijf evening and would go all experience. But usually after a glass of Joy Sinas and a few donuts and snacks are my eyes did not remember , and I was woken up at midnight to watch the fireworks with a sleeping face. I think there is a good feeling to be back and have experienced the same with our daughters when they were that age. Tonight we sit with friends and eat again, donuts and snacks and will certainly be cozy. Well, and what will happen to the sport , we get new circuit layouts , new flight programs, one umbrella organization which will bring uniformity in the pigeon, as is also the case with the football , volley-ball, hockey and gymnastics federations. Uniformity so it apply to everyone who operates the sport the same rules. Let's hope so and continue to believe in a good outcome. I go all the drivers wish a lot of wisdom and of course as I wish everyone a very happy new year and good health and rich fly 2017. And as my mother often said “You should only stop living when you're dead” the next week I will again say.

We're a day before Christmas Eve, the Christmas spirit after the events of this week farther away than ever. Peace on earth, Many people have grown up with this idea, but have long been only pretty words. I remember my father told me he was called up as a soldier to go to Indonesia to defend Dutch colony. Together with 6000 man 6 weeks on a ship to a distant foreign country with a different culture and where a handful of Dutch a few centuries held sway. a country that 20 times as large as the Netherlands, 250 million people live so that 12 times as much as in the Netherlands. My father is there 3 year long been stationed, had to fight for it (God and country) but where it eventually went, was that all those thousands of troops only were there, in order to ensure that the (old) Colonials with the well-known VOC mentality were given free rein to all their valuables and trays to secure money and to make them safe and sound to the Netherlands or another safe country traveled. It has a lot to both boys Dutch, Indonesians and Moluccans killed. And those who survived and returned to the Netherlands. Those were all damaged, one was pretty good handle it for others it is the rest of his life remained a heavy burden. For the people of Indonesia and the Moluccas which were on the Dutch side, it was a raw deal. Their homes and family behind must leave their homeland. She came to the Netherlands with beautiful promises, but were once arrived here that promises little more about. They were put together in wooden barracks or worse, in a 2nd world war former German transit camp (Westerbork). My father said that later on there that he felt quite guilty shore and that he thought “Peace on earth” was totally lost and that it was only based on hope. I write in my pieces often about hope, and I say if you long enough it goes it hopes a time will be fine. But the recent attacks, wars and events in the past few years, I can not say other than, I should give my dad unfortunate enough alike. Peace on Earth is farther away than ever and yet we are going to celebrate Christmas with the “Hope for a Peaceful Earth” I think then. When I think back to our sport, than birds to be seen as a peace symbol. I have at the moment yet 50 peace symbols on the loft, and it is indeed for me so that when I blithely in their box in the loft bowl and peace symbols see sit or I see them on the good ground running here and there a grain of corn pecking or just flit from outside to inside. I forget really everything and I come with a peaceful feeling again from the loft. Or do they mean by a peace dove that I very much doubt, but the feeling is there any. I keep hoping to everyone that you are like me have a little quiet moment now and then. For a real world will not come the time being!!! . But as my mother often said “Who Small is beautiful is not large wards” So enjoy the little moments. I wish everyone a very happy, warm and loving Christmas wish. And the next week I will again say.

Almost a year passed , time flies !!!. It seems that the more the years pass, the faster time seems to go. And yet there must always be thrown out a final sprint at the end of the year. Alles moet of, everything should be ready.!!!! It seems there is no more new year, and that these are truly the last few days . Everything in this time of year is all about Christmas and New Year. Everywhere you walk in and you look everything is about Christmas and New Year. It all starts with the flyers in the coach with the most elaborate meat dishes , ice cream cakes, wines, Christmas trees , lighting, it does not stop. If you just read the leaflets we'll just continue in the commercials on TV. The best scenes are displayed, a big red truck with thousands of illuminated lights coming through a wonderful winter landscape to drive, or the coziest family scenes in a beautifully decorated living room with a nicer covered Christmas table where grandpa , and grandmother receive their children and grandchildren and great surprise if the doorbell rings and is the prodigal son to the door that specially flown in from a foreign place and the Christmas celebration comes home. And do not forget the cooking shows with top TV chefs , each program is nowadays a cook. And these chefs create the most amazing dishes in a half-hour time, they have 7 magnetrons , 24 hobs, 5 luchtovens week , 3 rookovens, 12 grill plates the best pots and pans at their disposal, not to mention the finest meats and fish the finest fruit and vegetables and the finest wines and liqueurs. Everything we see and hear gives us the idea that the most enjoyable days of the year are coming up, and so we also feel whether you like it or not it is just in our system. In short, Christmas remains one of the most beautiful times of the year, with or without snow, it's just the family celebration par excellence. And between all this Christmas violence duivelary continue unaffected. The first youngsters will soon daylight (kunstlicht) go see for early January they should be banded. De winterkweek is in volle gang , this is for many pigeon fanciers a wonderful time to see grow their juveniles to soon be able to fly the stars of the sky in the new season. For other devotees to wait and later begin to grow, the time around Christmas and New Year a good time to put the finishing touches on the I. A week or perhaps 2 weeks of release time to quietly along the breeding couples ask any small changes to make to the loft. These are the last days of a year. A year in which happened at all and we again with conviction and courage will look to the new year. With all the innovations, Also in the sport. There new flight programs are presented with the intention to prevent the losses of the young birds, Also new ideas are presented to counter the loss of members and also to make people excited about the duivelary. Something must be done with the duivelary which we all know, I think we have to give time and to ensure that there be informed and good decisions making the sport returns to a positive future. My mother always said “When it rains heavily , rains never last” where she wanted it as much say as everything goes fast it is also true over again. Until next week I will again say.

We are in December, the festive month par excellence. we celebrate 5 of December first the Sinterklaas (with or without black helpers discussion). Then we are going to slowly prepare for the Christmas party. The party where everything is excessive, take the food to the gifts leisure time with family , family and friends. It's time for a drink and bite again by taking the past year and look back what has been. During this time I think too often and to go back to earlier times, how at our house went over it with Santa Claus and Christmas. Sinterklaas was mainly the fear (the roe bag and taken to Spain) and the thrill of the unexpected and the presents, and then the relief and joy. I can still remember that this lasted until I years 9 was, the fun was for myself and also for my parents. You still got presents, but the tension was off. So it was Christmas when I was a young little man par excellence the party of boredom. We had to go to the midnight mass, usually worst complication cold in the church and all those gloomy lyrics and songs were sung. I always had the idea that it might be fun especially. If the church service was over everyone reluctantly walked down the long corridor outside church and wished each other a Merry Christmas. Then we got into the car and drove home to celebrate Christmas Eve. My mother usually had a delicious soup. (the homemade oxtail soup with a dash of Madeira it's me the most stuck which was delicious) Then we got a patty made of veal tongue ragout. I had seen that tongue in a pan of water to be boiled, at that time I had no idea it could be so tasty. Then dessert came out of a packet of Saroma called that stuff , a pudding powder whipped in milk and then put in the refrigerator so that it could stiffen. it was finally served in a pretty glass dish with a cherry and whipped cream. That was the Christmas Eve on the tedious first and Boxing Day , 2 days of boredom , hang and fall into the sofa or chair, lots of food and drink and can take anything because it was Christmas and then, as nothing could. Now that I think about afterwards are the beautiful memories that I think back sometimes with nostalgia. I see my parents in their younger years so for me, and now they both are not more I will still sometimes especially at this time overcome with little emotion. Now I enjoy the Christmas and Christmas just like my parents when years ago when I was still living at home. I look forward to Santa Claus to give our daughters and their friends a little something, to gourmet then enjoy with our family. And so it is with the Christmas . Even going to the evening mass in the church we still do, partly because my wife is in a chorus that should always listen to a church service on Christmas. And after the service, you guessed it, the table is set and we eat oxtail soup (not as good as my mother) luxury kalfsragout (at least that is on the potty) But the atmosphere now find the same as when our daughters and as corny as I also found that when. But I'm still every year eagerly looking forward to celebrating Christmas with our family. During all these pleasures, the devilment of course just by, only for next season good advice I am myself still not know how to deal with it. As I wrote before we try to sell our house, and depending on requirements and how fast it will go, I can only make a good plan. I have no idea when I'll link. Especially because it may just be that you need to stop halfway through the season, because you can sell house (and I will not get also home to another when I say that I first want to finish the season pigeons) rightly so!!!.. I find it difficult right now to breed pigeons as I'm not sure whether I can go fly. Wan when I go somewhere else to live it all stuck floats, and I do not choose. It remains a dilemma, because at the time of move you can simply start again, your current racing team I will have to get used to with all the problems that, so I do not choose. The only option is to look just this year and grow no or little boy . For me it's heart , but it is no different and more I see it also as an opportunity and challenge to reassemble at a new site to start all over again with fresh ideas. So as Johan Cruyff always said every disadvantage has its advantage and as my mother always said, and I've yet still more confident “You better drop the pants, the courage” and so it is of course also. Until next week I will again say.

I wrote last week about the first nachtvorstjes, we're back with temperatures in the 15 degrees above zero. The weather remains an unpredictable factor. It is of course also so that the climate will change more and more in recent years. I am now 40 years in the profession of painting , and from the beginning of my career I remember painters 15 March, the starting signal was given with respect to the exterior painting , in 15 October, the final maturity date of the exterior paintwork. In the current time and climate is the average humidity in April the same as earlier in March and so it is with the end of the season in November, the average humidity same as earlier in October, and thus is the same with the temperature, so everything moves on . They are also the painter of the materials developed by the standards of the time i.a.. faster drying products , environmentally friendly products. Anyway recent years much has changed in terms of climate for humans and animals . For those climate changes are not easy to handle, and that is a little problem. Because people are living in days, weeks ,months, years . For animals that is a different story, of course, also find their climate change, but animals do not think in time, animals work on season, feeling and intuition. I think the sport is a great example of interaction between humans and animals. Only man is sticking to the timeline in which we live and animals follow their intuition . That's why I think we should adapt the sport to be out of the pigeons and less artifice. B.v. winter breeding we begin to connect the end of November to early January, the first youngsters to rings . But finally we are too early seen a month how the climate behaves now. What do you want so much to me to say that the pigeons in this case not yet 100% ready to grow. The chromozomen in the body of a dove to know whether these are ready to start growing . That has to do with light, air, temperature, moon phase, solar position and all these elements help determine the magnetic field of the earth where birds are very sensitive to. So if the weather a month later begins in the world of the birds we will have to take into account the pairing and breeding pigeons. If the pigeons are ready in terms of spirit and body bevruchtings percentage will be higher , and will the youngsters in the egg that respond positively to all and emerge stronger in the world in this way and have more resistance against diseases and the like. That's why I'm going to keep this in mind this year and I want to link a month later with a full moon to influence as positive as possible breeding. In previous conclusion I came in response to a conversation I had with an old pigeon fancier who is also an amateur meteorologist and weather expert. He told me he came to these conclusions to a already a 5 years long study. He was so convinced of his research, and told also leveling casually that his theory was partly responsible for the huge losses of the (young ) pigeons. I find his story well worth it and would therefore go try. I will keep you informed of findings and progress. And as my father always said, “Nothing ventured remains virgin” the next week I will say.

The first few nachtvorstjes we have had, so the kale is on the table again. I see before me how my parents were only the lonely peaks kale still in the vegetable garden, everything was already in the country except those long steal with a wrinkly green leaves at the bottom here and there brownish discolored leaves that were waiting for the first frost, then the kale was at its tastiest and the tops were cut and could kale stew made. Nowadays you can eat kale year round it is at the grocery store in the freezer , and people who have a vegetable garden cut tops and put the kale a few hours in the freezer, the prince also saw over!!!!!. Winter presents itself and slowly enters, we head towards December, the month of presents , excessive eating and also the month of the lights and bright spots. For me the end a time of contemplation of the year. So I leave a bit for myself last year passed the reveu, the nice things but also come the bad things still stop by on my mind. Such as the death of a member of our club , he was only 42 years and was born not sit. I've often wondered myself what can there be so much that you want to live no more, that you can enjoy more of all the beauty around us. I have often thought of those terminally ill and who fight to stay alive and at the end of their rope to surrender themselves. How unfair is that I ask myself, one step to a healthy life and limb in the life , and the other fights with a sick body to stay alive. My mother always said “you can have someone look for the cup, but not in it” and so it is of course also. I think that you have to depend on luck and especially the independence of yourself. I favor as much as possible to draw their own plan without compromising anyone. Within our family this issue is regularly discussed with our daughters (20 in 22 year). They are all large adult girls I am very proud of, and who are at the beginning of great changes in their lives, o.a. boyfriend(s), training, a good job, steps, live by themselves. All these important decisions can be taken if you are yourself ready and you will be happy. I think you should try at all times to challenge yourself. So we as a family decided to put our house in the selling , we have had our house earlier in selling 2014 t/m begin 2016 it would then not as rafts, it was simply not the best time when . The reason we want to sell our house is that we'd be able to walk around the house , a certain degree of freedom I will say, and where it will be now we know not yet . What we have decided is that it should be within an hour of our current workplace. And what is very important to me that I can the sport companies. If you take the decision to sell and go to move your house is not there a timetable at, you never know how quickly sold your house. In your mind you hope, of course, as soon as possible, and for a good price. And there is a little uncertainty around the corner, especially with respect to the duivelary . I will sooner or later will link? or I'll link ? I can still play with the old birds and yearlings? , I'm getting used pigeons? or I'll start with youngsters at the new address?. And where I come I may continue with my old club visit?, or should I become a member of a new association?. And whatever plays I have to make any changes to the loft when I'm moving anyway. These thoughts shoot arranged by my head, but it keeps me not like to follow the same path. It's obviously not there yet but that is our home in the sale and will be sold is a fact, and with that thought I'm the new pigeon season. And then it's just wait and see how quickly will be sold our house and we can look for a new place. Where we can settle down and we can go enjoy what life we ​​will offer again. And as my father often said “saddle one with your own pleasure” he referred to it as much as, do the things that suit you and leave nothing of another dependent. So that's it for this week, the birds moult still beautiful by, a few weeks and the birds are back in the tight suit and ready to breed.??? Enjoy the healthy freezing weather as it occurs!!!! Until next week, I'll say.

It's me it was the week , I've just been on the sick list, according to the scholars . And indeed I did not feel really toppie, I have had nice gripped a bad cold and a mild pneumonia. These symptoms go with me it entails that you do not really feel called to do anything strenuous. Have lots located on the bank and when the sun shone I could thoroughly enjoy the sunlight streaming through the stained glass window shone. The colors of the stained glass and the sunlight the colors in the home were also better be more enjoyable and friendly. Also, if you look you will be pleasantly surprised out by the different colors of the stained glass , then everything changed, the color of the leaves of the trees. For instance, a tree that slowly changes color from top to bottom with the neighbors, First the upper part is yellow and slowly sinks to the bottom branches, slowly fade yellow to orange and then to red fire, if you do a painting would make would say it does not exist so perfectly beautiful that to see. If you like a few days will be lamballen still want to go do something. I once again examined the results of the past season , in the sprint races, I have no meaningful role to play, so also in the middle distance races . I saw a small bright spot in the one-day flights that I have performed reasonably exception of the last flight, there it went as though a number of years, wrong again so . I turned to leave just too late and where it is ?? Yes it's me I'm doing something wrong, it can not be that you systematically about any last-day flight in addition to the prices and therefore it can forget a nice ranking. But what I do not, couple I asked to perform at the one-day all flights racers, The pigeons are then early widowhood?. Or I do not know how these flee the feeding system where the doves to 14 Days played ? Or should I just keep playing these pigeons every week and let the rhythm ? Or should I doves interim one more time lapping at shorter distances ? Or do I have the pigeons return home longer or shorter leave together? Or I should enlighten the pigeons or just darken? These are so few questions that come to me and ask me really wonder what wisdom is this. The plans for next season, there are also: I want me some more towards the one-day flights and have decided to link the racers later, In addition, I want to play in these races with cocks and hens. The cocks I want to 14 days of play and the hens every week. Furthermore, I'm looking for a good feeding system for both cocks and hens. Or I'll darken or enlighten I do not first need some more information you get about, to the extent that the one-day. Furthermore, the youngsters flights and the late races are pretty run with here and there a success. As for the young bird races I had just hoped for in terms of performance, I find it very pleasant that I have a number of youngsters have taken over where I do see opportunities in terms of construction and type of pigeon and also in terms of pedigree. The late tour is reasonable expired , I play on these flights all hens with or without a partner , and also some youngsters who have been injured or who have flown the wrong one time and have spent a few days on another loft. This is the most relaxed flight for me because I want these little birds, the only thing I wish is that they fall fresh on the door and do not stay long absence. That's it for this week, I'll just say I wish you a nice autumn with beautiful walks and chestnuts , mushrooms, beautiful colored leaves and fresh air. until the next week.

We are very much in the autumn weather, it is rainy inclement weather the leaves on the trees have beautiful colors and blown by the wind in the branches. Here in home runs coughing the whole family, to sneeze, proesten a tea snot creator. These are the verschijnseleen who belong to this time of year. Luckily we are in terms of taking care of the pigeons in the quiet season and I can suffice in recent days with clean water and food, and not much engaged in the duivelary. The upcoming period will focus meetings , honourings, fairs and making plans for the new season. B.V. how does the flying look ? some come for proposals are losses to the problem of the youngsters,? how to keep the sport affordable ? and of course what is the future of the sport. This last question keep me quite busy lately. How long can we go on like this with the sport? , if we have already accepted us that the sport in the current way not foreseeable future will go to the souls. I hope that soon something will happen , I have now understood that the NPO board is seriously trying to analyze the current way of pigeon racing. I wish them a lot of wisdom in it !!!!!. I also wrote last week that I want to do some adjustments to the loft. I 2 pens and I have both the lofts on the front aluminum outer race. The hold applications i.a.. in. on the front and back of the lofts to close the vent just below the tiles. In addition, the races are completely covered , except the front remains open in this way “open box system” to create, and also to prevent any drafts in the loft. The ridge of the roof, I want to change the so-called kippennok, ie an increase in the rafters worth while for you to put a flat finishing approximately 3 a 4 cm is clear of the pans, creating a chimney effect that I can control with the sliders in the ceiling depending on the wind. I think that this adjustment for a more controllable environment will take care of my lofts. It's always wait and see what the consequences of these changes for the pigeons. The youngsters from next year will be immediately placed in this environment, for yearlings and old birds is a change that hopefully works out. Furthermore, the birds moult well I give them 2 weekly colombine tea plus muitzaad and garlic. And then they get 3 times per week over the feed sedochol . The first 4 for weeks 100% moulting mixture had every day new grit. na 4 weeks I'm going to run some adjusting 4 Share moulting mixture 1 share breeding mixture and 1/2 some candy seeds. And further 2 weekly tea with garlic and 3 sedochol times over the food. They also get daily fresh grit with seaweed, magnesium powder and even more minerals. And of course, every week a bath found the pigeons delicious , a little lukewarm water with some bath salts and a dash of vinegar. Wonderful to watch them like a tin of sardines in the bath abut, and then lie down to dry with the wings apart. Moulting and draws heavily on the birds and at this time they allowed it for nothing for the next breeding and racing dates back well to be the start. That's it, many pigeons fun and the next week I will say.

After a nice holiday begins normal life, Now again a week participated in the labor force. Time flies “before you know it you're old”my mother always said,. The evening is getting dark earlier and you can notice at all that we are in the fall and winter go away. It is the silent pigeon season we say, there are no more wedvluchten. The largest selection is made in your pigeons, here and there will be some pigeons disappear and some birds are added, but by and large are the breeders and racers known for coming season. Here and there are some boarded up and adjustments made to the loft. Furthermore we are busy with meetings of club , regional departments and NPO. In addition, here and there a purse at home or abroad. I like quite a bit cynical in my previous piece wrote about how my wife i.a.. against the sport looks, I myself am convinced that pigeons can only change if we actually change anything. What you see now is that many changes are made to our current CU and thinking about duivelary. As you prove the sport any favors for the future with. The elderly will fall and growth of young returnees will not recover until there is little. in short 2020 , according to various calculations will still max 10.000 members are, it is about 3 year do it again 5 year there are 6.000 membership. I ask myself quite often ask how to proceed. We're all really able to tie the pigeon to do. As it is now it looks like it. I speak regularly with the older fans (with great respect, moreover) among us, and when I listen to it well what to tell these people and have been told in the past. I come to the conclusion that these people are often heard with all their ideas and good intentions about pigeon racing. How sad it is to believe that our strong holders of the NPO management have let absentia in recent years go. How bad is listened to our older fans, fanciers we try to keep in with might and main to the flying members of associations and the like. to maintain. This is to have enough members to inkorvende baskets in your own organization or that you need at national races. But there will also become an adjustment, from 5 to 3 Members of the association may in creels and 7 to 5 members of national flights, so they think that we have solved beautiful again at the NPO.!!!!!!! I am convinced that the sport should be adapted to the standards of the times. and they i.a.. more freedoms and choices in flights allowing you to create family-friendly sports. Finally a whole new set of pigeon racing, and to do so the older members can be a very important factor. Most have been through everything in the sport that people know the ins and outs of how to deal with pigeons, and how this could be incorporated into a modern pigeon. Work with these enthusiasts plan. It would be best that plan will NPO which put the sport a new look at a responsible pace or better yet a whole new suit. A plan in which the current generation of fans may find themselves and where it is attractive for returners and more important for novices to practice the sport. As I write this I am asking myself again what makes it so difficult now to change the sport effectively and adjust to the current time. Is it the commercial interests of a handful of players who can shout the loudest ? or the sporting interests of enthusiasts with the familiar system for years to fly to the top ? . This One 2 Groups fanciers in my goodbye in the minority but are very crucial for the sport. The majority of the average enthusiast who basketing the pigeons every week this 2 groups to make their great results “basket filling so” or as specified by this 2 Groups also have talked about serious and not serious pigeon fanciers. My question is who is the “serious “en wie is de “not serious” lover. Is not serious enthusiast working man who 0.700 am to 17.00 working hours, with a family so do not have much time during the week or to set off on weekends . So by and large also can not deliver weekly top performance, and is pleased with the occasional nice result. I myself think that we “serious enthusiast” should not take so seriously “they do itself”. In any case, being NPO and departments or busy to create a responsible flight program aimed at reducing the losses of the youngsters. So that means, adjustments to the flight program in the hope that we lose fewer youngsters and more opportunities for “serious enthusiast”to set off together and more frequently and for “not serious enthusiast”the possibility of mid africhtingen all still to steps still with great difficulty responding getting the youngsters to flee to join the youngsters. Around the “serious enthusiast” to provide a platform to bring home prices. Hopefully these changes contribute in a positive way to my, we lose less pigeon. Because I think if we lose the fancier , we therefore automatically increasing pigeons lose. Now all as the state of affairs in my loft , I've been around the selection, I had a hen for a cock as so instead of 13 I go with cocks 12 playing cocks. Find it in some cases the youngsters difficult to see if it is a cock or hen. This hen was sitting or in a bin, but was still a lot of fun with a cock, So I caught them in another container with a cock. Further moult goes well with both the young and the old birds. Furthermore, I'm going to do some adjustments and to the loft but next week some more about. Until next week, I say again.

I write this from a sunlit” Ellenz”, a town on the Mosel in Germany. Spend a week's holiday and just as befits a pigeon outside the “pigeon season”. Naturally offseason for another option you as a fancier hardly!!!!!!!!!!!. No you yourself say!!!, a vacation in the pigeon season. The sun high in the sky, wonderful temperatures, cozy beaches, Other festivities, terraces. No none of this, scratch, to clean, tame, tag, drinking bowls excesses(is also with flowing water), Clean feeders. And then basketing wonderfully cozy with the men in the pigeon club until ten o'clock at night and then the cap and 12 shorts in the direction of housing. At home is the food ready to heat up in the microwave, you can only eat the delicious. Because your wife and children to the anniversary of your mother!!!! Want ja, you could not go because “pigeons hey” because that is a lot more important. After dinner take a shower and have a beer, By that time comes the missus home and asked if it was pleasant to the club?. So what if Peter had 10 pigeons , Jan had Coli in the loft, And Bart was not, that was crazy holiday (in the middle of the season what a loser) his brother Kees pigeons are basketed for him, and Kees did not know how the clock worked tjonge young what a misery. Oh how it was in my mother's birthday , Did you enjoy it ??, Yes mother says the woman was really nice, Everyone there was even your brother John who had just returned from three weeks of vacation, and your sister Nel with husband Frits was also stopped , who left tonight to go with the caravan to four weeks holiday in France. (you might have been able to give pigeons to train). No treasure we go nicely off the holiday season (meant finally pigeon season) is a lot cheaper. Have you made anything?? Yes mother says the woman I told you three times already!!! Oh wherever we go again, Luxembourg ?? No we go treasure 10 days to Germany. Why 10 days? you wanted to be back in time to go to the autumn fair in Houten. Oh that I had forgotten. And then there is a moment watched the news and especially the weather forecast for A. S. Saturday. Well the weather looks grim'll be a Sunday release, Oh mom says enthusiastically than we can look tomorrow just to play football your grandson plays his first match so will your son and grandson like as Grandpa also equally is involved. Yes you say then that would be nice, but you know hey treasure of pigeons solutions can be more of nothing. So that is again waiting all weekend at the pigeons solutions?????. This is so kind of how my wife to look at the sport. And she also says regularly , how can you get more excited your son or grandchild for the sport as she and dad or grandpa never see anywhere else than with a duster and hat in the loft. The pigeon takes my wife and many of her inflexible and few family friendly. She finds it an individual sometimes selfish sport played in a club. What has changed over time ? and how little has changed the sport adapted to the standards of the current time ??. How can you fuck people excited for the sport if there is no room for leisure and family. It is known that takes any change members , but as it is it costs members and runs steadily and there is comparatively almost nothing in return. Changes also bring new insights and possibilities again. I think there is a big role to play for the NPO and of course to all pigeon fanciers, that will have to change with it to remain viable this wonderful sport and to give new impetus to adapt the sport to the standards of the times. Because really what is more beautiful than the interaction between animals and humans, what change there will be interaction between bird and man will not be changed, and provides opportunities for youths and returning to experience the sport. Would be a nice slogan “EXPERIENCE the sport ANNO the 21ST CENTURY” Yet ?????????. Now back to the pigeon, my birds mate Tonnie pigeons cared for during our vacation, Always nice when you like someone to you who cared your livestock. They are in full moult, an important period this year they have more time to moult because I will later link the breeders and racers. This is because I hope that the proposed flight program of the NPO will be enacted. It would be a step in the right direction for what to make changes. Anyway so later link that means you have more time to prepare for everything. And make any adjustments to the loft. About the changes and the like loft. I'll come back next time. Until next week, I will say, and good luck with the preparations for the new year.

The selection is about to begin, my buddy Tonnie today comes to visit me to jointly examine my pigeons. And also to make a plan for the new season. MORE LATER !!!!!

As I promised yesterday I would go back to the selection. The first question I asked myself before we went was to select, How and in what way I want to play next season, and not least how many birds I want to start. Too often it happens that pigeons remain for pedigree. In retrospect it is only hokvulling There are birds in the breeding loft with a topafstamming or who have flown well but where never a usable let alone a good pigeon is released. “Good pilots are not always good breeders” and the other is of course also true. What is it that often so difficult to select? I think the emotion plays a role in many lovers, a nice beautiful or sweet pigeon in the loft where you can hardly say goodbye to. In addition, the purchase price, Most fanciers try to get back every year there hokversterking. For one lover € 50,00 a divine power and the other is € 500,00 a scheintje. A pigeon which disproportionately money paid will remain with many lovers, simply because they find it a waste of money that they have given out. And this pigeon is a hundred times omgekoppeld to try to grow a top pigeon from topafstamming. As a result you have a few years back is that it's really not going to work with the relevant pigeon, So off investment. And then I come back to the selection, I think that also can select the best of the best lovers, it looks at the structure and appearance of the dove ,The performance also included therein course, but I think that fanciers can distinguish good from a beautiful dove, and that makes the biggest difference. Now back to selecting the private loft , We started in the late youngsters are there 6 doffers en 3 hens provisionally remain. In the early youngsters are 6 doffers en 3 hens sit. In the perennial hens are 8 sit still. In the racing cocks are 2 sit and 1 cock goes to the breeding. Then we have the (growers) of course there are preliminary 5 and the cocks 7 hens sit. I say temporarily because I want to keep all the pigeons once in the hand in view of the links that I want to make. As it leaves look I attend next year 13 vliegkoppels and 5 kweekkoppels. There will however still e.e.a. changing the arriving time, because as you know, a pigeon is never still and is always looking for “better” . at least there is hoped . Until next week again and I wish everyone good luck with the selection.