Only the top is good enough for Erik, good results aren't good enough, the results must be superb! Getting a lot of prizes, no, getting a lot of head prizes is his goal. Whether he is succeeding in  2017? You can make up your own mind in this article.

Erik started of the season with 30 old cocks, 65 year bird cocks, 10 old hens and 30 year bird hens. He doesn't breed with his racing team but they can come onto eggs which will be taken away after about 8 days, this happens in different stages from half of February until beginning of March. The pigeons won't get to see their partners anymore until end of March. End of March, the pigeons are being trained an entire week each day until 35 à 40km (from Monday until Saturday), after this training week they go that Sunday immediately to Noyon, the partners can stay together until that day this week. Normally the next step will be 2 x a middle distance race, but as one middle distance race was postponed this year, they only went once to the middle distance to go immediately afterwards to Vierzon. 


In a matter of motivation, nothing happens until Vierzon, they only get to see their nestdish before basketing and get to see their partner at home coming, but this isn't something that Erik would call motivation. The true motivation starts from the moment they go onto the long distance races. How? Well, Erik looks at it pigeon by pigeon, that's why he is the only one that takes care of the racing team, this way he can see everything and will be in the opportunity to act quicker on the needs per pigeon. What are the kinds of motivation at the Limbourg loft? One likes to have his partner a bit longer, the other can be motivated by giving an extra box, and so on....whatever necessary.

Vierzon 20/05/2017 – 445km
Local 462 old pigeons
1-2-4-6-10-23-27-34-36-37-38-39-50-56-57-58-59-60-…(25/40)

1. BE14-2151112, she is a full sister of the 12de national ace bird KBDB 2014 and a half-sister of the 2nd national ace bird KBDB 2014 with as a father ‘New Super Sprint’ BE09-2214881 out of the strains of the ‘Olympic King of Sprint’ (1st Olympiad pigeon short distance 2007’ and ‘Lucky 77’ (1stNational ace bird KBDB Long distance 2005). She already had a first prize in 2015 and in 2016 (out of Bourges and out of Chateauroux) and does it again in 2017 with a first prize on Vierzon and the season just got rolling. Don't forget that she was also the 7th National Bourges against 19,735b and the 30rd National Argenton against 13,594b ! Her mother is the fantastic breeding hen  ‘Queen Blue Ace’ BE09-2119372.

2. BE15-2015632 is a half-brother ‘Crazy Boy’ 1 National Z  Souillac (2 National 5,282b), 1 S-Provincial Chateauroux (2 Provincial 1,580b) , 3 S-Provincial Montluçon 818b, 8 Provincial Cahors (28 National Z 2,363b), 9 Provincial Limoges (4 National Z 2,174b), 10 National Bordeaux (12 I. National Bordeaux 10,622b), raced at Erik and is doing what he has to do at the breeding loft of Bart&Nance Van Oeckel, Oud-Turnhout, namely taking care of extra-ordinary children !

 

3. BE15-2015734, the 3rd in line on Vierzon on its turn is a daughter out of the 1st National Tulle with mother ‘Iron Lady 409’, best young hen in 2012 and mother of amongst other 1 I. Provincial Blois in 2013.

4. BE15-2015506 ‘Magic Gloria’, a marvellous cock direct out of the ‘Black Magic’, 1st International Perpignan against 17,965b, his mother is ‘Glorius Gloria’ (Geert De Clercq), and she is a full sister of  ‘Gloria’ (Bert Van den Berghe - 2nd Nat. Ace bird KBDB Long distance 2013’). He won himself already 1stProvincial Issoudun against 1,213b. and also succeeded in writing a first prize on the middle distance race, Souppes-sur-loing, onto his account.