Europa One loft race

rudderfett wrote:

Great news lads, I just won second in this weekends Europa one loft, £5000. So the new loft is now go. What a weekend lots to eat and drink and an amazing race240 miles in 5 hours birds all dropped in batches great to watch and what a race this is the birds were amazing condition and 800 birds went to the race over 700 on the day, a credit to the managers.

hi martyn, is this one of the birds you had with andrew hitchcock....? i remember he had some good muelman janssens a while ago, does he still have them and has he raced much since his return to racing....?

David is that the andrew who write in the books

Don Webb wrote:

David is that the andrew who write in the books

i dont know don, he used to have a pigeon forum which martyn, me, ken, stormqueen, steve b and bluewhiteflight were members of........his lofts are known as double cottage lofts and he would sell pigeons but had recently re started racing last i knew, i remember martyn telling us he was in with andrew and entered the europa oneloft race.

That's good is he a member on here, must say the mulemans were top pigeons look at albert babbingtons book, raced them myself

Hi David and Don. Just to answer your questions, I did have 2 birds in Europa that I was in partnership with, and yes it was with andrew hitchcock. We had 3 but 1 was lost early on, the 2 left were a deklak an a tav- regole. They both went to the final race after lots of hot spots and about 30 trainers, but only 1 made it the deklak it came 447th out of 800. I have had a lot of deklaks from andrew and they really are very good also meulmans, I have bred some good birds from his birds and raced a few direct from him also. I will try and buy that bird from the europa, and keep it for breeding next year as its been put through its paces by europa and survived, so cant be too bad and it will sell quite cheap for what it is.

I have found andrews deklaks to be very good racers, I have bought a few for the last 2 years and have had a few fly a good programe. They are ideal for crossing with my Janssens as they are janssen based, and very nice looking birds, he tells me he is selling the deklaks this year so I will be looking for some of his stock birds on Elimar when they come up for sale.

hi martyn, yes i think it would be worth buying the winning bird of yours back.......and as you say you can breed off it as it surely has been well and truely tested, and done well too........or, could you send it on to a yearling loft next season ? or doesnt he do it?

Well done Martyn and fair play to you mate