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Our top hen BE20-6166100 started the 2022 racing season as she ended the season before, in style! Today she won on her first race of the season 1° Quievrain (104km) against 413 birds, with an impressive lead on the number two in the race. It was a beautiful race with strong headwinds.

The Vercammen birds have already proven many times to be not only successful on the classic races but also on the One Loft Races. This time the exceptional performance was to be found in in the Algarve Great Derby One Loft Race (Portugal).

Our pigeons have been performing on a very high level this season. Already from the month of April they were to be found in the head of the race, no matter how the weather circumstances were. Our young birds continued these great performances of our old birds. This weekend we sent our youngsters to the middle distance race Melun (310km). It was a very tough race with scattered rain showers and strong head winds from start till end. Our young birds were phenomenal on this Melun (310km) race. According to some people this is THE result of the year in Belgian pigeon racing. We are very proud to have such a talented group of youngsters.

Our young birds team was outstanding this weekend. We started later than other years with our youngsters because of the bad weather circumstances. We had very few losses, the only disadvantage was that the birds were not ready to participate to the national races. We are very pleased about the general quality of these young birds, we are convinced that there are many talented birds amongst them. We sent our young birds team to the Sermaises (362km) race.

In the previous article you could already read an extensive report about the national races Tulle (657km) and Bourges (472km). In this article you can read more about the young birds races of last weekend. We sent our entire team of racing to two different races for young birds. The races were fast with a rather strong wind blowing from the West to Southwest. Our pigeons prefer tougher weather circumstances. Nevertheless our birds were again outstanding. It is really a joy to have such a talented team of racers.

It was a calm racing weekend for us and the birds. The short distance races were cancelled. The provincial race Fay-aux-Loges (402km) was normally scheduled on Saturday. Because of the predicted bad weather, we decided to keep our birds at home. However, at the very last moment the board of the KBDB Antwerp decided to released the birds on Friday. The weather on Friday was much better but also tougher for the pigeons: strong headwinds and a temperature that rose till 27°C.

Our first nominated pigeon "Mustang Queen"(BE19-6016108) did it again. She excelled on the national Chateauroux (526km) race. "Mustang Queen"(BE19-6016108) won last weekend 1° Provincial Chateauroux (526km) / 1° National zone Chateauroux (526km) / 6° National Chateauroux (526km) against 7,099 pigeons! She was the 1° fastest in National Zone B2 against 2,650 birds! It was a very tough race: three nights of basket + strong headwinds and hot weather on the way back home. Also the rest of our racing team did a great job.

The birds had to stay in the basket for three nights on the national Issoudun (505km) race. It was a beautiful race with many top birds in front! Our super pigeon “Mustang Disney”(BE19-6016042) excelled again. We had again 5 birds in the national top 100 and a very high prize percentage. After the bad weather of the last week, our youngsters could finally participate to their first official race of the season, Noyon (208km)! It was a very satisfying start of the young birds season for us.

The weather circumstances for racing pigeons are tough for already several weeks. Also this weekend the birds had to be persistent to find their way back home. The birds had to deal with turning winds (mainly head winds). The weather was also changing during the day from rainy till sunny. It was not an easy task for the birds. This kind of races is perfect for our pigeons to make the difference. They excelled again. We sent birds to the middle distance race Melun (310km) and the national race Argenton (555km). In this article we will discuss our results on the Melun (310km) race.

We had another successful racing weekend at our loft. For the third weekend in a row the weather circumstances were tough. The pigeons had to deal with summer temperatures and sidewinds. On top of that the birds had to fly in cloudy weather. Especially this last factor had as a result that some races were difficult. We sent birds to Sermaises (362km), the semi-national race La Chatre (544km) and the national race Limoges (672km).

We had another top racing weekend. In this article we will discuss our result on the middle distance race Sermaises (362km). It was a tough race. The birds had to stay two nights in the basket because of the bad weather on Saturday. On Sunday the birds had to deal with headwinds and a temperature that rose till 25°C. The perfect weather for our pigeons to make the difference!

This weekend it was time for the first national race of the year, the famous Bourges (477km) race! During the three weeks before this Bourges race we had bad weather in Belgium for pigeons : strong tailwinds, a lot of rain and low temperatures. But for this race, the weather circumstances finally changed! The Bourges race was a tough one with headwinds from start till end and a burning sun. These were the perfect circumstances for talented birds to make the difference. Our new star “Queen Mustang”(BE19-6016108) prevailed and was the fastest of all the 9,041 pigeons in the province of Antwerp!

This weekend it was time for the first middle distance race of the season, Melun (310km). The release of the pigeons was postponed till Sunday because of the bad weather on Saturday. This meant that the birds had to stay two nights in the basket, so early in the season. On the way back home the birds had to deal with sidewinds from the Northwest. If you also bear in mind that the temperatures didn’t rise higher than 10-11°C, you know that the races were quite tough for the pigeons. We sent our racing hens to the Melun race and they flew an outstanding result on this race! We began with 1 and 2 against 1,670 pigeons and we had no less than 8 (!) pigeons in the top 11 of the result! Our racing cocks and some other hens we sent to the Noyon race (one night of basket) and also they flew very well!

The start of the national racing season is getting closer and closer. The first middle distance race (310km) will be flown on 1 May. Meanwhile we are preparing our racing team by entering them on the short distance races. We are still keeping the super condition away because the season is long, we want to race till early September!