Stockbirds

100 – 700 km:
In 1991 for the first time the famous and well-known Ad Schaerlaeckens, Baarle -Nassau was contacted and several eggs from the “Rocket" of '87 en "Sun Dillen" of  1983 were taken to Wissenkerke, which directly resulted in the 3rd golden crack young pigeons of the Fondclub Zuid-Nederland in 1992 with 92-9231152. Also the 94-9440015 was one of this bloodline and hardly beatable with tail wind. Also in recent years on a regular basis eggs are bought from this great master, always eggs from the better widowhoodcocks or breeding couples. Pigeons from those eggs are most of the time directly moved to the breeding loft, occassionally they are raced. Nowadays offspring of all famous pigeons of Ad Schaerlaeckens like "Goed Sproetje", Wounded Knee", Goodlooking", “Gebroken Poot”, "Sissy"(Vandenabeele), "Kampioen 707", "Olympiade", "Inteelt Gaby", "Superstar" etcetera  are living in Wissenkerke  Also in 1996 a youngster won  1st Golden Crack Young Pigeons at the Fondclub Zuid-Nederland.

Recently, May 2004, the number of Vandenabeele-pigeons was increased. Besides the ones obtained from G. de Nooyer, Arnemuiden, now 10 grandchildren from the famous “Wittenbuik” were obtained through A. Ruitenberg, Zwolle.

Since 1993 also pigeons from fellow club member  Mevr. Verwei (Wissenkerke) came. Those were all pigeons originating from the Belgian great master Romain Legiest, Oostakker from bloodlines  "Stier", "Kleine Bleken" etcetera.
Also some pigeons with Koopman-origin were bought from Dick Leeuwerke (6 pigeons in 1996); in the meantime those Koopman-pigeons have already been sold and the basis is since 1999 made by pigeons from Romain Legiest and Ad Schaerlaeckens. In 2003 a new bloodline will makes it’s entry as Vandenabeele pigeons will come from several dutch lofts.

The co-operation with Mevr. Verwei, Wissenkerke is today so intense that together reinforcements are bought, breeding couples are kept together, youngsters are shared andconstantly pigeons are exchanged. Two competitors have joined together to get more results from a (hopefully) smaller lot of breeding couples. The basis for these distances is now Legiest, Schaerlaeckens and Vandenabeele.

This co-operation is not only limited to the pigeons for short(er) distances but also expands to the :

Long-distance pigeons
A start for the long-distances was made with pigeons from  Comb. Filius (Wissenkerke) ho were very succesful in the eighties, but also for this discipline reinforcements were searched for and as a result in 1995  J. Walpot & Zn,  St.-Philipsland, national winner of  Pau and Perpignan and and FBZ-winner of  Bordeaux were contacted. Since 1995 on a yearly basis eggs and young pigeons from the bloodlines  “Supercouple” and both national winners were obtained. In 2001 followed by 15 young pigeons, all related to “Eric”, the second price winner on the national race from Barcelona.

The Walpot-pigeons were for a long period the solid basis for breeding. In the beginning they were mated amongst eachother, without much result. Later on they were crossbred with pigeons from other famous lofts and with results !

In 2004, very recently,  a new bloodline was introduced, namely the famous “Klamper”-bloodline from Cor de Heijde, Made.  Several grandchildren from this worldfamous bird were bought to strenghten the loft with stockbirds. We’ll see what the future brings !

So far the pigeons from J. Walpot leave their mark most; in nearly all today’s cracks their blood is represented, the best proof of this is no doubt:

The Supercouple: 1628275 X 2032894 -WALPOT X MULLER (Muller via FH Janssens/D.van Bommel)

Those two pigeons are mated since 1998 (except 1999 and 2000) and so far offspring raced: 

	4th national Mont de Marsan;
	5th semi-national Mont de Marsan;
	6ht national Mont de Marsan;
	14th national Orleans Saran;
	22th national Pau;
	25th national Mont de Marsan;
	62th national Dax;
	77th national Bordeaux;
	92th national Dax;
	107th national Dax S1;
	407th national Pau;
	23th Bordeaux ZNB;
	33th Bordeaux ZLU.
	In 2002 as an experiment a yearling hen was trained and raced on national from Dax, which resulted in the 340th price against over 10.000 p (normally hens aren’t raced).

THE FUTURE

In the meantime Jan Walpot quite racing at his home address and joined up with his brother in Steenbergen. Al, pigeons were sold and so this source dried out. This was the reason the remainders of the (generally older) Walpot-breeding pigeons were sold and another  tack was tried.

Nowadays the basis for breeding are the pigeons from Cor de Heijde, made; Since 2004 on a yearly basis  youngsters were collected from the “Klamper”-stock, (grand)children from for example “Diamantje”, “Perpignan”, “St. Vincentduifje”and “Don Michel”.

Besides that one of Cor de Heijde’s breeding cracks, 99-9910029 “Grandson Perpignan” was lent out by Cor and spent season 2006 in the breeding loft in Wissenkerke. Hopefully those lines will prove their value on the racing loft as from 2009, when the first pigeons are old enough to race the long distance.

The results with Cor de Heijde-pigeons on other lofts are incredible, each year a long, long list of national top-50 results can be presented by the champion from Made. Even recently the 1st nat. Barcelona in Belgium (Frans Bungeneers) with a De Heijde-pigeon.

Late summer 2005 long distance crack Cees van Bijsterveldt, Chaam was contacted to cash some vouchers bought during winter. The pigeons obtained were trained in autumn 2007 and will be raced with some reserve in 2008.

This fancier also has a stock of pigeons which originated partly from Cor de Heijde-pigeons (through Gebr. Van de Matten, Andel), most of the time crossbred with the supers of his own old lines like the famous “Dakman”,  “Lars”, “Favoriet”, “Dakman” and “Rolando”.

The results he achieves show this has been a succesfull method.

Also in 2007 ten eggs were donated by friend Frans Janssens, Kapelle, one of Zeelands best racers on the long distances, who’s loft is build up with pigeons from Gebr. Dingemanse, Arnemuiden, J. Allemekinders and Westrate (both Kapelle), late H. Vermeulen (Schore), Chr. Musters (Hoogerheide) and strangely enough from René himself ! (Walpot-hen)

Finally four youngsters from P.W.A. (Walter) van der Meulen, Sirjansland, joined the ranks in Wissenkerke. He’s also a real ace on the long distances and even raced 1st national from Dax.