Giel Janssens (Epen) fix value on the Dutch marathon races
21 Feb 2022
For many people the village Epen from the Netherlands is well known, here are the lofts of the famous tandem Janssens - Hausoul. Unfortunately Jean Hausoul left us in the summer of 2019 and Giel Janssens continues on his own. The colony where so many top performances have already been made on the marathon races and where many other fanciers have also succeeded very well.
Honouring Jean
Jean Hausoul had built up a big reputation. In 1990 he became 1st National Champion Marathon and 1st National Champion Overnight Long distance together with Hub Keulers. As Jean suffered pigeon allergy more and more he decided to say goodbye to pigeon sport in 2001. He gave his friend, Giel Janssens, a round of eggs of his best pigeons and all pigeons were sold afterwards. They did make the deal that Jean could go and watch the pigeons coming home after a race at Giel’s place. It didn’t stop at looking. Giel and Jean saw each other a lot and Jean told how he would race hens. He selected out 10 hens, mainly yearlings and two-year olds. These hens were being raced on a nest position and the results didn’t wait. The pigeons were a mutual experience and responsibility.
In 2003, the combination Janssens-Hausoul was born at the lofts of Giel. Giel was a fanatic care taker and implementer, Jean took care of the planning, way of working and system. Together a sublime team. Both were very fanatic and had an unknown love for pigeons in common. The ladies , Els Hausoul and Maria Janssens supported Jean and Giel fully when practising their hobby.
The base of the current strain is out of the eggs that Giel received in 2001 out of the best pigeons from Jean Hausoul. It was an iron strong strain built up with pigeons out of the ‘Zwarte Moordenaars’ (‘Black Killers’) from Marcel Braakhuis crossed in especially with van der Wegen and Brothers Kuijpers blood. Eighteen youngsters came out of these eggs and weren’t raced, but used to build up the current strain. The inbred pigeons were raced just as all other pigeons and used for breeding afterwards. Jean and Giel went looking together for reinforcement and got these at Jef Eijkeboom out of Mechelen. They got cocks over there which still had blood from the old kind from Jean himself. Next to him, Giel and Jean went to Gerrit Boyen from Nuth.
An iron strong breeding loft
To be able to stay for decades at the top of the international pigeon sport it is extremely important to have an iron strong breeding loft. Well…our marathon champions have this pure class on their loft. All of them pigeons that had proven themselves being able to put super results on the results lists.
A few top pigeons:
“De 800” NL13-1548800 , winner of:
1st International Ace bird Perpignan 2015-2017
16th Nat. Perpignan ’16 against 4,029b.
33rd Nat. Perpignan ’17 against 4,789b.
127th Nat. Perpignan ’15 against 5,589b.
46th Internat. Perpignan ’16 against 12,689b.
76th Internat. Perpignan ’17 against 14,581b.
438th Internat. Perpignan ’15 against 15,594b.
Is at the moment the base breeder on the loft. In 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation he is perfectly able to
At the moment Giel is auctioning a strong group of youngsters out of his proven breeders and among them are 2 daughters of topper “De 800”
“Evi” NL07-1031871, passed away in February 2018
Won: 1st National Ace bird Holland Barcelona 2009-2013
37 Nat. Barcelona ‘10
161 Nat. Marseille ‘08
435 Nat. Perpignan ‘10
609 Nat. Barcelona ‘09
612 Nat. Barcelona ‘12
746 Nat. Barcelona ‘11
791 Nat. Barcelona ‘13
A daughter to “Evi” is “Fleur” (NL14-1358056), winner of:
12th National Barcelona ‘17
25th International Barcelona ’17 against 17,026b.
200th National Barcelona ’19 against 4,132b.
“Fleur” is on her turn already mother to: 21st National Pau ’17 – 23rd International Pau ’17 against 11,285b.
“Fleur” is a half-sister of winners of : 15th National Narbonne ’17 – 30th National Bergerac ’17 – 36th National Barcelona ’19 – 88th National Narbonne ‘17
“Juweeltje” NL15-1129416 , winner of:
16th Nat. Barcelona ’17 against 4,504b.
31st Internat. Barcelona ’17 against 17,026b.
6th Nat. Barcelona ’17 hens
13th Internat. Barcelona ’17 hens
686th National Barcelona ‘18
The beauty of the story is that the mother to “Juweeltje” is a full sister “Fleur” (see above) or in other words; we get back to that strong “Evi – family” .
“Juweeltje” is a granddaughter to that other base cock “Zwarte Lourdes” (NL04-1195457 ), winner of :
1st Nat. St. Vincent ’06 against 16,621b. (961km)
21st Nat. Narbonne ’05 against 2,992b.
31st Internat. Narbonne ’05 against 5,870b.
A world result on Barcelona 2019
In a sportive way they set a world result on the most important marathon race of the year namely Barcelona. Jean and Giel basketed 24 pigeons and they showed more than their class on this for them 1,089km race. National, against 4,312 pigeons, they won: 15 -16 -35 -36 -83 -111 -160 -200 -283 -731 -779 -786 -866 and 946 prize ! On an international level, against 15,981 pigeons, they won : 27 – 29 – 75 – 87 -190 – 259 and so on…
Keeping in mind that the 2019-edition was an extreme though one (the international winner got a speed of 944 m/m) then you know enough and you are able to judge and appreciate the class of the Janssens-Hausoul pigeons perfectly.
“Siem” wins 1st National Agen 2020
The highlight for Giel of the 2020 season was of course the international win from Agen with his topper NL 16-1802944 "Siem", a 4 year old widower who already won 113th National Narbonne and now 1st National Agen in 2020 against 6,642 old pigeons and also the fastest of all 12,220 Dutch pigeons released from Agen. His half-brothers are also doing great with 15th National Pau in 2018 and 94th National Marseille in 2016.
For Giel, after 1st National St.Vincent, 1st and 2nd National Marseille hens and 1st National Pau hens it is already the 4th National victory on his record.
At the moment Giel is auctioning a strong group of youngsters out of his proven breeders and among them are 1 daughter of national winner "Siem".
