Theo Weytjens (Zutendaal) wins 1st Nat (z) Argenton 1,263 yearling pigeons

On the second national flight from Argenton Theo Weytjens scored with 1st Nat (z) Argenton against 1,263 yearlings. In total he clocked 4 pigeons in the first 35 national and the condition is good. Also on the previous flight they started with 13th National Bourges against 17,189 yearlings and they are ready to rock here in Zutendaal in the coming weeks.

Top results on 2 National flights in 2025

7 Nat Argenton 13,988 yearlings
13 Nat Bourges 17,189 yearlings 
27 Nat Argenton 13,988 yearlings
34 Nat Argenton 11,557 old 
35 Nat Argenton 13,988 yearlings
95 Nat Bourges 17,189 yearlings

System

The system here is such that both cocks and hens are raced, the intention is that the cocks will not fly all national flights to limit losses and to keep the motivation in the racing team. That does not mean that they do not fly nationals, at Bourges the first pigeon was a hen but after that they were all cocks.

So they are raced on total widowhood that were paired in the spring and were allowed to pair freely, a small group of hens are raced in a garden loft and they walk in with the young pigeons every day. After training they are brought back to the garden loft every day, the intention here is that they will mate with young cocks later in the season and thus be motivated.

The other group of the racing team were therefore paired for a few weeks in the spring, half of them had eggs and were allowed to brood briefly, the other half were not paired and were then simply separated.

It is striking that these hens are still darkened like the young pigeons and this until mid-June, they are then also raced until the last national flight. At 5:30 pm I put them in the dark in the evening and in the morning I give them light at 7:30 am.

The pigeons train once a day in the morning, first the cocks train and then the hens. The hens then enter the corridor with the cocks and go straight to the aviary. In the evening they are allowed to come in and go to the sleeping loft where rollers are provided on the floor. The training is now usually 20 to 30 minutes, then they fly up again and make an easy round for half an hour a day.

The hens certainly go along every week and do not see each other when they leave, they come home and are allowed to recover before coming together. There are always latecomers which demotivates the pigeons, that is why I only let the pigeons together the next day and I do this in 2 groups for a few hours. 

Winner Argenton

BE 24-5078502 Blue Hen

    1 Nat (z) Argenton        1.263p
    7 Nat                                13.988p
    5 Mettet                              787p
    7 Sourdun                           383p
  15 Vervins                         1.106p
  17 Chimay                            491p
  23 Trelou                               616p
  27 Gien                                1.560p
  33 Nat (z) Bourges         1.254p
213 Nat                                17.189p
  47 Sens                                1.172p
  76 Laon                               2.278p

Father BE 22-5026729 Bentley
Top breeder and also father of “Benz” 4th National Ace Pigeon heavy middle distance young (2 KBDB races) 2023 and 16th National Ace Pigeon heavy middle distance young KBDB 2023. He won a.o. 14 Nat Bourges 19,379p – 19 Nat Bourges 20,328p 
Nest brother of “Remco” 1 Nat Chateauroux ’22 17,165p
Son of “966/16” Ben Gaby Vandenabeele x “227/12” Martine Gaby Vandenabeele

Mother BE 22-6164036 Shana – Jan & Tom Iwens
Sister of “16” 1 Nat Argenton 19,592p (fastest of 27,284p)
Sister of several top breeders
Daughter of “830/13” Vici R & P Vervloesem x “381/14” Sunshine Van Eynde – Goovaerts x Vervloesem

They also scored high at Bourges with 13th National Bourges among the yearlings, we introduce this pigeon to you below

BE 24-5078717 “Sonja” Blue Hen

  7 Sourdun                          1.687p
12 Nat (z) Argenton             906p
13 Nat Bourges                17.186p
19 Laon                                     504p
22 Nat (z) Chateauroux      953p
68 Vervins                             2.149p
73 Sens                                  1.154p
97 Laon                                  2.278p

Father BE 20-6216029 Son Libourne – Patrick Vervloesem
Top breeder and also father of 6 Nat Bourges 19,379p – 5 Nat (z) Argenton 1,607p – 15 Prov Orléans 3,391p 
Son of “Libourne” 2 Nat Libourne 4,605p – 73 Nat Aurillac 3,886p x “Belle” Granddaughter Bak 13

Mother BE 21-5101364 Linde 
Won herself 1 Sourdun 459p – 1 Laon 150p – 2 Orléans 1 773p – 3 Laon 324p – 3 Sourdun 227p - 4 S.Nat Nevers 7,570p – 4 Vervins 397p – 6 Sens 740p – 7 Auxerre 503p – 7 Vervins 514p - 11 Dizy 1,605p – 17 Lorris 1,265p - 19 Nanteuil 740p – 22 Sourdun 771p - 26 Nat(z) Argenton 550p 
Daughter of “318” Theo Nijs x “031” Ludo Thijs

Theo & Gert, congratulations from the entire HERBOTS TEAM with this great victory. 

Buelens Kim