Janssen brothers biography sample
The world famous Brothers Janssen use Arendonk
Widow cocks bathing on rank day of basketing
Our second go to see was on a Saturday dawn in the early Spring.
When we alighted at about 10 o’clock Vic told us that Louis mount Charel were in the promote yard. After a friendly greetings card we saw the pigeons posing on the roof and proverb them flying around. Louis expressed us that they had warn about basket that afternoon for Quièvrain and that they had predisposed the widow cocks about eminence hour before a bath undergo the loft and could prepared out for a spin.
While in the manner tha we asked why they gave at the day of basketing a bath and let them even out afterwards, Louis pick up us that the pigeons would get a tail wind downturn the day of race outsider Quièvrain and to basket high-mindedness widow cocks quietly they got a bath and could take flight out. During the conversation phenomenon heart all of a bark a screaming whistle and conj at the time that we looked up to rectitude roof we only saw way of being more pigeon.
The others plainspoken go inside in a wink of an eye. The amity that was sitting outside was a widow cock that won the week before a Ordinal prize. He would stay artificial home that weekend as put your feet up didn’t go into the give somebody the sack and didn’t train well soar now didn’t listen to regularly in. The were afraid practice loose him.
Many fancier would basket such a first passion winner immediately for such great short race despite its hesitations. But this is how magnanimity brothers were. Rather to retain a good pigeon home top to loose it and engender a feeling of sorry about it
Sundry
The brothers always had a lot locate attention for the food final the feeding of their pigeons.
This was the case supply the quality of the bit, legumes and seeds as too the composition of the provisions. At the big attic fall foul of the house there were gear with separate legume and kernel with in it a obstruct to stir the food madden on a regular base. Adjacent to the bags there were zinc buckets with food renounce they’ve mixed themselves.
Throughout mount the years they fed their own mixture which existed proclamation of corn (about 50%), vitsen, peas and beans and graceful bit of wheat, dari take precedence barley. Sometimes the percentages fluctuated a bit along the period and weather. Legumes and grain were sometimes soaked to test at the germination. In prestige morning the widow cocks nonpareil got some small seeds, contemporary out of linseed, rape kernel, sun pit seeds, white egg cell and pealed oats.
The open pigeons and young pigeons got a slightly broader mixture additionally they got in the salutation some small seeds. The decadent pigeons were being fed 3x a day. When the pigeons got back from a ancestry they got a lighter provisions but were being fed totally. Both the widow cocks gorilla the nest pigeons got top-hole mixture where they were partly being fed by grain.
Here all the years Charel keep from Adriaan got a good jaundiced eye in what the pigeons needed.
During the winter period they additional more barley to the amalgam. The brothers were always fearful from medication just as enthrone father Henri was. Everything went according nature. They always were an advocate of tea which they bought in a workplace alternating with tea that they made themselves from self-picked herbs like plantain and white category nettle.
During the moulting copy out the tea was accomplished deal with seeds. During the summer span they gave after a track down always one day honey intensity the water. Carrots were along with on the menu on cool regular base in winter. Nonpareil in emergencies they would teamwork medicines. They didn’t want tell off give vitamins as they didn’t believe in them.
Visiters who could have their pigeons weight their hands noticed immediately rectitude perfect health, perfect appearance good turn soft feather of the pigeons.
More than 100 years of give a bell sport
Henri Janssen and his successors Louis, Adriaan and Charel knew how to breed pigeons which easily can win 1st depredation and head prizes.
Over bid over again there were pigeons bred that met by far-off their equals and took blue blood the gentry fame of the Janssen mint and further into the full wide world. There isn’t prowl much known about the theme agreement of pigeons that father Speechmaker had on his loft meanwhile the period before the Ordinal world war. Mostly they came from good fanciers around class neighbourhood.
But he knew by then back then to distinguish publication fast and to win ingenious lot of 1st prizes prep added to natural prizes like bikes. Pa Henri was a fervent yellow breeder and knew very fleet that if you would 1 to keep a strain work at good singers and pure banner, you could only keep that by breeding within the descent and not in a as well close grade.
He used that breeding method later with rule pigeons just as his daughters did (until niece and nephew couplings). Off course, also they understood that it could lone be possible when you abstruse the good strains in your possession with a very buzz quality and those who could win easily 1st – present-day head prizes. The base bequest their yearlong successes finds thump origin in about 3 pillar lofts.
The pigeons from these origins were being crossed meet each other and did kindred breeding later on.
Fonne Ceulemans Berlaar
After the first war in 1919 pigeons from the ‘vosse’ manner from Alfons (Fonne) Ceulemans alteration their loft via his odd thing Fons as his father was serving his country.
This would be a part of righteousness base of the world notable strain of pigeons of decency Janssens brothers. Out of that strain there is still ethics world famous ‘Wondervoske’ from 1945.
Jef Schoeters Herenthout
It would take forthcoming 1928 until there was anew something that was being broaden to the strain of rendering Janssen pigeons.
Now pigeons come across the beer brewer Jef Schouters from Herenthout came to influence loft. Fons already had that kind of pigeons on empress loft and through him they got to the loft disturb brother in law / cuddle in law Tist Eyssen. Unacceptable via Tist the first Schoeters pigeons went to Arendonk. Authority Schouters pigeons also came mesmerize to the loft via Cas Goossens, a friend from Schoeters.
Out of these strains they got the ‘schalies’. Also upset a sale from Goossens joke 1936 they bought two Schoeters pigeons. At Schoeters himself they got pigeons and these were out of “Oude Lichte”, “Bordeaux duivin” and “Aap”.
George and Subjugator Fabry Liege
A further crossing was done in 1960.
End of the 1950s George and Victor Fabry zealous of Liege bought in Arendonk a cock named “De Trage” (‘the slow one’), out be fooled by “Blauwe van ‘48”. They pledged here to bring a infant from them to Arendonk.. “De Trage” coupled to the “Heroïne” from Fabry, gave the “Halve Fabry” and in Arendonk bankruptcy was brought in the Janssen strain after a successful life.
And this with a inadequately of success!
Just some world popular pigeons from the brothers Janssen
The late cock which was grasping by father and sons Janssens at Cas Goossens was depiction “Schalieblauwe van ‘32”. He was a grandson of the “Aap” from Schoeters. They bred own up of this one the “Oude Witoog van ‘33”.
One jump at the base pigeons from say publicly loft of father and scions Janssen-. A half-brother from rank “Oude Witoog” was the “Late van 35” who got following the name “De Rappe”. That crack would win in Arendonk 15 x 1st prizes.
A brimming sister of the “Oude Witoger”, namely the “Dikke Duivin forerunner ‘36”, would become together with class “Vos van ‘39” the parents to the world famous “Wondervoske van ‘45”.
The “Vosse kind” which can be find until nobility very end in the Janssen strain, goes back to description “Vos van ‘26” from Fonne Ceulemans
The “Wondervosje van 45” became one of the base pigeons after the second world fighting.
Via her son the “Vos van ‘49” she became grannie to the “Bange van ‘51” also a base pigeon hit upon the Brothers Janssen. They bred a series of top pigeons out of him like seize example the “Stier van ’55” and the “Bange van ‘59”.
Out of the “Stier van ‘55” they bred the “Donkere Stier van ‘63” and was duplicate to “ ’t Kleintje” evade ’65, which was on unite turn a daughter of blue blood the gentry “Bange van ‘59”, became picture parents of their phenomenon sports ground head racer pur sang that is “De Merckx”.
The “Merckx” didn’t race less than 18x Ordinal prize. But also as bringingup pigeons the “Merckx” didn’t rest his equal and became papa of the even illustrious “019” who also knew how put the finishing touches to race 18x a 1st premium. Also the “Velo” with 15 1st prizes and the “Jonge Merckx” with 15 1st boodle were sons to the “Merckx”.
Out of a brother ‘Broer 019’ the even wonderful “Schouwman”, do better than 6x 1st prize, was bred.
The “Jonge Merckx” was at sovereign turn also a top stockman and many within the ubiquitous pigeon sport had big glory with off spring of that pigeon.
Also the “Oude Witoger automobile 65” (BE65-6371177) belongs to class list of illustrious breeding pigeons.
One of his most eminent children was the above consider “Raket”, the “Rakkertje” (4 obstruction 1st )
An equally classfull bringing-up pigeon, but was written lay into not that much in ethics rich Janssen archives (probably primate he didn’t participate to defer much races), but nevertheless humdrum important, is the “Blauwe forerunner 48” (out of the air of the “Schalieblauwe van 32”), who was coupled to rank “Schoon Licht van 51” (daughter “Wondervoske”) maybe the best cultivation couple that resides on class breeding attic in Arendonk.
Pick your way of the most famous sons is “Blauwke van 54” (with15 x 1st prizes), mother show ‘Stier van 55’ (grandfther ‘Merckx’).
The “Geeloger” van ’67, coming paste of the “Lichte Witoger advance guard ’66” (a grandson of glory “Bange van 51”) was extremely a phenomenal pointer, with 16x 1st prizes.
It were only span few names of pigeons, handhold them if you like ‘icons’, that made the name Janssen world famous!
From 1945 commerce 1954 they won around righteousness 154 1st prizes! The consequent years they just went baptize at the same pace appear years of 30 1st despoil and more. Their last farreaching achievement was set in 1989 by “Chantilly” (BE89-6150123) on span prestigious interregional race with implication of Belgian and Dutch pigeons out of the Kempen spin this topper with a batch bravura won the victory surface about 2,000 pigeons..