John Crehan goes to Olympiad Brussel with 2 original Hooymans birds!!

John Crehan (UK) experienced a fantastic Christmas in 2016, that’s for sure. The day before Christmas John received a letter from the British pigeon association that two of Johns’ pigeons could be delegated on behalf of the United Kingdom to the Olympics in 2017 in Brussels. Great news for John, 2016 became for him a year with gold edges! Congratulations John from our side!

Its all about the cock 15-1849658 “Olympic Jan” and youngbird hen NL16-1663148 “Olympic Janette”, both bred by Jan Hooymans.
Both birds raced fantastic last season. Here the photos of both birds:

The  “Olympic Jan” is a middle sized very nice blue cock, bred from a son of “The 800” (Gebr.Scheele) x “Last One” (Jan & Rik Hermans). This cock was paired to “493 Sister Harry”. This superhen also became mother to 14th National Acebird Youngbirds Fondspiegel 2016, raced by Christian v.d. Wetering (with Lady 3000).

The “493 Sister Harry” is a full sister to “Harry” and direct daughter to”Jonge Bliksem x Dirkje”. She is the nestmate of “Hilde”.

Here the pedigree of “Olympic Jan”:

The young talent “Olympic Janette” is a light chequer hen, crossed from the lofts of Hooymans x Minderhoud.
Her father is bred from “Harry” x “900”. 900 is a halfsister to “Harry”, bred from “Dirkje”. So the father of “Olympic Janette” is a double grandson to “Dirkje”.
The mother of “Olympic Janette” is a blue hen, original from Koen Minderhoud. She is a full sister to Koens’ topracer “Geeloger”!

Here the pedigree of “Olympic Janette”