Saturday, June 13, we participated for the first time in 2020 with the full one day long distance team. We basketed 112 pigeons, divided into about 50 hens and 60...
Saturday, May 30, the first flight for Department 7 Central Netherlands was on the program. Despite the fact that the points could not be played due to the corona virus,...
Wat een prachtig voorjaarsweer hebben we al enkele weken hier in Nederland. Na een paar natte maanden is het de laatste weken volop genieten van blauwe luchten en veel zon....
Hooymans Pigeons closes the year with a bang !! “NEW PRINCE”, the super crack in the 2019 season of Wout Spierings ( 1st National La Souterraine, 3rd NPO Issoudun, 4th NPO...
Officieel zitten we alweer in de winter van 2019/2020…daar is nog weinig van te merken als je naar buiten kijkt. Veel regen en hoge temperaturen bepalen het Nederlandse weerbeeld. Niet...
This report was published at the website of Pipa, www.pipa.be Jan Hooymans (Kerkdriel, NL) makes a big impact in 2019 with Team Hooymans The pigeons of Jan Hooymans have been...
Recently, a beautiful report about Team Hooymans NL, Wijk and Aalburg appeared in the racing pigeon weekly “Het Spoor der Kampioenen” after the 1st National pigeon championship in the middle...
Team Hooymans UK and Team Hooymans NL achieved a fabulous performance in 2019: both teams win the prestigious “GOLDEN PIGEON” from the Pigeon competition of Jan & Rik Hermans. Team...
Last weekend 2 and 3 November was again the spectacle of auction organization De Duif: the Golden Ten. Top fanciers from the Netherlands and Belgium may buy a limited (8)...
Team Hooymans Be, Mol was immediately shot badly in the starting year 2019. Soigneur Gregory Bekaert immediately stood his ground with the Hooymans purebred horses at the Belgian Nationals for...
“National Ace” (grandson New Harry) wins 1st National Coutances for Ace Lofts (Malik & Khan) in the UK on 7 September. A week later “Lilly Bear” wins the 1st National...
Het seizoen zit erop. Op de laatste jonge duivenvlucht Melun (401 km) hebben we vol ingezet. Maar liefst 120 stuks hebben we ingemand en dit waren 40 vroege jongen en...
Over het afgelopen weekend (7 september) is weer veel te schrijven. Zo won Team Hooymans UK de 1e Section en Open op Portland met de jonge duiven en Ace Lofts...
Opnieuw succes voor Team Hooymans BE, Mol! De derde nationale klassieker van België voor de jonge duiven stond op het programma: Argenton, 578 kilometer voor de Team Hooymans BE ploeg....
Het is alweer even geleden maar het weekend van 3 augustus 2019 was zeer succesvol voor Tjeerd & Jouke Elzinga uit Harkema (Afd.11). Op deze zaterdag stond er een westnoordwestenwind...
Dat de Harry lijn in hun element is op grote concoursen dat is immers al veelvuldig bewezen. Maar toch blijft het ons keer op keer verbazen tot welke hoogtepunten ze...
Sinds 2019 zijn we een nieuwe uitdaging aangegaan. In Nederland wordt het spel op de midfond, dagfond en verdere jonge duivenvluchten steeds meer versnipperd waardoor de concoursen in onze ogen...
Op de hokken in Kerkdriel is het rust bij de oude duiven. De selectie is zo goed als rond en er mag een jonkie grootgebracht gaan worden. Op de afsluitende...
Roel Veldman en zijn duivenmaat Bert Bloemert zijn de beheerders van “Future Pigeons”, een exclusief kweekhok gesitueerd in Staphorst. Eind 2016 kwamen ze op bezoek en schaften een directe zoon van...
Er is weer zeer veel nieuws te vermelden op de website. De volgers van Hooymans Pigeons op Facebook zullen wel gezien hebben dat er overal ter wereld topprestaties behaald zijn...
Recently we had a nice article at Pipa (written by Jack van Eck) about Team Hooymans NL because of the National Victory from Chateaudun by “Brave Harry” https://www.pipa.be/en/newsandarticles/reports/team-hooymans-nl-wijk-en-aalburg-nl-show-their-class-once-again-1st-and-2nd ...
At the beginning of July, July 6, to be precise, Jo & Florian Hendriks roared over the competition on National Argenton Sector 1 with great force majeure. Against no less...
Finally a flight without showers on the flight line. We were hardly used to it this season because almost every week there were showers that hindered the normal course of...
Last weekend, July 6, the Sector Flight Argenton was scheduled for Sector 1. It was a competition with 9,512 one day long distance fighters, of which 16 were widowed by...
The pigeons were not given a gift last weekend on the NPO and National (Sector) flight from Chateauroux (610km). The release was already at 6:50 am and during the return...
On Saturday 22 June, the third day long distance race of this season was flown under beautiful summer conditions, from the 590 kilometers distant Issoudun. The pigeons were released at...
Last weekend we again received nice references, obtained by Hooymans descendants in the one day long distance races. Jo and Florian Hendriks won the 2nd NPO Montlucon against 4,201 pigeons...
Our pigeons did the impossible last Saturday! From Bourges (560 km) with a southwestern storm they managed to nestle in the head of the NPO competition of 5,266 pigeons! Almost...
Last weekend, 1st of June, Team Hooymans UK made another great performance. They basketted just 2 birds for the National race from Messac (627 km, also across the sea /...
The past weekend was a sort of ‘in-between weekend’ for us, a middle-distance flight between the middle-distance flights. Because we prefer to keep the pigeons going and because the prediction...
Last weekend, May 25th, it finally started: the one day long distance season. From now on a nice one day long distance flight and the big long distance flights …...
We had basketed no less than 241 pigeons last weekend on the NPO middle distance race from Sezanne. Roughly this amounts to 110 middle distance, and 130 long distance /...
The north wind of last weekend turned out to be tailor-made for the Hooymans pigeon. From all over the country we received messages and emails with top prizes won by...
Headwind, our pigeons definitely had to deal with that last weekend 11 May from Pont St Maxence (340km). It was beautiful Dutch weather, about 16 degrees and a strong, fresh...
If you win the first of the circle (federation) three weeks in a row then you can say that you have a sublime start! And Team Hooymans UK certainly knows...
We do not have to tell you that the spring temperatures remain far away. This ensures that the pigeons with us are not yet optimally in shape, which is also...
Last week there was a beautiful report in De Duif about the sympathetic top lover Albert Derwa. In 2014 we came into contact with him and we did, among other...
What a beautiful pigeon weather it was last Saturday. All the ingredients for a beautiful flight day were present, a calm north-east, a clear blue sky and plenty of sun....
The 2019 season has started. The weather forecasts told us it would be a very cold Saturday with temperatures of 7 degrees (max) and a sharp northeast wind. For this...
The Romanian top pigeon fancier Gabriel Catrinescu owns 2 new Olympiad pigeons. Both the 1st best young pigeon (Cat.F) and the 2nd best young pigeon (Cat.F) from Romania are in...
Het vliegseizoen 2019 staat voor de deur. Deze week de laatste voorbereidingen en dan vrijdag 12 april inmanden voor onze eerste wedvlucht vanuit het voor ons onbekende Bierges. We hebben...
De beste liefhebber van Nederland van het afgelopen seizoen 2018 naar de maatstaven van WHZB/TBOTB is geworden ons teamlid Christian van de Wetering uit Wijk en Aalburg. Met rechtstreekse Hooymans...
With “Lynn” Henry Dekker has the 3rd WHZB-TBOTB ace pigeon Young Short, she is a descendant of Hooymans pigeons! Henry Dekker from Manderveen has been flying at a high level...
Team Hooymans gaat op Europees vlak de strijd aan! Team Hooymans BE-UK-NL Vanaf seizoen 2019 gaan de rechtstreekse Hooymans duiven in verschillende Europese topcompetities de strijd aan met...
It is now widely known that John Crehan (Team Hooymans UK) can deal with pigeons. In 2017 he represented his country with no less than 2 Olympiad pigeons, “Olympic Jan”...
Team Hooymans provides the best quality to their racing lofts and satellite lofts. Our teammember Christian van de Wetering achieved at his own loft in Wijk en Aalburg the title...
The day after the successful final of the PIPR 2019 edition, we were able to view our own toppers. Of course we were curious about the condition and pen position...
Op 5 januari werd de finale van de Pattaya International Pigeon Race (PIPR) in Thailand vervlogen. Aan de start van seizoen 2018 PIPR verschenen ruim 3000 strijders, die een drietal...
We zitten alweer in december…voor het eerst hebben we op Pipa een grote veiling gedaan, 40 stuks jonge duiven hebben we aangeboden. We willen alle kopers en bieders bedanken voor...
This article is online at PIPA, written by Mr. Vennix Jan Hooymans (Kerkdriel, NL) has two new aces in his breeding loft: New Harry and Harry Junior Youngsters and...
Season 2018 was an excellent season for Team Hooymans. The weather conditions were certainly helpful because the many times head wind and summer conditions are pre-eminently written on the body...
Again we got a wonderful reference, now from Department 1: Zeeland ’96. The two-year cock NL16-1578258 from A. Beekman & Zoon became 1st Provincial Ace Pigeon One Day Long Distance...
Voor de vliegduiven is er momenteel rust op het hok. De oude duiven beginnen alweer mooi te worden maar de jonge duiven zijn nog knap kaal. Een aantal jonge doffers...
Previously we mentioned at this website the super breedinghen from “Harry x Alexia x Laatje” line of Heinz & Siegfried Mueller (Germany). You can read that article through this link: https://hooymanspigeons.com/en/duitse-supercrack-uit-ingeteelde-harry/...
The offspring of the pairing “Harry x Alexia” did a lot of great performances at many lofts. So did we won the 1st NPO Bourges in 2017 with “Baron Harry”,...
Last weekend the classic Orleans was on the program for Department 4 and Sector I. Province 4 Limburg basketed 1277 pigeons for this important NPO race for youngsters, including 62...
In the last weekend of racing season 2018, at 15th September, our clubmembers Team Diny van Oss from Velddriel won 1-2-3-4-5 Nationaal Melun against 8.389 birds in Sector III. Also, they have made a...
In our own loft we managed to win the 8th and 9th NPO Melun last weekend, which was also good for the 10th and 11th National Sector III against 8,389...
Team GPS Zuid & Ingrid de Jongh, Elshout The team of Lex de Jongh finished last week at Nationaal Gien in a disruptive way with ao 1st and 3rd National....
Arie Bustraan from Heinkenszand has an extemely talented breeder at his loft, named “Ultimate Harry” an original Jan Hooymans pigeon. Previously we mentioned this topbreeder at our website, you can...
In our satellite loft in Wijk and Aalburg with team member Christian van de Wetering, pigeons have been tested from the Hooymans breeding stable for several years now. Many top...
A big surprise for us this past weekend. We won the 1st of the club against 668 youngsters and also took a teletext score with the 5th NPO Niergnies against...
For the first time this year a positive experience for us with the young pigeon team of 2018. After some start-up troubles and losses on the first youngsters race of...
Last week we had to let sleep in our topper “Harry” . In the last few months, the overall condition of “Harry” declined more and more. An investigation by Henk de Weerd...
Crehan & O’connor have an amazing start of Youngbird Season. Their first young birds race was at Saturday the 4th of August. The race was from short distance Worcester. John Crehan...
Superdoffer “TGV” (Harry line) from M & M Kramer from Wormer is in the provisional state National Pigeon Championships One Day Long Distance in 1st place. This crack won the...
Saturday, August 4, we closed the extreme middle distance season with an NPO race from Chateaudun. Our department 7 had put in a total of 1,974 pigeons, all strictly selected...
Last weekend, the national marathon long distance race from Bergerac (849km) was hold. Our team of yearlings, who also had to deal with the heavy Agen ZLU some weeks ago, we...
Last weekend with the youngsters, Jo Hendriks & Zn. and Leon Dautzenberg achieved excellent performances Both fanciers win the 1st in their District. Jo & Florian Hendriks win the 1st Charleville...
Last Saturday it was the National race from Chateauroux . We had 102 pigeons in the fight and hoped for beautiful early pigeons. Unfortunately, our pigeons missed the pure cup nationally...
No less than 188 youngsters we had been basketted for the first young pigeon flight from Asse Zellik (124km). With the warm weather conditions we had hoped that early release...
In the weekend of July 7, long distance races were scheduled in all departments, which due to the weather conditions were all labeled as ‘heavy to very heavy’. Circumstances in...
Already a few days ago, but on Saturday, July 7, we flew from Bourges. It was a (semi) national release of no less than 16.658 pigeons, brought together by the...
“Den Boswachter” van Bert Vandenberghe wint de 2e Nationaal Agen Jaarlingen van Belgie tegen 4.086 duiven, met een rechtstreekse Hooymans. Vorig jaar speelde Hugo Batenburg (Batenburg – vd Merwe) nog...
From the very strong combination Hoffman – Regtop from Den Helder we received the following email: “The Harry’s do well again in our lofts. The 790 flies this year already...
Last Saturday we received an app from Jouke Elzinga: “This would be a stunt!”, With a picture of the reporting list of National Sector 4 long distance race Sens (593km)...
Last Saturday the 3rd NPO long distance race was scheduled, also a Sector flight. On June 23, the pigeons were released at 7:00 in the French Chateaudun, for us exactly...
In 2015 we have done a wonderful breeding together with Tjeerd and Jouke Elzinga from the Friesche Harkema. Their super hen “Esmee” was paired against our topper “Harry”. The children...
Last Saturday, June 16, a convoy of 5,160 English pigeons was unloaded at 7:10 am for the National race from Ancenis. John Crehan & O’Connor (Team Hooymans UK) had 1...
Last weekend there were 2 flights on the program. Due to weather conditions, the final unloading places were Gien (Saturday) and Asse Zellik (Sunday). For us it became a stunner...
Last weekend in Belgium the National Limoges was on the flight calendar. Totally 15.789 pigeons were inundated by our southern neighbors. Also the very strong flying combination Bosmans – Leekens...
We had basketed 131 pigeons for flight from Peronne (256km). Because the weather last Saturday 2 June was not radiant (cloudy, in itself no problem for pigeons) was postponed to...
At the sale of Golden Ten (De Duif), autumn 2016, the very first child of “New Harry”, bred by Jan Hooymans, was sold. This beautiful hen, NL16-1663953, was bought by...
We had to take care for a good filled glass last Saturday. With temperatures above 25 degrees and a (north) east wind it was dispense, especially for the pigeons. Our...
Last weekend, the pigeons of Section 7 were released on 20 May in Peronne (265km) at 10:00 hours with a day delay. It was beautiful weather, blue sky and a...
We have already arrived at the middle distance races. Two more weeks and the first long distance race is a fact. Last Saturday, May 12, we flew Nanteuil, for us...
The season 2018 is only 3 weeks old in UK and John Crehan has won already 2 Federation races! John Crehan ( a.k.a. Team Hooymans UK) presented himself already as...
It was real pigeon weather last Saturday, May 5 from Peronne (265km). With a clear blue sky and an easterly wind from the western Peronne the pigeons did not receive...
Last Saturday, the 28th of April, our pigeons flew Lessines (160km) again, just like the week before. There was chosen for this station because of the bad weather forecast for...
Grandchild “New Harry” wins 1st Interprovincial & 8th Interprovincial ! In Italy, the racing season is already at the longer distance races. The last 2 weekends, (14th April, 21st April),...
The racing season has only started cold or the first references are already rolling in the mailbox. Our clubmate Peter Bambacht from Hellouw won the 1st from Regio C against...
Sunglasses on, nice drink in hand, blue sky and the tension of pigeon homecoming … do you want more? That was pretty much the picture of last Saturday 21st of...
On Saturday, April 14th, the 2018 racing season officially started for our department. Other departments have already started, year after year it appears difficult for department boards to come up...
Heinz & Siegfried Müller from Germany (Rheine) have topquality at their lofts. Last years, the put themselves in the spotlights due to stunning result. For some years back, they had...
We zijn inmiddels al weer aangekomen bij een nieuw seizoen, vliegjaar 2018. Vanaf nu gaan we weer wat frequenter nieuws plaatsen op onze website. Zo gaan we wekelijks weer onze...
Last Friday, January 26, the final race of the Victoria Falls One Loft Race was flown in Zimbabwe. (website of the OLR: https://www.victoriafallswcpr.com/index.php) At a distance of 410 kilometers the...
At the national competition “De Fondspiegel” we had the 4th best bird at the youngbirds. Our young cock NL17-1410233 achieved very well in his birth-year. At the 3 longest young birds...
Today online a report at Pipa about Hooymans Pigeons. Read the whole story below: Jan Hooymans (Kerkdriel, NL) sees Harry Junior as the successor for his legendary breeder Harry Jan...
At the moment, we have an auction at www.pipa.be, with youngbirds from our best breeders. This auction ends at 17th of December, 2:30 PM (part 1) and 3:00 PM (part...
In het vroege voorjaar van 2016 bemachtigde Arie Bustraan Pigeons via Pipa een door ons gekweekte doffer, de NL15-1849717 “Ultimate Harry”. Een prachtige doffer met een super stamkaart waarover hieronder...
Again from the UK, we’ve got super references from offspring of Hooymans birds, this time from Ace Lofts, owned by Malik & Khan. They have some real topbreeders original from...
We got wonderful references from our pigeons from Derek Rooney, top loft in England. Derek Rooney has a son of “Harry” (Harry’s Favorite) who breeds super and gives top results...
Beauty Harry, maybe the best breeding son of “Harry”, has again in 2017 fantastic breeding results. After his big breakthrough in 2016, the season that many of his children...
De onderstaande pagina over Hooymans Pigeons wordt gepubliceerd in het “Thailand Year Book”, uitgegeven door de Thailand Pigeon Racing Association (TPRA). De nieuwste kweekreferenties (2017) van Harry, Beauty Harry en...
A nice report about Hooymans pigeons in the UK at the loft of John Crehan can be read at Pipa: https://www.pipa.be/nl/newsandarticles/reports/john-crehan-manchester-uk-and-his-hooymans-superstars John Crehan is now into his fourth full season...
Last Sunday the last flight of the season 2017 went out. It became a combined flight of old and young birds (natour/late tour) and we took part with 242 youngsters...
At Saturday 2nd September, in Afdeling 3 Oost Brabant the race from Sens was on the program for the young birds. Provincially 2.865 pigeons were basketed. The birds have to...
The dentist from Reeuwijk, Willem de Bruijn, shows his skills and craftsmanship once again on the NPO flight for young pigeons from Fontenay. The 467 kilometer final flight was flown under beautiful...
Last Saturday, September 2, the flight of truth was presented to youngsters on the program, Melun, 395km. With the predicted northwest wind it would be a wonderful test for the...
Over the past two weeks, several top performances have been set by Harry’s descendants and our basic couple Jonge Bliksem x Dirkje. And this on several lofts that are at the top...
The final of the “He Who Dares Wins” One Loft Race (https://whodareswinsoneloftrace.club) in Engeland was flown at 27 August. The 307 birds who survived the trainings, raced in a strong race...
Although we missed the true head, we were pleased with the outcome last Saturdays’race. Under beautiful weather, the young birds flew from Niergnies (235km). At 11:00 it was possible to...
Last Saturday, the “Carwinner” for young pigeons was on the program. 7,535 pigeons from Section 7 were unloaded at 10:30 in Pont St Maxence (338km) and on the way there...
Last weekend there are again nice references at other lofts with Hooymans bloodlines. The NPO race Roye (Afd.7) – 8,755 d. is flooded with Hooymans lines! No less than 5 pigeons...
Sunday, August 13, the Derbyrace for young pigeons was on the program, and was hold from Roye (293km). We sended 150 young pigeons, last week we divorced them and they are...
Batenburg – vd Merwe has a fantastic 2017 season with beautiful top notations. After the 1st and 5th National Agen Jaarlingen ZLU, in which the “Hooymans blood” was richly represented, On...
At 7th August at 8:00 AM the 801 pigeons of the Belgian Master edition 2017 were released for Asduifrace II, from the French town of Clermont. Distance to the loft...
At Sunday 6. August, our last NPO race 2017 for old birds was hold, for us from Issoudun (590km distance). It was a total release together with NPO departments 7-8-9-10-11....
Last Saturday there was only a youngbirds race for us on the schedule. Again from Lessines, for us 160 kilometers. The ZLU flight Narbonne was also abandoned. We did not...
Last Saturday, 22nd of July, our only really national one-day long distance race of Holland was on the programm. As usual, this national race was hold from Chateauroux, 612 kilometer...
Last weekend 8 and 9 July, real series results were made on various lofts. Many of the head pigeons appeared to be breed from Hooyman’s lines. That’s how both Crehan & O’Connor,...
Now that the season goes further and the “heavy” flights are on the program, the credentials achieved by pigeons with Hooyman’s blood are really moving in. It’s almost impossible to...
Saturday 8. July, the NPO Race Bourges was flown for departments 7-8-9 (combined in the North Union, N.U.) The winner in department 7 was our “Baron Harry”. In the total...
Last Saturday, in hot circumstances and westly winds, the NPO race from Bourges was flown for Provinces 7 – 8 – 9. In the total Noordelijke Unie concours, 18.312 birds...
Last Monday 3.July, Montelimar interprovincial flight took place in Belgium. For Francis and Bart Verdeyen, Steenokkerzeel (B) a 707 kilometer race. After flying 10.5 hours at 70 km / h,...
Yesterdaynight 4th of July, the birds from Agen ZLU came home… The ZLU specialists Hugo Batenburg – vd Merwe from Klaaswaal did send a super team to Agen ZLU and...
Last weekend, Teletekst-race Melun (395km) was on the program. Due to the bad weather in France (and the whole of the Benelux), it was decided to bring the pigeons back...
At 24th of June, in Sector 1 the marathon race National Bergerac was released at 14:30h. In total, 8.389 pigeons participated in this long distance race. Leen Pruijsen from Moerdijk...
Last weekend of 24th June, a lot of Super NPO results were achieved with pigeons from Hooymans lines!! Last weekend, the difficult weather conditions seemed to be perfect for our...
Straight from the south she was coming, the blue yearling pigeon 788/16. Due to the strong wind and rain, she had lost the ‘slice’ and stayed for two minutes (!) around the...
The Belgian superstar Albert Derwa, wellknown and famous for his tophen “Paulien”, is busy for a strong season 2017. You can definitely speak of a strong season if you look...
Last Saturday, June 17, middle distance race Pont St Maxence was on the program for our pigeons. In view of the NPO race from Bourges (25th of June) we kept...
Last week, June 4th, the combination Verbree from Putten (NL) made a super result on Pont St Maxence (392km) in NPO Division 7. against more than 8,000 pigeons, they won...
Last Saturday there were two flights on the program, middle dinstance Pont St Maxence (338km) and NPO flight Vierzon (559km). Due to the beautiful weather, the pigeons were released early,...
Often we get a lot of credentials of achievements achieved by descendants of “Hooymans pigeons”. Last week we received a top reference from Terry Marshall from England, one of whom...
At 27. May Erik Jansen from Maarssen won the 1st provincial Melun Andrezel in NPO Afdeling 7 against 14.316 birds, in very heavy and hot circumstances! His pigeon races 17 kilometers...
Last weekend, the pigeons raced at June 4 from Pont St Maxence (337km). At 6:30 they were already unloaded and they got on the road some western winds. We had 77 pigeons in...
Last Saturday Melun Andrezel was on the program, a middle distance flight with 2 nights basket and a distance of 395 kilometers. The wind was southeast, which is very unfavorable to...
Saturday 20 May our pigeons flew from Peronne (265km). Our 105 participating pigeons were unloaded at 9:30 and high speeds were expected with the south wind. This also turned out when...
John Crehan (UK) (Crehan & O’Connor) has a fantastic start of season 2017! His original Hooymans birds doing a great job, and this is only the beginning! Johns’ plan is...
Last Saturday there was a return flight from Quievrain (190km) on the program. Under sunny conditions and a solid east / northeast wind the pigeons were unloaded at 10:00. Just after...
It was a smooth flight last Saturday, April 29th! At 9:45 in Niergnies (235km) our pigeons were unloaded, 110 of us on a participant field of 4.187 pigeons from Region...
Saturday 22 nd April we had a race from Lessines (160km). Against 705 birds we won: 3-4-6-23-25-29-30-31-32-33 etc. (104/43). In our club we were beaten by Diny van Oss. Her first...
At 8. April 2017, the racing season in the United Kingdom started. John Crehan did send 54 Hooymans birds in his first race from Wollaston. In total 1911 birds raced in...
At Saturday 15. April, our first short distance race was on the program, a race from Asse Zellik (124km). We participated with a team of 107 birds. At 2:15 PM,...
Last Saturday, April 8th a training from Duffel (95km) was on the program. We basketed 115 pigeons, at a total of 402 pigeons in the club and over 3,000 pigeons in...
Friday, March 31, 2017 It’s been a while since we posted some news on our website. With the advent of the new racing season, you will be read on the...
“Carnival Wonder”, the best racer ever at Carnival One Loft Race South Africa !! We are proud to tell that wonderbird “Paradise Daisy” (re-named to Carnival Wonder) will move from South...
Jan Hooymans, the proud new owner of “Olympic Magnum” We proudly present you our new inforcement: “Olympic Magnum” from D & P Soepboer ! This superhen, we recently bought at EPW, became...
Today we had 3 birds in the top of the Final Race of South African One Million Dollar Pigeon Race. They won 3rd, 14th and 40th Place against 2.434 birds....
At 7. January, the final of Pattaya International Pigeon Race in Thailand was held. A bird of Mike Taechaubol, Thailand was the fasted over the 530 kilometer race. His bird was bred...
Only one month to go, and the final of South Africa Million Dollar Pigeon Race (SAMDPR) is there. In the preliminary races, and Hot Spot Car races, our birds show good...
Today we received the pro-photos of the 2 Olympiad birds of John Crehan. “Olympic Jan” – 2nd Olymiad bird Yearlings UK “Olympic Janette” – 3rd Olympiad bird Youngbirds UK ...
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...
The best birds are bred from the best birds… a term that is often heard. But also a term that contains much truth. Having super pigeons is a dream and...
John Crehan has a promising new racing star on his loft, a beautiful Grandchild Harry bred in 2016 by Jan Hooymans. This fantastic young bird becomes 1st North West Region...
“Jonge Harry” (Anton Ruitenberg) becomes a new breeding wonder! Anton Ruitenberg has a nose for excellent birds. So, at one of the first over the world, he contacted us to...
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The yearling cock 15-1130889 from Jo & Florian Hendriks is topcandidate for 2nd National Acebird One Day Long Distance NPO 2016 !! After won several nice prices as young bird,...
“Golden Sanne” from the Dutch combination Martijn & Marit Kramer, Wormer won at Nationaal Fontenay (3 September) for the 4th time a superprize and won 11th NPO against 1.894 birds. voor...
Team GPS from Elshout had a great result at Nationaal Gien. In Sector 1B against 5.273 birds they achieved: 5-8-12-13-14-15-42-51-53-54 etc (61/40) Their first bird was “Super 25”, and she won 5e NPO in Afd. 3 and 5e in...
Patrick Marijnissen from Fijnaart wins Saturday 3rd of September the 1st National Gien in Sector I against 11.848 young birds! His winning birds raced the 456 kilometers with an average speed...
2nd National Melun Sector 3 with inbred to “Harry” !! Hans Dekkers from Hedikhuizen again showed to be a topfancier. At the National Race of Young birds he won the 2nd National...
In the summer of ’15, we did a co-bred with Tjeerd & Jouke Elzinga. Their best racer “Esmee” was paired to our best bird “Harry”. At the most important young...
In the weekends of 6th and 13th August, John Crehan dominates the Altrincham and District Federation with huge results! Big amounts of birds arrived together, and all of them arrived...
Granddaughter Harry becomes 1st Nat.Acebird NPO Middle Distance!! Joseph Poelstra & sons from Utrecht are the owners of a super racing hen: “300”. This incredible yearling hen, brings the Poelstra family...
Last season we got a new racing talent at our lofts, our yearling 15-1849007 with the name “Harry Holland” In his young carreer, he became already a top racer! In...
Leon Dautzenberg from Kerkrade won last Saturday the 1st NPO Limoges against 1.326 birds! Leons winning hen, listened to the name “Jantine” is bred from an original Jan Hooymans cock.,...
The last middle distance race of season 2016 is already behind us. Last Saturday, August 6th was the flight “Blois”. For the third time it was a NU-flight, a nice...
Friday August 5, the 4th ace pigeon race was held in Belgium (Belgian Master). We had two pigeons in the fight, with a field of 793 pigeons. The fourth (and...
Team Bert Van den Berghe wins 2nd and 11th National !! Both birds are grandsons from ALEXIA!! Against 5.929 birds, Bert clocked 2 full brothers in the top of the...
Last weekend, 2 of our club members are succesfull with offspring of our pigeons. At first, the combination Rien and Irving van Oss with loftmanager Erik v/d Laak. At the...
Last weekend, the long distance race La Souterraine was on the program for Jo & Florian Hendriks, Nijswiller. This 605km long race became a huge success for them, with no...
Last Sunday the long distance flight Issoudun was on the program, a race with a distance of 589 kilometers. Our department was there along with sections 8-9-11 and turned it to a...
Last weekend (the weekend of the national race from Chateauroux), the NPO race from Chateauroux in Afdeling 10 was won by Roelof Coster from Staphorst. His winner is a grandchild...
Last Saturday, 9th April, the National Longdistance Race of Holland was flown from Chateauroux (611). More than 40.000 birds were released at 7.00 and have to find their house. We...
Coming weekend, we have 3 races on our programm: Our ZLU birds are basketed for Agen (915km) The Long Distance birds (hens) will basketed tonight for NPO Bourges The cocks will basketed...
Last Saturday was our 1st-day long distance NPO race for the door. We had 117 pigeons in the battle, these were our widows and the entire ZLU-distance team. We decided...
Last Saturday, the 2-year old cock “811” from our teammember Christian van de Wetering won for the second time the 1st Provincial, both times against more than 12.000 birds, both...
Last Sunday, May 1st was flown Niergnies (230km). With a calm north wind, the pigeons could fly back home under a beautiful sunny sky. At 9:00 it was released, it was...
It seemed as November, last Saturday … With a degree or 8 we had to do it, and often a few cold shower of rain. Our region was once again...
As mentioned last weeks report, John Crehan has a very good start of the season in the United Kingdom. At the first short distance race (9 april) he won 2...
Saturday April 16th was already the 2nd flight of 2016 on the program, this time from Quievrain, a 190 km race for us. There was a strong southwest wind, not our...
Last weekend, April 9 was the big day: the official start of racing season 2016. Always exciting what will bring us the new season. Teletext or just not.. Will the wind...
Last Saturday, April 2nd, our Region C flew a training-flight from Minderhoud (58km), our club took this opportunity to test the system clock (with new software). Next weekend April 9...
We live now already mid-March. Spring is coming! With the beautiful weather of recent days its starting to itch a lot … still four weeks until the first race, with...
Afgelopen zaterdag 6 februari werd de finale race gehouden van de One Million Dollar Race in Johannesburg, Zuid Afrika. Na een geduchte trainingsperiode van 15 trainingsvluchten en 5 Hot Spot...
At first, we wish everybody a fantastic season 2016 and all the best in health. One of the nicest periodes of year is now going on. Potential top breedingpairs are...
In de kampioenschappen van de Noordelijke Unie (NU) hebben we dit seizoen mooie noteringen weten te behalen op de discipline waar onze focus op ligt, de dagfond. 7e Onaangewezen Eendaagse...
More than a week ago, wintertime has started already. The always good Golden Ten is past and we now work up to the coming breedingseason. We start to breed at...
Bijna twee weken geleden alweer hadden we de laatste vlucht. De veren van de duiven gaan al goed losser zitten, dat is te zien aan de vele pluimen die ons...
Last weekend 12 September we had our last race of season 2015. It was the National Grand Prix for young birds, for our Section from Troyes (398km). The wheather predictions...
Recently we inforced the breedingloft with “Blue Baron” an incredible perfect builded blue cock, raced by Peter Colijn (Colijn & Fox) from Nieuwendijk. Some seasons, this speedcanon raced the stars from the...
Different fanciers achieved very good results with birds with “Hooymans” blood. Good for us to know! First we have Wout Spierings from Waalwijk, who has his youngsters in great shape. Last Saturday...
Last weekend we had 2 races, 1 for the youngbirds (Morlincourt, 295km) and one for the late tour (Quievrain 190km). We basketed 82 birds for Morlincourt and 81 for Quievrain....
For Jan Hooymans phenomenon “Harry” was a dream come true: a pigeon, which arrives 3 times in the top 10 of the record against a huge amount of birds under three...
After a calm weekend, our young birds could go for it again last Saturday. We played 87 pigeons in the race from Niergnies, a flight of 150 km. They flew...
A while ago Team GPS from Elshout bought our “Inbred Harry”, a strong cock from the winners couple “Harry” x “Doutzen”. They did not play our “Inbred Harry” in the...
On Saturday August 15 John Crehan played his Hooymans pigeons in the race of Hullavington. 1255 pigeons from 48 members participated in this race. The flight started at 10.00h under...
We have had a quiet weekend. The competitions of last weekend were cancelled, due to the bad weather. On the one hand that’s a shame, but on the other hand...
There is a new addition to the Hooymans pigeons! Hen “Leontine” from Leon Dautzenberg will reinforce our breeding colony. “Leontine” is not only a beautiful hen, but she...
John Crehan continues to bring good news about his Hooymans-pigeons. His pigeons produced great results in the race of Tewkesbury. They took the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, and...
Yesterday the third Ace Pigeon Race took place from Jouy-le-Châtel, a flight of 267 km. Notwithstanding the tough circumstances, our “Snelle Mario” arrived at 14:59:55h. Thereby this topper took the...
Earlier we announced already in “Good news from England” that the pigeons we bred for John Crehan produce nice results. Yesterday we received again good news from England: also in...
Saturday the 8th of August our race pigeons had the race of Quievrain ahead of them. In total 1804 pigeons of 78 participants got released in Quievrain, after which they...
Naast de nummers 1 en 2 op Teletekst van het afgelopen weekend, stond er nog een duif met Hooymans-bloed op Teletekst! En wel op plaats nummer 10. Een veel belovende...
In springtime we breeded some young birds for John Crehan. Last weekend was an exciting one, because John played his first competition with them. The young birds made a start...
Er is een nieuw aanstormend talent gespot onder de duiven: “Milan”. “Milan” is net een jaar oud en heeft nu al een flink aantal prijzen op zijn naam staan. Hij...
The doping checks are strongly tightened after the Lance Armstrong scandal a few years ago. This does not only concern racing cyclists, but also our racing pigeons. On May 29,...
Zaterdag hebben we deelgenomen aan een nationale vlucht. Door heel Nederland werden in totaal 37000 duiven losgelaten om de strijd met elkaar aan te gaan. Daarvan behoorden er 3504 duiven tot onze afdeling....
Last weekend pigeons with the “Harry”-blood (also from other fanciers) reached again the top of the record. * M&M Kramer from Wormer take with their young bird “15/057” the 1st of...
Last weekend we had 2 races on the program: * St. Vincent ZLU (1027km), we basketed 10 birds * Melun (395km) we basketed 54 birds *** St.Vincent ZLU was escaped...
Hooymans birds at John Crehan won 1 & 2 in federation at Saturday 4th of July! John Crehan ends his old-birds-season in the UK with a very nice 1st and...
Afgelopen zaterdag vlogen we Pont St. Maxence, om 10:00 werden onze 52 duiven gelost op 337km afstand. In totaal stonden er in Afdeling 7 Midden Nederland 6.702 duiven in concours. Sneller...
1 & 2 op Agen ZLU in N.I.C. 2128 – Velddriel Afgelopen vrijdag stond Agen ZLU op het programma, een fondvlucht met ochtendlossing van 914km. Om 6:30 werden de Nederlandse...
Grandchild Ome Sjaak & Hind wins 8th Provincial at heavy race! Gyany S. Antonescu from Romania made a topresult from the heavy race from Smila (679 km), only 1 bird topped the 1000 mpm...
At the beginning of season 2015, Loftmanager Mario said: “If we won a 1st NPO, i jump into the cold swimming pool with all clothes on!”. Last Saturday, he fulfilled...
A great continuation of a good Long distance season till now for us resulted in the 1st NPO Bourges last weekend. It was top hen “Alyda” who let all 4,843 competitors see...
Team Koopman did a great job last weekend at Long Distance race Souppes sur loing (585 km) . They get their birds back like a short distance race! Congratulations! Ze kregen...
1st & 5th against 2.884 birds with children of “Sunny Boy” At May 30th, John Crehan had his first race across the ‘channel’, from France to England. A heavy test...
GRANDDAUGHTER HARRY WINS AT RIK HERMANS 1st Nat. Chateauroux 25.710 yearlings and fastest of 44.314 birds !!!! CONGRATULATIONS RIK !! ...
Last Saturday we had again a surprising experience! From the NPO race of Bourges (563km) we won 10e NPO + Teletekst and from our 40 racers we have 7 birds...
Midfondvlucht Pt.St.Maxence 30 mei 2015 Deze midfondvlucht, tussen de twee dagfondvluchten in, hebben wij gespeeld met alleen onze 32 weduwduivinnen en 1 doffer (die herstellende is van een verwonding). De...
Topreferences in the weekend of 26th May with Hooymans birds!!! 1e NPO Bourges Afd.2 Brabant 2000 against 8.103 birds The 1st NPO Bourges in Afd.2 is won by L....
Last Sunday 24th of May, we won the 8th NPO Blois with “Alyda”. Against 6.613 birds we win: 8-18-31-58-64-69 NPO Later on this week more information about this first One Day...
Race report Pt. St. Maxence, 9 May, 2015 The weather forecast for the coming weekend were not so favorable and that’s why was basketed a day later, just on Friday. We fed...
Hooymans birds won 1-2-3-4-5 in the UK at John Crehan! For weeks already, John has his birds in top condition. His yearlings don’t letting him down with all kind of...
With beautiful Sunny wheather, the race from St.Quentin (259km) was flown last Saturday. At 8.00 AM, the birds get their freedom to sprint to home. In the early morning, it was...
As mentioned last week, in England it was again a resounding success for John Crehan & O’Connor! In total, he played now 9 races with direct Hooymans birds: 7 races in 2014...
Two days before Kingsday, the wheather saw again not too good. Both Saturday and Sunday were the predictions that resolving the birds would be difficult. The solution experts changed on...
HOOYMANS BIRDS WINNING 3 DIFFERENT 1st PRIZES AT 1 DAY !! In 3 different provinces, 1st prizes are achieved by Original Jan Hooymans pigeons, all at the same 18th April. It...
With beautiful weather, blue sky and white clouds our pigeons were released last Saturday at Quievrain, at 10:15. For us, a distance of over 190 kilometers. Our pigeons handles the...
Last weekend, John Crehan has his first race of this season. It begon for him with a ‘lightning start’ ! From Worcester, against 1.058 birds, he started with the following...
With a day’s postponement, the race from Asse Zellik was yesterday released at 10:15. We had basketed 111 pigeons, about half males and half females. The south / southwesterly promised high...
March 27 was the final race of the oneloftrace Derby Arona in Tenerife. Every year another blood tough race, which the strongest pigeons distinguish themselves. Excellent terrain for the Hooymans pigeons! In...
Read now the article about the ‘Hooymans pigeons at other lofts in 2014’ at the website of Pipa. Click on following link: http://www.pipa.be/en/newsandarticles/reports/jan-hooymans-kerkdriel-nl-did-great-in-other-lofts-in-2014...
This statement often beats very nice … including this week. During the days, its sunny and around 15 degrees, night freezes … alternating with rainy or foggy days....
There’s plenty of life back in the ‘tent’! Such a week and a half ago we weaned at around 150 promising gleaming youngsters. Thanks to the mild weather breeding went...
Again we received notification of a top racer, born of the “Harry” line. The “Flits 583” is a beautiful blue cock. His father is a grandson of “Harry”. Harry was...
Offspring of the superpair “Jonge Bliksem” x “Dirkje” winning everywhere. And many times, we hear that their offspring (g.children) give also very good children again! So, offspring of our “Harry”...
In the acebird championships in SAMDPR oneloftrace, the Hooymans birds showing their capacities. “Hot Spot Averages” No less then 5 Hooymans birds, classifies themselves in the Top100 in the “Hot...
FINALE RACE “MILLION DOLLAR RACE” – South Africa On January 24, the final was raced from the South Africa Million Dollar Pigeon Race, or the SAMDPR. A total of 2453...
At the wellknown championsJohn Crehan & O’Connor, original Hooymans birds from 2014 race amazing! Below some results achieved by Crehan & O’Connor with only ORIGINAL Jan Hooymans birds, in the...
Niergnies, 13-06- Saturday, June 13, we participated for the first...