Herk-de-City: You have to do it anyway If this is not a kick we don't know anymore We already know Stefan for several years and you can feel the fanaticism and drive with which Stefan practices the pigeon sport. His years of experience combined with his feeling for pigeons seems to be the success formula to fly this impressive palmares.
Stefan knows perfectly what he is doing The flight team is composed of 40 hens, 14 cocks and 80 youngsters. With the hens that are raced on widowhood, the card of "jealousy" is pulled to the full because only 12 cocks are available for this group of ladies. During the week the "ladies" live on a specially structured hens loft with only perches on the wall and rolls on the floor so that it is not possible to mate together.
The "jealousy" is mainly stimulated when the hens join the cocks. Stefan then puts another scoop on top of it by placing several wooden "crawling-away boxes" on the floor. Once they know this system, the hens can't be kept and they would fight to the death on such a box. This was probably also the case with the national winner "Ghost Lady" because she and her sister did nothing else than fight to get to the cock that was hiding in one of the "crawling-away boxes".
They didn't tolerate each other Magnificent to see and apparently the motivation to show more than Stefan experienced her homecoming Through the company Natural, the "Steenbergen mixes" are commercialised. A simple but very effective feeding system. At the beginning of the week, the light "Steenbergen 1" mixture goes into the feeder and the last 4 feedings are "Steenbergen Boost" a sports mixture with 38 different grains on the menu.
For the rest with the regularity of the clock Wheat germ oil, garlic oil and brewer's yeast over the feed. Stefan also makes his own brew consisting of gin, garlic, candy sugar and onion. Twice a week a dash of this goes into the drinker. From a medical point of view, Dr Henk De Weerd's advice is followed.
