STEF BALS

HENDRIKS - SANDERS

HISTORY

The mission started in the year 2012, when Henrik and Brian agreed to start a new breeding place together. There was a lot of discussions abouth were the birds should come from, but they agreed to have birds from Koos Van Koppen in Stenbergen. We made the contact to Koos Van Koppen in Stenbergen. We did know that Koos Van Koppen, has been one of the best sprint and middle distance loft´s in the Brabant 2000 area. We told Koos Van Koppen that we also would like to buy, some birds from a unkown man " A FUTURE STAR " on the longdistance flights. Koos Van Koppen returned to us with the name Ruud Nijssen in Halsteren is the one you are looking for. He is a new man with good results on 1000 km. flights. We started to study Ruud Nijssen and his results, and decided to make a visit. The birds Ruud Nijssen had was mainly from Jan Van Eekeren. Jan Van Eekeren birds are based from Jan Arden pigeons.

Oktober 2013, we bought 15 birds from Koos Van Koppen and 8 birds from Ruud Nijssen.The pigeon´s from this import was 30-60 days old, so we waited until march/april before we started breeding. When we was visiting Koos Van Koppen we notisted that one of his best breeding cock´s was directly from Gebr. Sanders. NL-05-1017742 was á direct son from "blue Vierzon". Therefor we started to get more interested in this loft. In the start of 2014 we bought a direct daughter from Blue Vierzon on á internet auction.

November 2014, we went to visit Koos Van Koppen and Ruud Nijssen again, because we needed to buy some hen´s from Koos Van Koppen and some cock´s from Ruud Nijssen. When we returned home we bought one bird from Gebr. Sanders on á internet auction. A son directly from one of their best breeding Cock´s "Mr. Teletekst". In the start of 2015 we bought 5 birds from Gebr. Sanders from online auktions in Europe.

Our succes rate has allready been very big with theese pigeons. The results are getting better and better. In 2015 Henrik S. Rasmussen was Sector Champion with young birds. The final race Altona 378 km. Henrik had 9 of the 10 first birds (1-2-3-4-5-7-8-9-10) of 505 birds. In 2015 we also had 15 winners in the club. Brian Jensen was 2 best with yearlings in our sector, and was 5 time´s number 2 in the Sector. Brian Jensen was placed number 6 to the National Danish Championschip. In our Club we made a result everyone will remember for a long time. on the first flight with youngsters, we had the first 69 birds of 343. We won 5 of 7 races with young birds in the club.🙂 

In 2016 Henrik S. Rasmussen was sector winner from Göttingen 26 june 615 km. 1 of 151 birds 1483,36 mpm. Poul Erik Helweg had 2 sector winners from our pigeons. Winner from Bregninge Church 1 july 156,826 km. 1 of 727 birds 1468,200 mpm. and winner from Tønder 13 august 2016 208,930 km. 1 of 390 birds 1242,029 mpm. Brian Jensen had 3 sector winners from Lüneburg 2 july 420 km. 1 and 2 of 280 birds 1366,55 mpm., from Soltau 30 july 453 km. 1 of 258 birds 1219,01 mpm. and from Soltau sport 30 july 453 km. 1 and 2 of 140 birds 1195,73 mpm. Brian Jensen was best in the sector with yearlings and 3 best loft with old birds on the middle distance sport.

We have 24 breeding pairs for the 2016/2017 season.

After a magic season in 2018 we decided to sell all the birds. This conclusion was made because Brian did not have time because of family issues. His son Frederik had autism, therefor he decided to use more time on family. All birds were sold out in 18 birds in Norway and 56 birds on mc-auctions.com. When the auction was running Brian decided to buy back 4 birds. After this auction we decided to buy more pigeons again. Henrik should race youngsters from theese coupples.

In 2020 Henrik moved to another sector. this year he was 1 champion with the youngster´s in sector 63, and had 1 sector winner. Later that year Brian´s son Frederik died 15½ years old. This was a terrible time for the whole family.

April 2021 Brian decided that he will compete again from 2022.

Henrik had 5 sector winner´s in 2021, his best result in 40 years as a fancier. He was 1 price winner with yearling´s MD and 2 price winner in the MD nominated birds. 

24 pairs are now ready in the breeding loft, so we can´t wait for season 2022 to come, we hope for many top results.