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                   ANTOINE JACOPS


                    Racing season 2008 has started


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11th NATIONAL ACE-PIGEON KBDB MIDDLE DISTANCE 2008 with the B-08-6042082  ped.click here

In 2008 there was for the first time in all races in Hafo Turnhout participated in next wonderful results:
1st    CHAMPION   YEARLINGS 2008
2th   ACE-PIGEON YEARLINGS 2008 with the B-08-6042082  ped.click here
7th   ACE-PIGEON YEARLINGS 2008 with the B-08-6042090  ped.click here
8th   ACE-PIGEON YEARLINGS 2008 with the B-08-6042056  ped.click here
10th ACE-PIGEON YEARLINGS 2008 with the B-08-6042011  ped.click here

19 July 2008 Pithiviers 384 km 18°C.wind south west 576 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,114 lofts my first bird 1st price speed 1794 metre minute with the  B-07-6042082  click here

12 July 2008 Orleans 419 km 19°C.wind west,south west 1208 young birds Hafo Turnhout,136 lofts my first bird 7th prize speed 1543 metre minute with the  B-08-6051290  ped.click here

12 July 2008 Orleans 419 km 19°C.wind west,south west 413 old birds Hafo Turnhout,109 lofts my first bird 12th prize speed 1525 metre minute with the   B-04-6073050  ped.click here

12 July 2008 Orleans 419 km 19°C.wind west,south west 765 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,133 lofts my first bird 27th prize speed 1516 metre minute with the  B-07-6042056  ped.click here

05 July 2008 Melun 320 km 22°C.wind south west 890 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,139 lofts my first bird 2th prize speed 1578 metre minute with the  B-07-6042090  ped.click here   2 minuts later
the  B-07-6042082  ped.click here   won the 5th prize speed 1560 metre minute

28 June 2008 Pithiviers 384 km 24°C.wind west 881 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,140 lofts my first bird 27th prize speed 1461 metre miute with the   B-07-6042056  ped.click here

21 June 2008 Melun 320 km 24°C.wind south west 1031 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,158 lofts my first bird 3th prize speed 1341 metre minute with the  B-07-6042037  ped click here   3 minuts later
the  B-07-6042079  ped.click here   won the 6th prize speed 1320 metre minute

21 June 2008 Melun 320 km 24°C.wind south west 1069 young birds Hafo Turnhout,117 lofts my first bird 17th prize speed 1268 metre minute with the  B-08-6051245  ped.click here

21 June 2008 Melun 320 km 24°C.wind south west 611 old birds Hafo Turnhout,132 lofts my first bird 14th prize speed 1281 metre minute with the  B-04-6073050  ped.click here  

14 June 2008 Marn-La-Valee 306 km 15°C.wind west south west 964 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,140 lofts my first bird 3 th prize speed 1436 metre minute with the  B-07-6042042  ped.click here   3 minuts later
the  B-07-6042082  ped.click here   won the 10 th prize 1426 metre minute

07 June 2008 Pithiviers 384 km 22°C.wind north west 593 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,106 lofts my first bird 34 th prize speed 1100 metre minute with the  B-07-6042042  ped.click here  it was a bad race duration of the race 52 minuts.

31 May 2008 Toury 393 km 22°C.wind north west 976 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,138 lofts my first bird 19 th prize speed 1076 metre minute with the  B-07-6042090  ped.click here  it was a very bad race duration of the race one hour and some birds are lost again.

24 May 2008 Pithiviers 384 km 25°C.wind north east 825 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,131 lofts my first bird 2 th prize speed 1174 metre minute with the  B-07-6042090  ped.click here

24 May 2008 Pithiviers 384 km 25°C.wind north east 493 old birds Hafo Turnhout,114 lofts my first bird 6 th prize speed 1154 metre minute with the  B-03-6192394  ped.click here

May 17 2008 Dourdan 378 km 26°C.wind north east 1189 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,151 lofts my first bird 22 th prize speed 1066 metre minute with the  B-07-6042090  ped.click here  it was a very bad race and some birds are lost

May 10 2008 Melun 321 km 28°C.wind east north east 2003 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,186 lofts my first bird 18 th prize speed 1211 metre minute with the  B-07-6042011  ped.click here  1 minute later the  B-07-6042102  ped.click here  won the 27 th prize speed 1205 metre minute,and the  6042082  ped.click here  won the 30 th prize speed 1204 metre minute.

May 03 2008 Melun 321 km 23°C.wind east  1672 yearlings Hafo Turnhout,168 lofts my first bird 4 th prize speed 1311 metre minute with the  B-07-6042056  ped.click here  3 secounds later the  B-07-6042082  ped.clik here  won the 5 th prize speed 1311 metre minute

April 27 2008 Noyon 220 km 20°C.wind south 1419 yearlings Achtverbond,189 lofts my first bird 39°prize speed 1505 metre minute with the  B-07-6042090  ped.click here   foto clik here

April 20 2008 Noyon 220 km 18°C.wind east 729 yearlings Achtverbond,130 lofts my first bird 7 th prize speed 1211 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042111  ped.click here
In the same race won the  B-2007-6042042  ped.click here  10 th prize speed 1202 metre minute.

April 13 2008 Quievrain 111 km friend Marcel (I am still in the ban to drive car etc.. brought the widowhood cocks to the club for the first real exercise this year the birds came normal home I was content

April 03 2008 My Wife Maria brought the widowhood cocks to th club to a exercise race from ca..50 km

March 30 2008 Maria brought the widowhood cocks with the car for his first exercise ca..25 km

March 27 th
By it deteriorate from my illness ther become probably only to a limited number flights partipated in 2008. I am still in the ban to drive car or bike.
I will reduce in the futur also drastically lessen with to keep pigeons even in the breeding as in the racing loft.

LAST NEWS !  Magazin De Duif:  Loft Antoine Jacops Secound Place in the
GOLDEN PIGEON 2007 :  Category Long Distance      ResultsClick Here

New in the breeding loft 2008  CLICK HERE

Results B-04-6076076 NEW in the breeding loft 2008  >>>  click here
Results B-02-6115393 NEW in the breeding loft 2008  >>>  click here
Results B-02-6115385 NEW in the breeding loft 2008  >>>  click here

                   The intention for 2008 in the loft Antoine Jacops.

For the breeding pairs I’ll keep it easy, the most of them the are living in separated boxes and are never coming together with other birds so they don’t need medicines. I couple them 1-2 December and keep the two first rounds for racing in my own loft every year.

The food for the breeders is simple: they make a mix without corn and with much different peas. In Belgium we call this ‘Luikse Mengeling’. In my opinion it makes the young ones stronger.

The first round I will have them racing separated from half of may until the end of august, for the males and end of September for the females.

I will raise the youngsters of second round natural ,the food for the youngsters is easy: I make a mix from half breeding beyers premium and half vandenabeele beyers premium,in the evening the young ones eat as many as they can every evening and the next morning, they eat half of what they ate last evening, they always eat after training.

When they are 6-8 weeks old they have a vaccination for paramixo and two weeks before the first training a treatment for tricomonaise for 5 days when I am thinking it’s necessary also one for the head for 5 days, the training by car is 5 km ,15 km , and two times 35 km.

After that they go to 70km with the club and then the first race in the club of 111 km and than every week to all different distances, the next treatment mostly comes after two worse results, never after one because I’m not in panic that easy and I have trust in the pigeons.

You can see it in the eyes and on the little feathers directly behind the nose when they stand up that something is wrong.

The widowhood cocks.

After the race season 2007 half September the young cocks came in the widow hood loft by the old cocks and are coupled together,after one week they are two hours in freedom with open widows after 10 days eggs all the birds are separated and living then all of the time in the loft, in the day with open windows but after wire, is for my better than in the open voliere, in the evening I close the windows and they are inside by night .

January 15th the hens come back in the loft and than they come back outside for one hour every day, but they have no babies after 14 days eggs I separated against that time they become a food mix: moulting beyers premium, so from half September until I’ve taken the eggs,after the eggs they become for tree weeks alone barley and not so much, that is for becoming less condition and they stay inside the loft again and when they have eggs they have the vaccination for paramixo, and also when I am think it’s necessary a treatment to paratyphoid, the treatment takes 5-6 days .And after the cure with barley they become again the mix vandenabeele beyers permium. Just enough.

Half March I start with the training at home every day for half an hour it is enough in the begin and they have a treatment for trichomonaise for 5 days.

After the first training by car, I start with my different food. When the weather is good in the beginning of April I bring the hens in the loft for one week, and I start the day after the training by car. That is very good the cocks coming directly to home and coming fast inside the loft. They remember that for the whole year, when they have eggs again, the cocks are back nest birds and that is not so good, so before the race season, I do it that way it’s all over in one week, starting with 5 km, 15 km, 30 km and then they go for 70 km with the club and Sunday 111 km. In the evening after the 111km, I separate them and all the work is over in one week.

After the race they directly become a breeding mix beyers premium, also in the evening and the next morning. Then I start with the mix: vandenabeele beyers premium. Just enough in the morning and in the evening, the last two days before basket ting mix: widowhood beyers premium and the day from basket ting they get again the mix vandenabeele beyers premium.

After the training in the morning and in the evening, I always give them a little bit hempseed or peeled sun flowers. I use not so much medicines in the race season, also when I have a bad result: no panic is a golden rule, but after two bad races then you have to do something. Most of the time is a 2-3 days treatment for trichomanaise enough, but when the very small feathers behind the nose stand up, you need a medicine for the head, but it is antibiotic, and that is the most of the time a treatment of 5 days. But when I am thinking that there is a bigger problem is.I immediately go to the veterinarian.

For the motivation of the widowhoods, I see from day to day what is good. I don’t do that much because most of the time is everything what you do not so good. When the health and the quality of the pigeons is good, the results will follow.

For the rest I am not that crazy about vitamins and food supplement or tea. I did it many years but the last few years not anymore. And I see no different at the birds or the results. It only makes me less poor. What I am doing is making a mix of the red vita mineral beer leaven, shells and small seeds for small birds. I mix it by myself and I give it to them 3-4 times a week.

The best way is keeping it simple for yourself and for the birds, and you are a happy fancier.

I hope I can do all of this on my own loft. I lost my health and I know now what the most important thing is in my life: pigeons or your health.

I hope you can do anything with this information.

Antoine Jacops.




                    Racing season 2007 has started





Training races by car

All the races flying from south-west to nord direction

March 26  6  km 10°C. wind nord
March 28  25 km 12°C. wind nord
April 02     25 km 17°C. wind east
April 04  70 km 11°C. wind nord training in club

Training by car from the youngsters born january first 2007
Apri 26   8 km 28°C.wind nord east
April 27 18 km 29°C.wind nord east
May 03  25 km 21°C.wind nord east

The"076"bandnumber B-2004-6073076
one of the best middle-distance flyers of the provence of Antwerp
two times the bird with the highest speed in 2006
He started in 2007 with this result the short-distance


April 08  111 km 16° C.wind south west 180 st prize from 987 pigeons 184 lofts Tienverbond
April 15  220 km 28° C.wind south east   13 st prize from 582 pigeons 117 lofts Achtverbond
April 22  220 km 18° C.wind east              5 st prize from 696 pigeons 124 lofts Achtverbond
April 29  220 km 25° C.wind nord east      26 st prize from 729 pigeons 127 lofts Achtverbond

Today july 8 2007
Afther problems with my health,what news of the loft the last weeks. The good weather of April was gone and than start for many weeks precarious windy weather with many rain and strong wind from direction south,south west,with every week a speed for pigeons from 100 km hour,the most of pigeons are not so happy with that fast races.

June 09 Noyon 220 km 18°C wind south west 1534 young birds Achtverbond 150 lofts my first bird 9°prize speed 1657 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042011

June 10 Chateauroux 537 km 20°C wind east 485 old birds 50 lofts Kempishe Fondclub my first bird 3° prize speed 1078 metre minute with the  B-2004-6073087

june 17 Noyon 220 km 19°C wind south 1581 young birds 146 lofts Achtverbond my first bird 1° prize speed 1711 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042090
photo CLICK HERE

June 23 Melun 321 km 21°C wind south 1634 young birds 147 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 2°prize speed 1690 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042103
The  B-2007-6042073  won in the same race the 7° prize

June 23 Montlucon 563 km 21°C wind south 232 old birds 70 lofts Kempische Fondclub my first bird 5°prize speed 1443 metre minute with the  B-2004-6073087
The  B-2002-6115385  Ace-pigeon 2006 won in the same race 6° price

June 30 Toury 393 km 22°C wind south west 1843 young birds 155 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 28°prize speed 1511 metre minute with the  B-2007-6073073

July 04 We basketed the old birds for the national race of Limoges 650 km but with the bird flu in France the pigeons came back to the border of Belgium where they are relaised Friday the race was canceled and we start on July 07 with a race in Luxembourg with a new direction for us birds east south east

July 07 Dudelange 214 km 24°C wind west 1244 young birds 122 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 13°  prize speed 1292 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042003

July 07 Dudelange 214 km 24°C wind west 500 yearlings 98 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 15° prize speed 1281 metre minute with the : B-2006-6149054

With still not the prohibition to race in France(bird flu)we make now on July 14 a start to race Germany direction,east for us it is the provincial race of Heidelberg 343 km,but not with the succes that we hope.The race was a catastrophe,beauty warm weather wind south-south west in the young bird race was the diffrend of the first prise and the last 8 hours, and bij the old birds a diffrent of 3 hours the most of the fanciers lost a lot of good pigeons. I was happy that my best old widowhood cocks and favourite young cocks are not in the race and so long the border of France is closed they are staying at home,the races for 2007 will be finished than.

July 14 Heidelberg 343 km 28°C.wind south,south west 1326 young birds 130 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 13°prize speed 1184 metre minute with the  B-2004-6042021
The same race in double 10451 young birds 907 lofts provence of Antwerp the  B-2007-6042021/07  won 74°prize.

July 28 France open his border again and we racing again direction France with the national race of Bourges 489 km.

July 28 Bourges 489 km 22°C.wind west 563 young birds 69 lofts Kempische Fondclub my first bird 3°prize speed 1626 metre minute with agains the  B-2007-6042021
The same race in double provence of Antwerp  4290  young birds 531 lofts the  B-2007-6042021  won 37° prize.
National Zone  13049  young birds  1353  lofts  B-2007-6042021  56°price.
National  31824  young birds  3621  lofts  B-2007-6042021  won  139°  prize.

July 28 Bourges 489 km 22° wind west 258 old birds 69 lofts Kempische Fondclub my first bird 2° price speed 1328 metre minute with the  B-2002-6115393   Photo Click Here
The same race in double 1348 old birds 352 lofts provence of Antwerp  
B-2002-6115393
  won  18°  price,it is for the moment his 46 st.price without double.
National Zone  4316  old birds  1009  lofts  B-2002-6115393  won  29°  prize.
National  12549  old birds  2843  lofts  B-2002-6115393  won  117°  prize.

July 28 Bourges 489 km 22° wind west 359 yearlings 79 lofts Kempische Fondclub my first bird 15° prize speed 1282 metre minute with the  B-2006-6149054

August 04 Dourdan 378 km 27° wind south east 525 old birds 97 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 1° prize speed 1372 metre minute with the  B-2004-6073076
photo CLICK HERE

August 04 Dourdan 378 km 27° wind south east 1627 young birds 155 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 16° prize speed 1338 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042138

Tuersday August 09 we basketed the pigeons for the national race of Argenton but with the bad weather in France the birds stayed on the tucks and they released them on monday August 13 with good weather west,south west wind

August 13 Argenton 566 km 23° wind west,south west 141 old birds 39 lofts Kempische Fondclub my first bird 1° prize 1405 metre minute with the  B-2002-6115393   Photo Click Here
In the same race won the 2°Ace-Pigeon Fondclub Antwerpen 2006  B-2002-6115385   2° prize
In the same race double provence of Antwerp 611 old birds 172 lofts won the
B-2002-6115393  4°  price.
National Zone  1622  old birds  453  lofts  B-2002-6115393  won  4°  price.
National Zone  1622  old birds  453  lofts  B-2002-6115385  won  20°  price.
National  5001  old birds  1323  lofts  B-2002-6115393  won  9°  price.
National  5001  old birds  1323  lofts  B-2002-6115385  won  41°  price.

August 13 Argenton 566 km 23° wind west,south west 319 young birds 66 lofts Kempische Fondclub my first bird 9°prize 1365 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042021
In the same race in double Provence of Antwerp 2712 young birds 390 lofts the  B-2007-6043021  won the 153° price.
National Zone  7621  young birds  917 lofts  B-2007-6042021  won  243°  price.
National 20844 young birds  2623  lofts the  B-2007-6042021  won  422°  price.

August 18 Dourdan 378 km 22° wind south 808 young birds 113 lofts Hafo Turnhout my first bird 4°prize 1503 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042011
In the same race won the  B-2007-6042037  the 5° prize.

August 18 Salbris 464 km 22°wind south 237 young birds 36 lofts Kempische Fondclub my first bird 5° prize 1513 metre minute with the  B-2007-6042033

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