Wednesday 8 December 2010

Visit Experts club (Germany)

Last Friday September 17, Ermerveen was the gathering of the Experts Club with origin in Germany.
This is a group of now 21 enthusiastic pigeon fanciers who meet twice a year to discus all sorts of subjects from modern pigeon racing.
The Experts Club is over 25 years old and the formula is to visit a top fancier at the end of the season and to organize an inspection every February where all members take their 4 best pigeons of the previous season to have them inspected by a prominent pigeon fanciers
At the end of the year the club calculates what member judged his own pigeons best and how the inspector did … A pleasant meeting is the major goal.
Members come from Hamburg up to Bayern (the whole of Germany)and they gather a day before the eventual trip on a determined location. Chairman Bernd Hollmann planned all in to perfection and 13.00 sharp the buss arrived.
Gerard Koopman was host this year and the members were extremely interested in all aspects of pigeon racing in Ermerveen. Gerard himself was abroad and could not be present, however Kjeld Spithoven and André Leideman were in charge. It did not cost them much trouble, because all visitors were very perceptive and paid attention to every subject.

In between coffee and lunch all visitors extensively discussed matter like
- Breeding
- Racing systems
- Building lofts
- Racing systems in Germany and Netherlands
- Feeding
- Extra products
- New pigeons
- One Loft Race

This afternoon was again striking prove that passionate pigeon fanciers all speak the same language … and the afternoon passed quickly.
About 4 in the afternoon the Experts Club was waved goodbye; on their way to a new meeting … it was pleasure having them as guest.