What year is that map? There’s no motorway on it, so it should be the early 80’s or before.
Roekoe they say in Belgium
Oh my family was into this big time i. 60’s early 70’s but all the animals got sold when my granpa died suddenly in 76. Wonder if there is anything in this book about his genetic line of pidgeons
Pigeons are the gangster rappers of birds, so it figures they’d migrate to Sweden since these days that’s where all the best action is taking place.
As a Belgian living in Sweden, I like this
Please scan every page of this book so we can all be enthralled by the (probably) fascinating history of carrier pigeons.
Oh mijne blauwe geschelpte
Fernand Costermans was op vakantie in Zweden denk ik
Miserie, miserie…
Put it next to : Recepten met reisduif
Where is the farm located?
Pidgeons are better than Bpost.
Change my mind
My guess is that a contingent of pigeons were transported there to be released to see which one would get back home the fastest. Whoever transported them there may have left the book behind.
Either that or the book is one of those gifts nobody wants, and so it just kept getting gifted to someone else until it ended up all the way in Sweden.
IF you need to know HOW it got there, the ‘history’ booklet will not help you.
Ah! now called the E-Meeuw.
Roekoe roekoe daar is de vredesduif
My home is on that map, Torhout!!! And yes there is a (relatively) large community of race pidgeon breeders here. They are called “duivenmelkers” which loosly translates to “people who milk pidgeons”.
People laugh at this sport/hobby all the time, but let me tell you, you’d be amazed what kind of money is in this breeding sport. Top pidgeons sell for hundreds of thousands €. Even the average player who can breed a line of champions can easily get a few thousand € for a single chick. My father in law is a breeder in the area of Leuven.
It is actualy super interesting and very traditional for Belgium and northern France.
And on that map I can see where my mother lives … Roeselare
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Your farm on Sweden: exists.
Some random Flemish book: GEKOLONISEERD!
…clearly a pigeon delivered it…
Perhaps it came with the reisduif?
I’m on the picture!
What year is that map? There’s no motorway on it, so it should be the early 80’s or before.
Roekoe they say in Belgium
Oh my family was into this big time i. 60’s early 70’s but all the animals got sold when my granpa died suddenly in 76. Wonder if there is anything in this book about his genetic line of pidgeons
Pigeons are the gangster rappers of birds, so it figures they’d migrate to Sweden since these days that’s where all the best action is taking place.
As a Belgian living in Sweden, I like this
Please scan every page of this book so we can all be enthralled by the (probably) fascinating history of carrier pigeons.
Oh mijne blauwe geschelpte
Fernand Costermans was op vakantie in Zweden denk ik
Miserie, miserie…
Put it next to : Recepten met reisduif
Where is the farm located?
Pidgeons are better than Bpost.
Change my mind
My guess is that a contingent of pigeons were transported there to be released to see which one would get back home the fastest. Whoever transported them there may have left the book behind.
Either that or the book is one of those gifts nobody wants, and so it just kept getting gifted to someone else until it ended up all the way in Sweden.
IF you need to know HOW it got there, the ‘history’ booklet will not help you.
Ah! now called the E-Meeuw.
Roekoe roekoe daar is de vredesduif
My home is on that map, Torhout!!! And yes there is a (relatively) large community of race pidgeon breeders here. They are called “duivenmelkers” which loosly translates to “people who milk pidgeons”.
People laugh at this sport/hobby all the time, but let me tell you, you’d be amazed what kind of money is in this breeding sport. Top pidgeons sell for hundreds of thousands €. Even the average player who can breed a line of champions can easily get a few thousand € for a single chick. My father in law is a breeder in the area of Leuven.
It is actualy super interesting and very traditional for Belgium and northern France.
And on that map I can see where my mother lives … Roeselare
You wanne make money wit ? Turn into an NFT
Send it to the duivenbond.
http://www.duivenbond.cooooooooomcomcomcom