| Subscribe newsflash | Show all newsitems | update Published 02/05/2011 Because we were so busy the last few weeks, we were not able to publish a newsflash. The most of you have seen the photos made by Thomas Gyselbrecht of our new lofts on pipa, I think. Below the links for my comments in different languages. http://www.pipa.be/en/newsandarticles/reports/photo%E2%80%99s-new-lofts-gs-verkerk-comments-bas-verkerk http://www.pipa.be/nl/newsandarticles/reports/fotos-van-de-nieuwe-hokken-gs-verkerk-uitleg-bas-verkerk http://www.pipa.be/fr/newsandarticles/reports/photos-des-nouvelles-installations-de-gs-verkerk-avec-les-commentaires-de-ba http://www.pipa.be/de/newsandarticles/reports/bilder-der-neuen-schlaganlage-von-g-s-verkerk-und-die-erlaeuterungen-dazu-vo http://www.pipa.be/zh-hans/newsandarticles/reports/%E8%8D%B7%E5%85%B0%E6%B2%83%E5%85%8B%E7%88%B6%E5%AD%90gs-verkerk%E5%A4%A7%E5%8A%A8%E5%9C%9F%E7%AB%A3%E5%B7%A5-%E6%96%B0%E9%B8%BD%E8%88%8D%E6%8A%95%E5%85%A5%E4%BD%BF%E7%94%A8-%E9%85%8D%E6%9C%89%E7%85%A7%E7%89%87%E5%92%8C%E6%96%87%E5%AD%97%E8%A7%A3%E9%87%8A As you have read in this article the pigeons flew out for the first time in the weekend of April 2nd. Normally we have had our 1st race then. April 10th we made our 1st training toss from 10km; April 12th from 25km and April 13th from 60km.  April 16th we participated in our 1st race. The pigeons were on eggs of appr. 16 days at that time. 7 pigeons (6 of them were related to Olympic Solange) won a prize in the first 1%. We never expected that for pigeons that only fly around the loft 9 times and have had 3 training tosses. April 23rd our race was not so special. It was a though race and we think they still miss rythm, because they only loft fly. And by the way the most pigeons leaved their nest on Thursday/Friday, because we gave them fake eggs. April 30th was remarkable well. The pigeons were now on total widowhood for the first time in their life. Because we did not have had time to learn the widowhood by tossing/showing them during the week, we had no high expectations. Provincial(east) against 19.944 pigeons we started with the 21st.  This was a daughter of Ronunbel (son Olympic Ronaldo x Olympic Unbelievable) x Sita. 87 pigeons of 137 won a prize card. We are in the prize list with 2 different groups. The other group of 14 pigeons are meant for the extreme long distance in the future.