Race Events
Small Wonder
First Prize Winner, 200 Mile Flamingo International Challenge One Loft Race 11/09/2010
AU 10 JAX 826 HEN
More than one minute ahead of the entire gang!
Flamingo International Challenge 2010
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The Young Artist Of Houben
Famous all
over the world is the name of Houben.
One of their basic birds is ‘The Young Artist’(82-6380170) .
Every time I handled him I thought ‘how can such a pigeon be so good’.
And Houben must have thought the same when the bird was young.
It was not good looking, that was the reason he did not want to keep it for his
own use
but on the other hand the origin was too good to kill it.
That’s why he decided to sell this 82-170.
And every time people wanted to buy pigeons Houben put a bunch in a basket
(including 82-170)
so that the buyers could pick out what they wanted.
But no body liked this 82-170 and Houben had 2 options:
Either kill the bird or keep it as there were no clients.
He decided to keep it.
The old fox did many good things in his life but this was the best thing he ever
did.
This bird was to become his famous ‘Young Artist’.
In nearly all the Houben winners and Aces of recent years you will find his
blood. In fact the bird made Houben who he is.
