IF-21-RVA-585 Cock

Strain: Pepermans

Short-Middle distance bird

More Belgium names from the fifties and sixties are among others: Frans Rekelhof from Bree (who was already successful with Tournier when racing in Holland), Lucien Detand from Balen and above all Louis Pepermans from Zemst. Jan Aarts brought Louis Pepermans to Lommel in the long, hot summer of 1959. They bought a small youngster with ring number B59/5048269. Parents of this pigeon were the ‘Stap’ (B54/6165053) and the B57/5036244. The ‘Stap’ came out of the ‘Kleine Lichte Vesters’ x ‘Witpen de Laat’, directly from Grandmaster Emile Stappaerts from Hoboken. The ‘Blauw 244’ had as father the ‘Donkere 56’ (5016056/56) and as mother a daughter of the ‘Grote Blauwe Maes’. The ‘Donkere 506’ was half Hermans by way of the ‘Vos 064’ and half ‘Kleine Blauwe Maes’.

The ‘269/59’ from Louis Pepermans became one of the best breeding hens of the country and she got the name ‘Goudklompje’. After the death of Louis Pepermans the then nine (!) years old ‘Goudklompje’ was sold for the highest price of the sale. But then, she had proved herself by producing real cracks with various cocks!