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Hok Jos Vercammen provides answers to RRP.RO questions
14:15, Luni, 07.12.2009
Hok Jos Vercammen provides answers to RRP.RO questions
1. What do you think about the increasing usage of medication (drugs and medicine)? Shouldn't we use more natural products?
Medication only needs to be given when there is no other solution left. Of course you need to treat against crop canker when necessary. But when the pigeons are healthy, we suggest using natural products.
2. How far do you go with the widowhood during the racing season? I mean, after how many races do you switch to the natural system?
The racing season of our birds starts at the end of March – the beginning of April. They are raced every week, on the classic widowhood system. The season of the cocks ends in early August. The hens are raced till the 1st weekend of September. In the month of August they have a nest. So the hens fly every week from the beginning of April till the beginning of September (about 26 weeks)!
3. How do you stimulate your widowhood birds? Is there a certain technique or everything depends on each bird?
We only race the birds on classic widowhood. We do not like the total widowhood system. We race for money, so every week the good birds need to be ready. We think that we can’t basket the same birds every week using the total widowhood system. Because sometimes their partner might get lost.
Edited by Andrei – Silviu Oprea