We recently visited the world legends Andre and Piet Kuypers in Neer. They very kindly let us visit despite suffering a recent break in and robbery that resulted in both brothers receiving injuries and in fact Andre had only been released from Hospital on the morning of our visit after a four month stay with a very bad injury to his arm after the attack.
One wall in the brothers kitchen dedicated to a truly legendary team of pigeons at the real long distance…
The birds themselves were as expected quite outstanding and it is quite easy to see how they are so successful in the Marathon two day races. It is well known that their bloodline, based on the original base couple NL71-1393807 ‘Zoon Spin’ x NL69-1247869 ‘Zuster Pau’ made extreme distance racing look easy with the Barcelona s 1,2 & 3 all sons of the base couple achieving results that had not been seen before or since.
Barcelona 1~
1st National Barcelona
3rd National Barcelona
Barcelona 2~
2nd National Barcelona
21st National Barcelona
44th National Barcelona
95th National barcelona
116th National Barcelona
Barcelona 3~
3rd National Barcelona
11th national Barcelona
54th National Barcelona
Another two daughters of the old couple are..
‘515 Duivin’~
13th National Barcelona
87th National barcelona
99th National Barcelona
‘113 Duivin’~
7th National Barcelona
38th National Barcelona
Then their are the other two wonder racing hens ‘Beatrix’(1st National St Vincent & 2nd National Bergerac) and ‘Zwartje’ (2nd National & 3rd International Barcelona) that are also descendants of the old base couple. More recently they also raced the ‘Nachtvleiger’~ ‘Pauduiven 699′ ~ ”Zoon Nachtvleiger’~’Roos’ and many more multiple performers from the classic National and International races.
Also in recent years the descendants of the basic pair ’07’ x ’69’ won the Barcelona International Race for Chrtien Vanoppen 1987 ~ Wim Van Leeuwen 1988 ~ Jan Theelen 1993 ~ Willems Thone 1996 ~ Valentin Vanheusden 1997 ~ Comb.Gardien-RBB 2002 ~ Vrosh Meyers 2004 ~ Danny Vagenende 2008 and so on…
The Kuypers Brothers have maintained the bloodline of their original couple and their famous racers complete until the current times with further great use of the bloodlines of other super marathon performers Jan Theelen, Wiel Cramers,Wim Van Leeuwen, Anton Van Haaren to maintain their high performance levels…
The brothers great friend Jan Hermans arranged evrything for us and we were very lucky indeed to be able to select for our own breeding loft from the principle pairs and must thank the brothers for their hospitality and generosity shown on our visit…
Hi
Looking at kuypers bros pigeons do you have any of these lines I have 1 hen pure kuiper and van haaren cock hard to get info on the brothers info thank you
Yes we have some birds direct from Kuijpers Brothers. See our Breeders Profiles section