At the first stage this autumn in Arad County, organized for youngsters, the Lazăr Family, from Ineu, occupies the first eight places per launch, with a total of 13 appearances in the first 16 places. In order for everything to be perfect, the Lazăr family also wins the first place in the fanciers’ ranking. In the same area, but in Timiș County, Florin Hanciu is the one who dominates the first two competitions held so far in this association. The pigeon fancier from Chișoda, who competes under the title “Hanciu & Olar”, also won the first eight places in the first stage, and in the second stage, Florin Hanciu ranks 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9, 10 etc. on launch, plus first place in fanciers.

The first competition for youngsters this year organized in the Pigeon Association Arad took place on August 14, with launch in Kecskemet, which meant that the pigeons had to fly distances between 140 and 190 km. A number of 4,356 pigeons were basketed for the race, with 83 pigeon fanciers taking part. The first race in Timiș, with launch from Kunszallas (100-170 km), was attended by 2,063 pigeons and 37 pigeon fanciers. For the second competition of this association, the pigeons were launched from Kecskemet, and the participation was 1,944 pigeons and 38 pigeon fanciers.

The Lazăr Family wins the first race with youngsters from 2021

In order to participate in the pigeon competitions, Simon Lazăr, from Ineu, is helped by his wife. For this reason, the title they’re using is “The Lazarus Family”. The current season with the young birds started perfectly for them, after they managed to win the first eight places at the launch and the first place at the fanciers. For the Lazarus Family, the stage was 164 km long, and all eight pigeons arrived at the same time, being registered in just two seconds. Among them were two youngsters nominated for the team, rankings that brought them first place also for the fanciers competition. “We have been participating in pigeon competitions since 2016, but only in the last two years we competed both with old birds and youngsters. For this year we reproduced 150 young birds, of which 50 were sent to one-lofts and 100 were for destinated for the championship. The first two series were also held in the dark, immediately after rearing, until June. Before starting the season with them, the youngsters were taken to five 40 km training sessions and then they also participated in the trainings made with the association’s car. For feeding we use food mixtures from Nelu Feștilă (C.A.P.) and Versele Laga “, stated Simon Lazăr. We remind you that the Lazarus Family participated in this stage with 93 birds, of which 72 ranked.

Florin Hanciu dominates the beginning of the season in Timiș

Florin Hanciu has already accustomed us to being a very strong competitor in the chicken stages and more. This season, from which two competitions have already taken place, Florin Hanciu has always won the first or, better said, the first places on the launch, and in the second stage he also occupied the first place in breeders. Thus, in the first stage (163 km), Florin Hanciu occupies the first eight places, ranking 42 pigeons out of the 99 engaged. In the second stage, instead, the same pigeon fancier wins the places 1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,14,19,20 etc. and first place in fanciers, with 52 pigeons ranked out of 71 engaged. The two races took place on August 14 and 21, respectively. “I started the season with 100 youngsters, which I compete with as naturally as possible. I don’t keep them in the dark, I don’t pair them and I don’t motivate them in any way. My goal is to select the youngsters for future marathon competitions, because this is the main category in which I participate. All my youngsters have to fly the 10 races in the flight plan, including the long distance stage. I use several competition mixes from Beyers, and to train, apart from home training, I only take them if needed. I analyze how the muscles look and how they look in general, and if they decide they need it, I prefer to take them to two or three shorter trainings, of 45 km ”, explained Florin Hanciu.