On 11.06.2022, there was a big celebration in the Romanian pigeon fancier: the marathon stages of this season started. One of the provinces that managed to run the first stage of the marathon is the Western Province. Here, seven counties basketed the pigeons together for the first marathon stage of this season, the Dresden stage. 9,555 pigeons and 614 pigeon fanciers participated in this first stage, a stage that was won by the hen of team Firma Cristici, father and son (Luca + Miomir), from Caraş-Severin County. Curious is the fact that, in order to win all the competition, the hen had to cover one of the longest distances in the ranking.

Firma Cristici

The champion hen, having the series 0137926-2020, covered 935.85 aerial kilometers with an average speed of 1,401.85 m / min. She is one of the basic birds of the Cristici Company in the long races, fact for which she was nominated for the team. The method by which the hen competed was natural. The training of the pigeons is the same from the first stage of speed to the last stage of the marathon, year after year, with many trainings and only natural products, avoiding antibiotics as much as possible in the competitive season. The pigeons, during the speed stages, take out one chick at a time, then they are kept only on fake eggs, the owners taking care that at the Berlin stage the pigeons will have a 5-8 day old chick again. Practically, since 2006, when this team has been active in pigeon fanciers sport, the natural method is the only flight method they practice, managing to prevail in the county championship, then the national one, where they have collected several trophies since 2008. The parents of the winning hen are reproduced from the best flying pigeons at the marathon stages of the two. The hen’s father is reproduced from the cock 234015-2016, who obtained during his career the 1st place in the Old birds Marathon category by county, the 1st place Palmares County Marathon and the 1st place national Palmares Berlin, and his mother is the hen with the series 087730-2014 , which obtains the 1st place national Palmares 3 and 4 years Berlin, the 2nd place national Palmares Berlin and the 1st place county Marathon Ace Palmares. The hen’s mother is reproduced from the cock 730872-2015, who achieves in 2019 the norm in the category Marathon Ace Palmares 3 years, a very difficult category and very coveted by all pigeon fanciers who own and compete marathon pigeons. At the base of all the pigeons in the loft of the Cristici Company are a cock with Fabry blood, brought from Serbia, from his uncle, and a hen with blood Desmet Matthijs, brought by another friend, also from Serbia. These two pigeons, paired, formed an entire dynasty of champions in the loft of Caras-Severin. In the ranking of Caraș-Severin county, the second place at this stage is occupied by the pigeon fanciers Balea Bogdan & Păcuraru Cosmin with the hen series 2032106-2017, and the third place is occupied by the Ciorman Brothers with the yearling cock 0469116-2021.

Florian Cabău

The second place in the general rankings of the stage is obtained by Florian Cabău from Lovrin locality, Timiș county, with a beautiful, strong and fast yearling hen, the hen with the series 0547385-2021. This hen flies with an average speed of 1,368.29 m / min, traveling home the distance of 797.71 aerial kilometers. Originally, the bird has pigeons from the Jan Aarden and Desmet Matthijs lines, pigeons that in Florian’s loft have joined a strong family of marathon pigeons. On this flight, Cabău’s pigeons showed their full class and three other relatives of the hen 0547385-2021, who were nominated to the team, manage very good rankings in the whole competition, propelling their owner on the 3rd place in the general rankings of ascending category. The first pigeon to arrive from the team is the cock with the series 1121350-2018. He ranks 5th at the launch and is a combination of Jan Aarden pigeons, owned by Florian Cabău, with pigeons from the Kuipers Brothers line, and in the 2021 season he achieved the norm in the category Marathon Ace Old birds. The second pigeon to reach the team is the hen with the series 0341167-2017. It ranks 36th at launch and is originally a combination of Jan Aarden pigeons and Martha van Geel pigeons. This hen flew three marathons in the 2021 season. The third pigeon from the team is the cock 0482480-2019, which ranks 212nd in the overall standings. And this cock flew all the marathon stages last season, and as origins it is also a combination between the pigeons of Jan Aarden and Desmet Matthijs.

Familia Țăpîrdea

The Țăpîrdea family, from Giulvaz locality, Timiș county, lived a moment of magic: after only two flying seasons, they managed to occupy the 3rd place on the launch through their yearling pigeon, thanks to their ambitious cock with the series 0524891-2021. He traveled 844.55 air kilometers at a speed of 1,360.91 m / min. As origins, he is based on pigeons from the Jan Aarden line, and his parents were brought from the fancier Oliviu Râmneanțu, from pigeons that had met norms in categories such as Marathon Ace and Național Ace. The method of play used by the Țăpîrdea Family this season is widowhood. The third place in Timiș County in the pigeons category was a huge surprise for the pigeon fancier Dan Belega, from Izvin locality: the 2022 youngster, with the series 1165615. This young bird traveled a distance of 847.58 kilometers home, with a speed of 1,349.23 m / min. and defeated almost all the competition of this county, a number of 2,680 pigeons. And in the general rankings of the stage, this chick is occupying the 4th place on the whole launch, surpassing a number of 9,551 pigeons.

Eugen Stoica, winner in the fanciers’ ranking

Eugen Stoica, from Felnac locality, Arad county, is the leader of the ranking in the fanciers category within this marathon stage. He engaged a batch of 16 pigeons and ranks 11 of them. An extraordinary percentage for a marathon stage.

Eugen Stoica

This wekeend was a dream for Eugen, as he engaged pigeons in several stages simultaneously, and in the Middle distance Level race he obtained the 1,2,3,4 place on the launch and the 1st place on the general in the fanciers ranking, stage at which engaged 5 pigeons and ranked all of them. Also this weekend, he also took 2nd place in the general ranking of fanciers and 1st place in the county in the fanciers category at the Tabor Long distace stage. From here you can see the quality of the birds he owns and the skill with which these birds are prepared for the stages! The first three birds to arrive at Eugen’s loft at the Dresden marathon stage are also nominated for the team. The first bird is a cock and has the series 9001870-2018, and in the general ranking it occupies the 26th place on the launch. This cock also obtained the 6th place Long distance Palmares county in 2020 and the 13th place county Long distance ace in 2021. His father is reproduced from a hen that occupies the 5th place Palmares Long distance and the 10th place national Palmares Long distance 3 years. His mother is a hen with a Belgian ring 3037305-2016, being the niece of Rudy-Gaby Vandenabeele. The second pigeon to arrive is a hen with the series 0085010-2020, which ranked 40th at launch and is the granddaughter after father of the 1st place national Berlin Palmares 2016-2017, and her mother is an original hen Lothar Lessmeister. The third pigeon from the team is the yearling hen with the series 0086034, which occupied the 120th place on the launch, and as origins it is semi-sister to the father with the hen arrived before her, and her mother is an original hen Luc Van Coppenole. All the pigeons in this farm are flying to widowhood this season.

Emanuel Brojban from Caraş Severin, second place in the fanciers category

Emanuel Bojban

The 2nd place in the general rankings of this stage in the fanciers category is occupied by Emanuel Brojban, from Comoriște locality, Caraş-Severin county, who engaged 28 pigeons, managing to classify 15 of them. Emanuel’s pigeons, starting with the 2016 season, are prepared for stages by the widow’s method, the pigeons remaining widows throughout the season. This year, depending on the stages, he wants his pigeons to play the last two stages of the marathon in a nest position, in the natural. His first pigeon arrived at the team is also the first pigeon arrived at the aviary from this stage and is the cock with the series 0135643-2020. He occupies the 33rd place on the launch, and the blood of the 1st place Berlin county from 2018 and the 2nd place Berlin county from 2016 flows through his veins. The second pigeon arrived at the team is a hen and has the series 0135652-2020, it occupies the 73rd place on launch and is a product of two fliers, reproduced before the competition season, from pigeons with Simion Man origins from Satu Mare and Simion Manciu from Bocșa. The third pigeon has the series 0136086-2019, occupies position 109 in the general rankings and is a cock, the son of the basic breeder of this loft, Simion Man pigeon combined with Păun Novac’s pigeons from Oravița. The whole loft of Emanuel Brojban has 60-70% blood in the veins of Simion Man, with infusions from the other two pigeon fanciers mentioned above, Simion Manciu and Păun Novac.

Albert Ladislau and Bodog Danuț & Florina, winners in Arad and Bihor

In the county rankings of this stage, Arad’s winner is the yearlng hen with the series 0079738-2021, of Albert Ladislau, closely followed by the hen 0087088-2020 and the hen 0086433-2021, which occupies the 2nd and 3rd places in the county, pigeons of to his formidable colleagues, Adrian Lupulescu and Călin Ususan. Albert’s hen is a beautiful pigeon, who, according to her father, has blood DeRaw-Sablon and Gaby Vandenabeele, being a descendant of the famous Il Ragno and Super Mario, and her mother comes from Ciprian Pinczes, with national champions in the categories and Allround. A very interesting thing is that this female uncle after the father won, for the same breeder, the same Dresden marathon stage, in the 2020 season.

Albert Ladislau

We go further to the ranking of Bihor county, of this stage, where the pigeon fanciers Bodog Danuț & Florina, from Oradea, win the 1st place with their beautiful and experienced hen with the series 0805683-2020, carrying in the veins after the father blood of Nouwen Paesen and Jan Aarden, a gift from his colleague Sergiu Ciuciu, and her mother is a 100% hen Alois Stichelbaut, brought from the loft of Marius Tunduc, a hen who perfectly transmitted her eyelashes, her daughter, the county champion of this stage, being an indigo copy of his mother. In order to be able to beat all the competition in the county, this hen had to develop a speed of 1,205.92 m / min. over a distance of 784.59 air kilometers to the loft. Bodog Danuț & Florina, as a game method, practices widowhood, trains the pigeons in the morning using the flag, in the evening they fly freely, and twice a week the pigeons go to two trainings by car, at a distance of 30-35 km. The 2nd place of Bihor county at this stage is occupied by the team Bic D. + Ungur, from Sânmartin, with their cock series 0821125-2019, and on the 3rd place in the county is installed the yearling cock with series 1340275-2021, which belongs to the team Cristi Todor + Frații Ilea, from Oradea.

Tiberiu Răucsina, the first place in Satu Mare

Right from the North of the country, from Carei locality, Satu Mare county, the cock with series 0147813-2018, of Tiberiu Răucsina, overcomes the county competition, occupying the 1st county place at this Dresden marathon stage, a stage that will not be forgotten soon by Tiberiu. This cock has covered an air distance of 770 kilometers at an average speed of 1,200.31 m / min. The 2nd place on Satu-Mare county is occupied by the hen with series 0883672-2020 of the fancier Ovidiu Pop, from Viile Apei locality. This widowed hen developed an average speed of 1,171.67 m / min in flight, and had an air distance of 817.25 km to the aviary. Blood flows from Jan Aarden’s veins in this hen’s veins.
Gheorghe Donca, from Odoreu, enjoys the success at this stage of his hen with the series 0778651-2020, which developed a speed of 1,083.03 m / min., On the air distance of 797 kilometers, thus managing to occupy the third place county in the category of pigeons.