Dark Checkered Hen – Half-Sister of “Miss Soissons” (Pitts 2024)
This dark checkered hen is a half-sister of “Miss Soissons”, winner of 9 × 1st prizes. She carries inbreeding from “Blue Princess” on the paternal side, and her pedigree includes two 1st and one 2nd National Ace Pigeon Speed KBDB.
Father: Purchase No. 4
Son of “449/14”, top breeder (now relocated to China), who produced:
297/15 – 1st / 2291, 1st / 5760 pigeons
298/15 – top breeder at Walter Lambeets’ loft (Aarschot)
483/18 – 1st / 358, 2nd / 294, 2nd / 505, 3rd / 1223 …
864/19 – 1st / 546, 1st / 2445, 4th / 302, 13th / 788 … (results as a young bird, then moved to the breeding loft)
487/20 – 1st / 784, 1st / 3339
662/21 – 5th / 654, 7th / 1095, 9th / 1190, 10th / 2244 …
291/22 – 1st / 241, 1st / 1603, 4th / 2912 …
Father is a grandson of “Blue Princess”, grandmother of the 1st National Ace Pigeon Young Birds 2019
Father is also son of the half-brother of the father of the Bourges hen of Gert Noels
Notable results of Bourges hen (5006309/24):
05/07/25 Bourges – 3/1698 (Provincial JA), 6/11056 (National JA), 8/19188 (National OU+JA)
10/05/25 Gien – 22/3101 (Provincial JA)
17/05/25 Gien – 18/4406 (Provincial JA)
24/05/25 Bourges – 167/1753 (Provincial JA), 566/17189 (National JA)
19/07/25 Sens – 20/1351 (Provincial JA), 36/2184 (Provincial OU+JA)
03/08/25 Bourges – 3/7666 (National JA), 4/12927 (National OU+JA), 17th fastest pigeon of 34,429 OU+JA+JO pigeons
Mother: “Miss Roodhooft”
Introduced as a young hen at André Roodhooft (Pulderbos), who remarked: “this hen has potential”
As a yearling and first-year old bird, she achieved:
2 × 2nd Provincial plus: 1/282 – 1/546 – 2/212 – 2/894 – 2/1595 – 3/525 – 4/885 – 4/745 – 6/209 – 7/328 – 8/2543 – 11/1441 – 14/419 – 15/4375 – 21/359 – 21/777 – 23/341 – 24/578 – 25/288 – 31/452 – 33/776 – 39/1680 – 48/717 – 58/845 – 63/1778 – 81/2156 …
Still on the breeding loft
Selected results of 583/24 (as young bird):
1/38 – 1/62 – 1/95 – 4/81 – 6/285 – 6/610 – 8/556 – 32/820 – 38/851 – 46/2075 – 81/1790 – 99/1150 – 103/2309 …