Benny Steveninck (Hamme) also in top performances of a very high level

You have to do it anyway, and we are talking about the fact that as a pigeon fancier you are there every year. Every season is different anyway both in terms of weather and condition of the pigeons. And yet there is that group of “top fanciers” who have it in their fingers to get their colony always in top condition at the right moment. To that group of fanciers belongs without any doubt Benny Steveninck from the East-Flemish Hamme. 

And the achieved results season 2024 prove that more than enough:

KBDB National Championships
5th National Champion KBDB large middle distance old/early 2024
6th National ace KBDB great middle distance old 2024
20th National ace pigeon KBDB great middle distance old 2024
13th Champion “Grand Prix KBDB” 2024

KBDB provincial championships
1st Provincial champion KBDB middle-distance old pigeons
3rd General provincial champion KBDB
3rd Provincial ace pigeon great middle distance old with “Ting 917-22”
4th Provincial ace pigeon (EV) middle distance old with “Zan”.
4th Provincial ace pigeon great middle distance yearling with “Jaun”
4th Provincial ace pigeon All-Around yearling with “Wen”
5th Provincial ace pigeon (EV) great middle distance yearling with “Jaro”
5th Provincial champion middle distance yearling
5th Provincial ace pigeon All-round old with “Zan”
6th Provincial ace pigeon (EV) All-round yearling with “Guca”

Main results season 2024

Nat. Bourges 25/05
Jaarse 448 Lok: 1-3-10-19-22-38-44-47-57-70  10/13

 Nat. Argenton 08/06
NAT 16547 Oude : 11-76              1 en 2 Afgegeven
Oude 269 Lok:1-3-4-14-15-16-21-29-33-42-43-45-62-75  14/14

Nat. Sancoins 23/06
Nat. 9753 Oude 9-52-88-211-223 1 en 2 afgegeven Enz.
Nat. 12958 Jaarse  30-36-238 enz.
Lok 136 oude 1-3-6-12-13-24-34-38  8/13
Lok 213 Jaarse 1-2-8-15-27-28-29-46-56-60-70  11/15 

Nat. La Souterraine
Nat. 5243 oude  39-58- 1 en 2 afgegeven 123 enz.

Nat. Bourges 28/07
Lok . 105 Jaarse 1-4-11-12-32-33  7/12

 Prov. Orleans 03/08
Lok 161 oude /jaarse 1-4-27-28-29-38-50-53  9/16  

 Bourges Nat. 10/08
Nat. 5529 oude 6- 112 enz
Nat ZOB 739 oude 1-3-21 enz.
Prov. 1106 oude 1-4-33-67-80-88-103-254  9/10
Lok 106 oude 1-2-13-15-16-19-26  8/10
Lok 165 jaarse  1-5-14-19-22-27-27-47  8/12 

Vierzon 18/8
Lok 88 oude/jaarse 2-3-4-7-8-11-12-15-18-22-23-26

 Ecouen 29/06
Hafo dender 1766 jonge  2-3-25-144-280-284-432-453-487-517   11-34

 Toury 14/07
Hafo dender ovl 5120 jonge 2-3-8-10-14-15-16-19-33-42-81-117-117-184 enz  30/59
Lok 575 jong 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-12-14-21-30-30 enz  24-59

Nat. Chateauroux 14/09
Nat. 15060 Jonge 136-199 1 en 2 afgegeven enz.  12-33

Some toppers of the racing season 2024

“Chipo”… the base cock

Building a strain, it often requires angelic patience. Searching for the right combinations, discovering one or more stock pigeons, some luck is involved. Once the train is on the right track, things can go fast, but as a fancier, you have to do everything to get your colony on this right track or read to keep it and Benny has succeeded with "cum laude".
Benny, when he puts together his breeding couples, certainly does not go about it thoughtlessly. There is clearly a tight and well thought-out "tactic" behind his breeding strategy. Everything starts with stock bird "Chipo", a cock that saw the light of day in 2003. This fantastic ace cock won as a youngster 1st Dourdan 571b.,1st Dourdan 375b., 2nd Dourdan 1,316b., 9th Dourdan 1,268b., 9th Dourdan 339b., 10th Dourdan 964b. etc... and made it to 1st Provincial Ace pigeon East-Flanders. This topper descends on the father's side from a pigeon by Sylvain Verstraete x a daughter from 1st Nat. La Souterraine (Eddy Leutenez)... on the mother's side out of a pigeon from Jozef Vandamme- Dendermonde. He also showed his class as a yearling! He won e.g. 1st Dourdan 614d., 1st Dourdan 213d., 1st Dourdan 101d., 41st Bourges 2306d., 17th Dourdan 848d., 14th Dourdan 425d., 24th Dourdan 555d., etc. Any normal fancier would immediately send this topper to the breeding loft after two successful years, but that is beyond Benny's reasoning. We are writing the year 2005 and the "Chipo" showed up again: 3rd Dourdan 217d., 7th Toury 427d., 5th Dourdan 194d., 9th Noyon 199d., etc. Meanwhile, it appeared that his sons were also starting to fly prizes of honour. More than once they were home before their father and therefore Benny decided to allocate the "Chipo" a permanent box on the breeding loft. Paired against B03-4328989 (a pure Michel Hautekiet hen), they bred pigeons in several generations that are so eager to fly in the top of the result. 
But that was only a first move in Benny's breeding strategy because as it turned out, crossing totally foreign blood on that so successful "Chipo line" turned out to be like the best butter on a thick slice of bread. It turned out to be a unique formula for success ! Especially the crossing with children of "Sagan" (1st Nat. ace pigeon speed P. Boeckx), the original English pigeons (line "Limoges" and "178") and the Wolfgang Roeper pigeons (line "Big Bos" and "241") proved to be a hit.

So concretely, close family breeding is first done with the "Chipo line" and then we talk about "half-brother x half-sister", "father x best daughter" and "mother x best son". Importantly, the youngsters from these pairings are strictly selected and these inbred pigeons are then crossed with totally foreign blood. 

 

Good racers go to the breeding loft after 3 years of flying. A breeder gets 3 years of credit for giving birth to good offspring otherwise he can leave. 

We would like to introduce... 
"Pepperal" and his son "Pepchi" 
Let's start with "Pepperal". "Pepperal" (NL12-1077051) is an original Gerard Koopman cock. "I wanted to acquire something from this great Dutch champion and asked him to select a youngster. We met at the fair in Kortrijk and there I was allowed to put cock "Pepperal" in my basket. "Pepperal" was a son of "Mister Allennig" (won a/o 1st NPO Blois 7,541d.) x "Half-sister Jerson" ("Jerson" was Olympiad pigeon). As already explained, my breeding strategy is to pair "foreign blood" against "inbred Chipo" and "Pepperal" was paired against "Daughter Chipo". It was instant bingo and one of their top sons was "Pepchi". 
"Pepchi" B14-4059809 won, among others:
1st Ace Pigeon Ranking over 6 national flights KBDB 
7th National ace pigeon KBDB 2016.
1st Nat. Chateauroux 2,762b.
7th Nat. Montluçon 16,982b.
16th Nat. Tours 24,097b.
25th Argenton 9,228b.
But "Pepchi" is also of golden value in the breeding loft. For example, he is the father of "Nuo". "Nuo" won 1st Prov. Chateauroux 2,809d this season, among others. - 1st Nat (z) Chateauroux 1,512d. - 54th Nat. Chateauroux 13,096d. - 3rd Toury 1,015d. - 5th Noyon 145d. - 10th Chateauroux 1,512d. 
Other children of "Pepchi" won a.o: 102nd Nat. Argenton 13,393d. - 1st Toury 490d. - 1st Argenton 168d. - 2nd Chateauroux 291d. - 6th Toury 2,384d. - 10th Chateauroux 1,512d. - 11th Toury 4,146d.

A half-sister to the famous "Pepchi" is "Yun 820". "Yun 820" (B21-4074820) was born into a winning family and this is abundantly clear from her performance. Her record stands out with top results such as: 

1st KBDB Ranking Great middle distance yearling 6 flights 2022
9th Nat. ace pigeon Great middle distance yearling KBDB 2022 
6th Provincial Ace Pigeon Long Distance Young Pigeons KBDB 2021. 
25th nat. Chateauroux 5,720 d.
36th nat. La Souterraine 14,315 b.
62nd nat. La Souterraine 6,761b.
118th nat. Guéret 12,208b.
131st nat. Bourges 10,366b.
272nd nat. Argenton 12,938b.
2nd Chateauroux 230b.
4th Ecouen 722b.
5th Orleans 1204b.
19th Sermaises 746b.
36th Chateauroux 4164b,
126th Vierzon 7422b. etc.

National KBDB ace pigeon "Sun" 
In 2013, the flight programme for the young pigeons included not 4 but 7 national races and to qualify as a national ace KBDB young pigeon, one had to win not 3 but 4 top prizes. "Sun" won the following KBDB titles that season:
1st National ace pigeon KBDB national flights young pigeons (with 4 prizes)
1st Provincial ace KBDB young pigeons
2nd Ace pigeon Europacup Dortmund '13
1st Provincial La Souterraine 3,343d. - 22nd Nat. 13,089b.
3rd Provincial Argenton 3,942b.
7th Provincial Chateauroux 2,759b. - 118th Nat. 12,071d.
44th National Bourges 18,478d. 
Despite many requests from foreign fanciers, "Sun" was not sold and is still in the breeding boxes with Carine and Benny. "Especially in 2nd generation "Sun" brings out toppers". A yes... "Sun" was bred from "Grandson Chipo" x "Daughter Chipo". So the "inbred products Chipo" also perform very strongly. "Sun" is the ideal hen to cross with "foreign blood". The ideal hen to follow Benny's favourite breeding strategy. 

Especially the cross with well-known PEC cock “Porsche 911” (B14-2230911) proved to be more than a hit. 
Thierens Danny & Tom won the 1st National Poitiers against 10,574 yearlings, also the fastest of 19,589 pigeons. Grandfather “B18-4194649” is a son out of “Porsche 911” x “Sun”.

Now on internet auction Pigeon Bids, Benny offers a small but strictly selected group of topbirds! All pigeons bred from proven breeding lines!

This auction ends wednesday 27 November at 2 p.m. (c.e.t.)