International Racing Pigeon Issue nr 3 . June 2018 | Page 13

The Jan Aarden strain of Marijn van Geel developed into the best of all long distance strains in Holland. Many fanciers became very successful with his birds.

over the world have visited the breeding lofts at Hoogerheide and were unanimous that a collection like this one is seldom found and of uncommon excellence. Of course there are fanciers in the possession of a few typical Jan Aarden pigeons, but we cannot compare it with the pigeons at the breeding loft of Machiel Buijk, where tens of those birds are the guarantee for the future of the Jan Aarden strain. Those birds have perfect bodies, velvety feathers, long flexible muscles and the most fantastic imaginable coloured eyes, varying from green to gold and from purple to chestnut brown. The Jan Aarden strain still lives in all its glory thanks to the passion of Machiel Buijk a perfectionist always trying to breed birds of better and better quality, a breeder of long distance racing pigeons of exceptional quality, you only have to see the eyesign in the back of his catalogue to prove this point. Machiel Buijk is a very well respected International pigeon breeder whose aim is to own and breed the best long distance strain of racing pigeons in the world.

Author: Paul Stowell

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