Achiel
M
Buijk
There are many lofts that have found fame based on the Jan Aarden pigeons however whilst most of these lofts have excellent birds, hardly anyone kept the Jan Aarden pigeons pure, the lofts of Machiel Buijk are a rare exception. Nearly all these lofts have very nice pigeons, but 99 % of them are crossed with other strains other than the pure Jan Aarden strain. At the breeding lofts of Machiel Buijk in Holland there are only pure Jan Aarden pigeons of superior quality and outstanding eyesign admired by all who see them and they are bred from the best lines of the world famous Jan Aarden long distance strain of Marijn van Geel
Machiel Buijk, is now 67 years old, and started in the pigeon fancy in 1970. He was born and still lives in the neighbourhood of Steenbergen, the little city where Jan Aarden and many of his successors lived and from the beginning of his career Machiel was only fascinated by long distance pigeons. When he was 18 years old, Machiel fell in love with his wife Mimi, but at the same time he fell in love with the beautiful strong Jan Aarden pigeons and he wanted
The treasurer of the Jan Aarden strain
only the very best Jan Aarden pigeons he could find. After being a pigeon fancier for 10 years, Machiel started working for pigeon magazines in Belgium and Holland. In those days he visited many lofts in Europe and bought many excellent pigeons from those champions since Machiel only wanted the best Jan Aarden pigeons and bought them from several lofts, such as Antoon Aarden, Lazeroms, Sprenkels, Vroegindeweij, Van der Wegen, and last but not least from Marijn van Geel from Nieuw Vossemeer.
Machiel Buijk was from a younger
generation than the famous
long distance
champions
of those
days.
but that did not stop him from visiting them many times. Throughout the years Machiel studied the Jan Aarden pigeons and found out, that the pigeons of Marijn van Geel were the