A60--Van Oeckel Bart-Nancy凡欧克.巴特-南希

VAN OECKEL BART
1^st NATIONAL LA SOUTERRAINE 3.548 OLD BIRDS
FASTEST AGAINST 20.124 BIRDS
Oud-Turnhout: Bart Van Oeckel and La Souterraine…it seems to be big love forever because already since 2003, he scores every year again within the top of the national result. Let’s see: 36 (’03), 13 (’04), 3 (’05), 1 (06), 6 (’07), 26 (08), 11 (’09), 10 (’10) and this year  1^,  4 and 5 national! We can easily call him “Mr. La Souterraine”!
Super result when you know that Bart only started in 2001. Besides 2 national victories, our industrial baker already represented our country on the Olympiad of Poland (cat. C) with his hen “Miss Poznan”. 
System of chaos
Bart started the season 2011 with 41 pairs, which were played on widowhood. Bart: “I like a system of “chaos” and this means that I have no steady rules. The more irregularity, the more I like it. For example, before basketing, the pairs get together one week but not the other week.  Sometimes I just let them together for 2 minutes and sometimes for 2 hours or they get together on Tuesday or Wednesday but not on the day of basketing…if you know what I mean. Irregularity is regularity! When they get home, there’s no steady system either. The less they fly, the faster they are separated. Some pigeons can still be in the air, when their partner (already at home) moves to the other compartment. I want them to get the feeling, that they should hurry home to get cosy with their partner.
I must admit, that I had many lost this year. I started with 82 pigeons and at the moment there are only  54 left and hereby my system of chaos manifest itself even more. Some had to look for a new partner, so they were extra stimulated.  Sometimes the partner arrived after a few days and hereby some pigeons got an extra motivation.
THE LAST NATIONALS ON NEST
After Gueret ’10, there was a strong selection on the racing loft. The new yearlings arrived on their loft but the sexes remained separated till the beginning of April. I even started the first training lfights without the partners saw each other. The reason why I waited that long can be explained very quickly… as long as the cocks and the hens don’t get together, the hens will not pair that quickly with another hen. Once they get together, the fancier must pay attention that the hens don’t pair among each other.  After the racing team did 2 x  Quievrain, they could stay together for 5 days and then the system of chaos was on the rails. Every week middle and heavy middle distance. 
The system of food is the one from Matador and the by-products are those of Herbots. Twice a week, I also use the minerals of Mariën on the food.  On medical level, there’s a good cooperation with their vet Raf Herbots.
For the 2 last national races, the team of old and yearling birds, was separated in two groups. The first group was paired after Limoges yearlings and the second group after Bourges II. After Argenton, the first group received a youngster of 1 day, the others got a little one of 5 days last week (after Blois provincial). Well… the 1^st and 4^th national are of the second group, the 5^th national of group 1.
The winner is a wonderful blue cock, the “F16” B09-6107016. Before La Souterraine he already scored with:
5 national Bourges ’11 against 24.676 p.
10 national La Souterraine ’10 4.778 p.
63 national Gueret ’10  2.953 p.
206 national Bourges ’10   17.138 p.
216 national Argenton ’11  11.001 p.
354 national La Chatre ’11  15.780 p.
10 provincial Blois ’10   383 p.
41 semi-national Vierzon ’11   11.062 p.
58 provincial Chateauroux ’10   3.417 p.