After the year 2018 could succeed at Alfred Berger birth year with top rankings and high-percentage price yield could be curious as to what would make the animals as a yearling. Alfred plays with birds and females, wherein the multi-annual remains with the respective partner in shock. The females are totally played in half, the other half, the partners will set. With 58/36 prices and locations 1 to 6, he raced in the season.

Alfred – how was the trip years in your view?

"Overall it was a very successful trip year with 11 first bankruptcies and I am very happy with the season. I went with a young team at the start, which mainly consisted of age. Only 12 two-year Animals were members of the team. The young team flew a number of peak prices, both the birds and the females. So I was able to contact the national olds ranked 12th
Hopes are with this group for the next year, of course, connected to other top places. "

What unplanned events there this year?
How did you handle it?

"The pigeons have early in the season the daily free flight a little hard done. They did not show the workout joy that I actually expected. Nevertheless, price efficiency was initially good and well connected to premium prices.
Then the team had but Monday visit to the fifth price Tour a significant hangover, which caused me to the veterinarian immediately. He noted a stronger infection of the crop mucosa. After appropriate treatment over three days training behavior was significantly improved at the house.
After the pigeons still schwächelten in sixth Flights, the treatment was repeated again over four days. This was followed by an increase, both in the top rankings as well as in percentage. Because on the seventh flight from Ueckermünde (305 km) I made the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th prize in the RV and scored in the big list 31
Prices of 43 seeded. "

What do you want to change in the next year and why?

"In any case, I will consult and in March and April often the veterinarian perform tighter controls in the course of the season."

Which pigeons are currently your top performers and
from which families they come from?

"By far the best bird of 2019 was 01868-17-481, which achieved 12 prizes and 1062.07 AS points in 13 flights with three 1st prizes in the RV. With 0498-16-1104 he has an original cock by Markus Neeb as his father. The "1104" was also set, but he only returned after five days as a year old and even after 12 days as a two-year-old. So anything but a successful travel bird. The mother of "481" herself is an autumn young hen from two top pigeons from the lines of the Olympic bird "Champ 408", "Kaiser 488" and Van de Pasch and Hardy Krüger, which were already very successful in Düsseldorf.
The two-year-old female 01868-17-577 stood out with the top prizes in June 2nd, 2nd, 4th and an additional 3rd, 13th. Her father also comes from the "old" successful line of Van de Pasch and Hardy Krüger. Her mother is a summer cub from the 0672-08-119 orig. Rudi Heinen and son of the super breeder "595" mated to the "14-249", an original Wolfgang Roeper as an egg from the "16", mated to a daughter of the "272". A year-old hen won 13/11 prizes with 944.21 AS points and flew i.a. a 3rd, 3rd, 4th, 4th, 5th, 5th, 19th, 25th, 26th etc bankruptcy. Her father is 01868-13-1249, who himself flew 13/11 prizes as a two-year-old with 879.28 AS points and a 1st, 3rd, 8th, 9th, 44th, 49th, 58th, 59th place. etc. The "1249" is a grandson of the Olympic bird "Champ 408" through his mother and a son of the 06134-11-255 original Hagedorn/Becker (grandsons "Olympiade 003" and "444" Heremans/Ceusters). Her mother is a daughter of the original Faber Vogels 0901-14-80 (son of Nations AS 655) mated to an original Markus Neeb from the top breeding pair "917" x "Pelgrim". A cousin via the mother also flew a 1st and 7th prize every year.”

Which product from the house you want Röhnfried
no longer do without and why?

"My pension plan is actually known. Take a focus Carni-speed and Rotosal one, as Moorgold, Immunbooster, Entrobac And also Avidress Plus.“

What effects could you find after you the
Products of the company Röhnfried you use?

"The beginning of the cub trip went very bad. My first pre-flight was a disaster, because more than 50 percent of the animals stayed away. After that I once must treat the boys and pauses two weeks. The final pre-flight on Tuesday ran then also not good for me. I was somewhat perplexed. , Our product manager Frederik Wolf asked me whether I did after treatment with the pigeons Rozitol would have treated. but I had not, although we always recommend it. So I took that after the evening of Vorflugs.
But as the boys also made a somewhat weary impression after the preflight, I fed the following days up to and including the assignment, in addition Rotosal, Lo and behold, my 37 boys used occupied "out of nowhere" places 1 to 16 in the list, a week later Place 1 to 10 and 30 of 38 boys won a prize.

What would you advise growers who are not yet as successful
play?

"I would always first ask where the breeder himself thinks he can improve in the 'short term'. In the event of setbacks, you should first look for the fault in yourself, because most of the time the cause lies with you and I speak from my own experience. In the case of bad flights, you shouldn't sugarcoat the reason (weather, situation, wind, etc.), but rather get to the bottom of the cause. Are the pigeons healthy? Does the punch work? And you have to try to trust yourself and your own concept.”

What vaccinations and treatments are carried out by you?

"The adult inventory is vaccinated in December against paramyxovirus. The young animals were also vaccinated against paramyxovirus and also the first time against rotavirus (flock specific vaccine). The classic young animal disease did not hit my boy this year. Nevertheless, showed a cub symptoms and I let it investigate. Although vaccinated, rotaviruses were found in the liver proliferated. A second cub that became ill after 1 Pre-flight, has also been explored so far, but no rotavirus were found. Cures I perform, if the veterinarian considers it necessary. However, I have the old birds before the flights with Ridzol treated for five days. "

Achievements in 2019

4. regional association champion

4. regional association year-old master

12-year-old national association champions

16th national champion RV Championship of the Association

04.5.19, Tarnow, km 169, 576 pigeons: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, ... 58/34 prices.
05.11.19, Demmin, 231 km, 565 pigeons: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 7th, 9, ... 57/37 prices.
06.16.19, Ueckermünde, 306 km, 422 pigeons: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, .. 43/26 prices.
07.20.19, Starogard, 398 km, 1632 pigeons. 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 33, ... 40/22 Prices
09.14.19, Ueckermünde, 305 km, 1,936 pigeons: 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ... 33/30 prices.

Alfred Berger
Germany
Tel. +49 4826 86100
berger@roehnfried.de