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family of Janssens are referred to as "The Blindman
Janssens" because of their origin. Piet Van Peer of
Holland is a blind fancier and has always been highly
regarded by the well informed fanciers such as John
Sampson of Massachusetts. John sent a direct son of his
last imported Van Peer Cock "448" to an auction
in New Jersey. He always said that this bloodline was
"money in the bank" so I wasn't going to leave
that auction without bringing home "Kash
Maker" the son of "448". This turned out
to be a wise decision as this cock went on to breed
winners on a regular basis.
In 2000 John sent me
"1925" a grandson of "448" to race.
The next season I put "Romeo" in the stock
loft and paired him to a newly purchased direct daughter
of Double T Lofts "Vader Chatearoux" Klak
Janssen. Among the winners they bred was
"Snowy" winner of 1st Snowy Mountain One Loft
300M and others winning at 365 miles as youngsters. I
pretty much bought whatever children were available from
"Vader Chatearoux", another daughter and 2
sons before he was finished. The pairings of these to my
Blindman line was electric winning locally and in out of
area races such as Vegas and Rocky Mountain Challenge
overall winner.
I purchased a Blindman
Janssen hen "Mama Mia" from Eddie Rodriguez
out of the old Blindman bloodlines and she is now the
mother on my Blindman family. This is a good time to
thank Eddie for the quality he sent me including
"Blindman" a gift from Eddie from the same
lines.
Eric Gioiosa, a very
good friend of mine has always been well aware of the
Blindman Janssens and had the original bloodlines in his
loft for years including "Oude Lichte". Many
very well known fanciers achieved great success with the
Blindman Janssens acquired from "Chinatown
Loft" of Eric Gioiosa and Eric never asked for or
received the credit for it. Well here it is pal, you are
in my opinion the Roger Desmet of the U.S.A. very quietly
supplying high quality foundation birds to many of the
top U.S. lofts that go on to great success with them.
Eric was aware of my
project of putting together a small high quality family
of The Blindman Janssens and allowed me to purchase his
last and top 5 Blindman stock birds from the old
bloodlines. In addition Eric and I are breeding from his
imported Blindman cock "The Stud" in one of my
individual pens. We recently added the "Tri-Bar
Hen" from Gene Greenwood's final sale.
We value these Blindman
Janssens very highly because basically they are not
available any more from the old bloodlines.
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