GUIRADO Ludovic (St Nicolas d’Aliermont, FR) : French Megastar of Barcelona 2021 !
I am maybe to young to remember it but I don’t think it happends another time that one fancier has 4 birds in
the 12 first of Barcelona International. This year Ludovic Guirado from Saint Nicolas d’Aliermont di dit :
2 nd , nrd, 4th and 12th international !!! For a few ours he was 1+2+3 Int, just before the living legend Robert
Ben clocked his Barcelona Ben 003 to take the win.
This year Ludovic played 27 birds to make 17 prizes in the first 25%. 2+3+4+12.Int and the same at national
level. But it was not the first time he played such a result. Since the 2017 Edition, Ludovic played 112 birds
and did 68 prizes (60.71%), 48 Prizes in the first 10% (42.86%), 19 in top 100 National against an average
of 3160 pigeons, an 5 times top 10 National. Here the results of the last 4 editions he could play :
2021 – 16/27 – 3639p. : 2, 3, 4, 12, 73, 86, 118, 130, 247, 350, 354, …
2019 – 17/33 – 2996p. : 21, 74, 80, 123, 128, 141, 168, 187, 213, 218, 226, 242, 263, 276, …
2018 – 22/31 – 2904p. : 1, 13, 49, 68, 70, 86, 99, 106, 115, 120, 144, 188, 192, 232, 270, …
2017 – 13/21 – 3099p. : 9, 47, 70, 103, 128, 149, 169, 215, …
Ludovic play with pigeon since 2006. On Saint Vincent International with afternoon release from 2007, he
scored his first top pirces. Since he grow and grow and is now one of the most successfull french players. On
Barcelona he is maybe the best of the last 5 years because of his capacity to be in the top even if the weather
condition are not favorable for his region. For example 2017 he was 9th National but the winning bird was
700 km at the east of his living place. So : when Barcelona is realised the french players now know that
Guirado will be in the top. The latest beginning price this 5 last editions was the 21th against 2996 birds.
His father always had birds. Not pigeons but exposition birds. He was one of the best french in his discipline
by winning also at européean and worldwide level. One day an english pigeon landed on the aviary of his
fathers birds and Ludovic called the fancier. First to inform the fancier that his bird is at his place but also to
understand why this bird have a number, a phone number, a plastic ring, etc. Since there he came nearer and
nearer to our hobby and finaly became pigeon fancier. Today 15 Jahrs later, Ludovic Guirado is part of the
first % like Vitel, Ledoux, Ben and other top lofts and well knowed names.
I asked Ludovic the question about what is for him the best front top rrelease the pigeons. He answered that
at his place, he have different lofts looking to different orientations and he never saw a difference. But what
he add is maybe much more important : what is important is how many birds you have in it. He don’t like to
have overfilled lofts. In his loft there is a lot of space for each pigeon. « Oxygene and calm… that’s what
pigeons need »
And what about feeding system ? « My system is quite easy. All the year long they have the same foof :
60% Mariman Standard Sport without barley and the 3 last weeks before Barcelona I step over to a mixture
base on 4 different sport mixture.Then they also eat all what they want and when they want to. The last days
before the Barcelona basketting there is nothing on the food and also nothing in the wather. The only other
product in the loft are at this time, the minerals but they are in the lofts from 1st Januray to 31th of
December.
What do Ludovic treat ? It depends of the result of the analysis. If the Vet thinks it is good to treat than he
treat. If there is nothing, he don’t treat. He do like that because he think that Barcelona birds have do be
strong. « At the end they have to eat maize in theire shit ».
Concerning the pigeons, I asked the question about his selektion. His answer was like follow : « One time in
my beginning years my friend Claude Herman from Halluin asked me if I want to know how I have to select
the birds. I answered that I was interrested in. He said to me : kill the bad ones, and keep the better ones. It
sounds easy but I do like that since years ».
In his breeding loft Ludovic have 10 pairs. Some of this birds are the base birds, but most of them are good
races who proved they can race in the top on Barcelona. Most of the base birds from Guirado are coming
from Notaris Jan Dons. Jan Dons was like a second father for Ludovic and his brother André Dons is still
coming every year to see the Guirado bird landing from Barcelona in Saint Nicolas d’Aliermont. Jan Dons
hat a top Barcelona collection and was also in the past a first national Barcelona winner, at Belgium level.
Through Jan Dons, Ludovic also came in contact with Jos Veulemans. From Jos he have some good pigeons
from Bils Albert bloodlines and Jos is also the owner of the mother of the 3rd Internation al Barcelona. To
fullfill his collection Ludovic also add some Deschamps Brothers birds and Robert Ben birds.
His way to do is simpel : breed, race, selekt. He raises every year +/- 80 young birds that are not played the
year they born. As yearlings they mostly go to Narbonne and from two years on they are play on Barcelona.
Method is simple « if they can they can, if they don’t can, they have to be away ». For a lot of fancier it is
more important to know how many an other fancier loose, but for Ludovic the most important is to know
how many can fly in the top. Because even if they came home from Barcelona they can be out selected to let
their place to the younger generation.
One goal, a simpel method and good selekted birds based on results and not on paper… that’s the Guirado
Style ! Sounds easy but who did better ?
https://www.francolomb.com/auctions/pre-vente-ludovic-guirado-de-st-nicolas-daliermont
Yannick UNGERER, 22/11/2021
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