March 22, 2014

Program Final week, the arrival of the Australian pigeons (video), Liberation video of the long distance pigeons

Program Final Week

We worked out a program for you for the final week of the first week of October.

Click here for the program list.

There are also 2 hotels listed that we can recommend to you.

On Wednesday evening, you can watch how we basking the pigeons for the final race.

We have planned for Thursday, the day before the final, a visit to the Mezquita or the Medina Azahara in Cordoba with a guide.

On Friday, the finale is with a full program, that will be published shortly before the final.

For Saturday you can visit the loft of the brother Ruz with barbecue and drinks. A relaxed pigeon day and also a visit to the Derby Cordoba loft and the stragglers pigeons.

Otherwise, we let each day turn of in the evening in a Spanish tapas bar, except on Friday where is the final, here we have a gala dinner planned with a show.

Arrival of the Australian pigeons

A short video about the arrival of Australian pigeons.
The pigeons were in  quarantine in Australia for 70 days and unfortunately one arrived ill, but which is maintained now to gain back a good health condition. Everything is explained in detail in the video.
The video has subtitles in English.

Liberation of the long distance pigeons on 03/16/2014

Last weekend, the pigeons of 2013, made a training race ​​of 270 km.
The pigeons racing now with the club Objetivo 1400.
Here is the video of the liberation:

Reconstruction of the loft and the webcams

The reconstruction of the loft runs in a good progress, because of that the webcams are turned off at the moment, they will be reinstalled.

Online registration form

We already have plenty of sign ups received worldwide and the first pigeons have already arrived in the loft, as already mentioned above.
Till mid-May, we take pigeons, everything else is explained in our rules, FAQ  and in the category collection point.


March 18, 2014

Long Distance Live-List Problem, Small speech from Rafael Ruz about our new product sponsor Röhnfried

On Sunday, the long distance training Live list did not work. All pigeons were read by the clock, but unfortunately the server (computer) has failed and thus could not upload the live-list on the website. The server (computer) had to be reinstalled.

Click here for the training-list from Mora Race 270 Km: http://www.derbycordoba.com/PDF/2013/Lleg_Mora.pdf

 A small speech from Rafael Ruz about our new product sponsor Röhnfried.

March 13, 2014

The first pigeons, Sponsor Röhnfried, Program final week and many more

The first pigeons

The first pigeons arrived, the Australian pigeons with 2 months in quarantine in Australia so they can be transported to Spain. A report and a video will be published in some days, about the hard work of Rafael Ruz and Jan Pearson with the Spanish and Australian authorities.

On the next week the pigeons from Canary Islands will arrive.

Product sponsor Röhnfried

Also, we now have an official product sponsor Röhnfried for the derby and the pigeons, so that they are always on the best health condition. Since the pigeon market in Kassel, Germany in 2013, we work with Röhnfried together for a health concept for the pigeons. For us it is important to build a good immune system, so that we do not even have cures the pigeons with medicines and thus prevent any disease. A strong bird is a healthy vital bird.



Program Final Week

We are working on a program for the week in which is the final. Thus, your visit is not only on 3rd October exciting when the pigeons flies the 500 km also on the other days. This program will be published next week.

Pigeons are Exposed

From the 21st June 2014, the pigeons are artificially exposed, so that we achieve a healthy good moult stood for the final on 3rd October.

Training Tosses Long Distance 2013/2014

The first training tosses have been done for the pigeons from the last year and this year they go to the long distance as a yearling at 1000 km. Click here for the race list for the long distance.


Loft rebuilding

The dovecote is currently under a reconstruction and we will publish in the next few days some photos and a video.

Online registration


Of course, you can sign up at our collection points.

A small explanation of the registration. After you have signed up you will receive a confirmation with additional information such as collection points, payment and delivery of pigeons.

Collection point

The pigeons will be picked up from the collection point with the following dates.

England: 8 April and 6 May

Belgium: 7 April and 5 May

Netherlands: 9 April and 7 May

Poland: 11 April and 9 May

Germany: 10 April and 8 May

Austria: 12 April and 10 May

Switzerland: 13 April and 11 May

The shipment is 20 Euro per pigeon, also the gratis-reserve-pigeons from the Europe collection point to the loft Derby Cordoba in Spain.

Questions and Answers (FAQ)

If you have any further questions, please read our FAQ and if you have still some questions about our Derby Cordoba, you're welcome to write an email to info@derbycordoba.com