Chinese buyer bids record 1.4 million dollars for a racing pigeon’, thus, in holland CNN on its website. In our country is Armando also called the Eddy Merckx among the pigeons, in Great Britain they compare him with F1 world champion Lewis Hamilton. The British news channel BBC picked up the story and spoke with Nikolaas Gyselbrecht of the auction site PiPa. “In our wildest dreams we had that this price is not expected. We had hoped to get four to five hundred thousand euros, but dreamed only of six hundred thousand euros.”
Ingelmunster The story of recordduif Armando from grower Joël Verschoot from Ingelmunster is now also around the world. A Chinese brought at an auction a bid of 1.2 million euros for Armando. Together with the sale of its 177 other pigeons, this Joel of 2.4 million euros raised. The story was on the sites of CNN and BBC picked up.