DeRauw-Sablons

Attached are just a few photos of some of my DeRauw-Sablon imports which are representative of this family. If you aren’t familiar with the DeRauw-Sablons, you can find a lot of information about them online.

Several years ago, I started acquiring some outstanding, older DeRauw-Sablon imports from several sources but mainly from Frank McLaughlin to whom I am grateful. They are very closely bred to many of the famous DeRauw-Sablon champions and represent the very best bloodlines of this strain. Because of their age, I wasn’t sure how long they would continue breeding. However, over the last couple of years, I have been fortunate to raise quite a few youngsters from the original imports and also from their sons and daughters. I now have a group of, what I believe are, some of the very best of the famous DeRauw-Sablon strain.

Because I am only competing in a limited number of One Loft Races, I have far more birds than I need. So, I will be offering a number of outstanding birds over the next several weeks. This is an opportunity to get some excellent, well-bred DeRauw-Sablons. These are straight DeRauw-Sablons and are bred off of direct children of my old, foundation imports. Straight DeRauw-Sablons this close to the famous champions are getting very difficult, if not impossible, to find and these represent some of the very best bloodlines of this great strain.

The DeRauw-Sablons are a true family of birds and were developed over some 30 years through very selective inbreeding and line-breeding. They make a great cross with just about any other good family of birds. Some of the very best and well-known flyers here in the US, in Belgium, Holland, as well as a number of other countries recognized the value of the DeRauw-Sablon strain. Fanciers such as such as Marcel Aelbrecht, the late Jules Mannaert, Marc DeCock, the late Andre Verbesselt, Erik Limbourg, Freddy & Jacques Vandenheede, the late Pros Roosen, Gerard Koopman, Gaby Vandenabeele and many, many more have had tremendous success either with straight DeRauw-Sablons or by crossing the DeRauw-Sablons into their family of birds.