THE COMED BIG 5

The COMED BIG 5 for OPTIMAL MOTIVATION and PERFORMANCE

THE COMED RESISTANCE SELECTION METHOD:

Pigeons that do not succeed with the COMED BIG 5 do not deserve a place in our loft!

1. Nature as the engine of performance

At Comed, we start from one fundamental insight: top performance is born from linking the seasons to natural physiology—and above all, to instinct.

With the Big 5, we support and strengthen these elements together, without forcing them. These instincts have been following the seasons for more than 3,000 years.

Like all living beings, pigeons naturally have two basic instincts: the primal drive to survive and reproduction.

Both lead to three powerful engines:

  • Territorial drive
  • Breeding and parental care
  • Pairing drive and partner bonding

These engines help determine behavior, motivation, and return speed. The COMED BIG 5 are synergistic: they reinforce one another.

As a result, they support exactly these biological mechanisms:

  • they stabilize the hormonal axes,
  • they strengthen immunity, and
  • they optimize energy metabolism so the pigeon can maximally convert instinct into performance.

The pigeons themselves adapt their physiology according to the seasons, making typical schedules unnecessary.

The annual clock follows the position of the sun, and the position of the sun determines the seasons. The seasons determine the hormones that are secreted via 5 endocrine (gland) axes. These hormones steer the pigeons’ physiology and behavior.

This is what the COMED BIG 5 respond to

2. Strategic training: training flights as a health meter

Regular, correctly dosed training flights are the heart of building condition. The foundation of top performance is not about flying more, but about flying right:

  • Over the course of his career, Willem Debruijn increasingly relied on pigeons’ ability to make fairly large kilometer jumps in the run-up to the top races. As a result of this insight, he “drove” fewer and fewer training flights.
  • Short, powerful training flights for speed
  • Regular, relaxed flights for orientation and oxygen capacity;
  • Avoiding overload during periods of molt, heat, or viral pressure.

We support this process with the COMED BIG 5 formulas that:

  • protect muscles against oxidative (damaging) stress.
  • maximize recovery after training.
  • keep natural immunity stable.

This forms the basis of the synergistic, mutually reinforcing COMED BIG 5: consistency, rest, natural support.

3. The young pigeon: a neurobiological window of development

Choosing the right type of pigeon is a crucial intervention by the fancier. The first three months determine learning capacity and future performance.

Young pigeons are sensitive:

  • their eyes are still light-sensitive (Lisocur+),
  • the feather coat is water-permeable (Stopmite, Miobol, Curol),
  • the nervous system is still fully developing (Lisocur+ Miobol),
  • the immune system is unstable (Lisocur+, Roni).

Comed supports the build-up step by step:

  • Loft recognition → orienting around the loft (Miobol, Curol)
  • Short flights → gradually longer distances (Miobol, Curol)
  • Basket habituation → stress reduction (Stopmite)
  • Immune stabilization → molt optimization

(Miobol, Lisocur+, Roni)

With the right support, youngsters develop superior spatial memory, faster muscle-recovery mechanisms, and stronger resistance to basket stress.

4. Nest motivation: the champion’s natural fuel (Miobol, Curol)

Motivation through the nest—partner, eggs, or youngsters—remains the most reliable and stable driver of performance. Comed translates this into three practical principles:

1. Natural stimulation

By showing the partner and the nest phase (the nest box is the territory + family center) at the right moment, strong, calm motivation is created.

2. These natural racing systems

Both traditional natural nest racing and widowhood are strengthened by optimal digestion, increased vitality, and a strong immune system. (Roni, Miobol, Curol…)

3. A stable balance in the hormonal axes.

Overstimulation can be counterproductive. The COMED BIG 5 support a constant, healthy hormonal response so the pigeon stays sharp without stress.

5. Performance without chemicals: sustainable sporting ethics

Forced approaches (such as blind treatment routines) should be limited because they cause:

  • harm to health, with possible long-term disruption of form,
  • hormonal dysregulation,
  • loss of reliability and reputation of the sport under increasingly green regulations driven by administrative and political authorities.

For 45+ years, Comed has proven that sustainable top performance arises precisely from:

  • natural support and supplementation
  • respect for the pigeon’s biology,
  • scientifically built synergies between organic acids, antioxidants, oils, phytonutrients, and energy complexes.

Our motto remains: minimal chemical interventions—only natural efficiency and scientific progress.

Moreover, the use of antibiotics by fanciers who still work with them has fewer downsides when the COMED BIG 5 are provided at the same time.

6. Scientific basis of the COMED BIG 5

The Comed philosophy rests on 4 pillars:

(1) Biophysiology

Understanding how muscles, brain, immune system, and hormones work together in stress, flight, recovery, and breeding motivation. Harmonious molting, strong and solid breeding results, consistent race performances.

(2) Cell protection (Lisocur+)

Oxidative stress (damaging healthy cells, DNA, proteins, and fats) is the biggest enemy of the modern racing pigeon. The COMED BIG 5 work with antioxidants, essential fatty acids, phospholipids, and cellular stabilizers—alongside all vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, trace elements, amino acids.

(3) Microbial balance (Roni!)

A stable gut flora and the right acidity are directly linked to:

  • better nutrient absorption,
  • higher resistance,
  • better stress control,
  • faster recovery after basketing and racing.

(4) Synergistic supplementation

The COMED BIG 5—Lisocur+, Miobol, Roni, Stopmite, and Curol—are designed to strengthen one another → a total approach that combines health, form, and motivation.

7. Comed in practice: fanciers who apply the schedule-free, synergistic COMED Big 5 recognize:

  • clear, smooth, and successful breeding
  • harmonious, strong growth and more regularity in young pigeons,
  • calmer and more stable motivation in nest pigeons,
  • a pronounced “peak of form”,
  • more consistent flight performance,
  • faster recovery after tough races
  • fewer health dips due to fluctuating resistance.
  • A trouble-free molt.

The result is a pigeon that, within just a few days, visibly looks better, feels better in the hand, performs better—and stays healthy longer. The path of Comed’s Resistance Selection Method:

Pigeons that do not deliver with the COMED BIG 5 do not deserve a place in our loft!

USE:

all pigeons, young, yearlings, and old, receive it all year round

so in the breeding, racing, and molting season,

every morning give 1 tablespoon (15 grams) per kilo of feed of each of the COMED BIG 5 (except on basketing day)

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