Pieter Veenstra sold 245 pigeons under the hammer through the Belgian
website Pigeon Paradise, or PIPA, for well over $2.52 million, which
included the Dolce Vita hen.
The buyer for the expensive Dutch pigeon is known to be Chinese
billionaire Hu Zhen Yu, who has bought the pigeon for breeding instead
of racing. Though the trend in China shows that pigeons like these are
bought generally for racing, but the Chinese shipping magnet seems to
have thought otherwise, and breed it instead.