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About the Beauce Sheepdog

Origin: France
FCI status
Recognised by FCI
FCI group
Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs)
Origin
France
Also called
Pastor de Beauce
Known hereditary risks
Not researched yet

About

What the breed standard says

Bred for
Sheepdog and Guard Dog
Behaviour and temperament
“Frank approach and self- assured. The expression is candid, never mean timid or worried. The character of the Beauceron should be gentle and fearless”

Quoted from FCI standard n°44. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Characteristics

Size
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Exercise needs
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Easy to train
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Amount of shedding
3 of 5
Grooming needs
2 of 5
Good with children
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Cost to keep
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Tolerates being alone
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Intelligence
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Health of breed
Not researched yet

Pros & cons

Pros & cons for the Beauce Sheepdog

What you get with the Beauce Sheepdog

  • Purpose stated in the standard: “Sheepdog and Guard Dog”
  • The standard describes the breed as: “Frank approach and self- assured”
  • Low grooming needs, fitting for a busy owner — the coat is “Smooth on the head, short, thick, firm and lying close to the body, 3 to 4 cm in length.”

What you are taking on

Nobody has written this side yet. It is a judgement rather than data, so it waits for a person — not for a missing source.

Drawn from sources rather than written as an opinion — cited health research, the registry’s own standard, and peer-reviewed longevity. FCI breed standard. One breeder’s animals can differ from any of it, and an empty column means we hold nothing for that side rather than that there is nothing to say.

Characteristics

FCI standard · Beauce Sheepdog

Coat and colour

As the FCI standard sets it out. Every line below is the standard’s own wording, tagged permissible.

Coat

Smooth on the head, short, thick, firm and lying close to the body, 3 to 4 cm in length.

The buttocks and the underside of the tail are lightly but obligatorily fringed.

The undercoat is short, fine, dense and downy, preferably mouse grey, very close, and can’t be seen through the top coat

Colour patterns

  • Preferred
  • Permissible
  • Undesirable
  • Disqualifying

Preferred, permissible, undesirable and disqualifying are FCI’s own words about the breed. They describe what the standard asks for — not an assessment of any individual dog, and not ours.

Black and tan (Black with tan markings)

Base colour

“red stockings”

  • The black is pure black and the tan, red squirrel coloured.
  • The tan markings are distributed as follows: • Spots over the eyes. • On the sides of the muzzle, diminishing gradually on the cheeks, never attaining under the ear. • On the chest, preferably two spots. • Under the neck. • Under the tail. • On the legs, disappearing progressively while rising, without covering in any case more than 1/3 of the leg and rising slightly higher on the inside.

Harlequin (blue-mottled with tan markings)

  • grey, black and tan, the coat being black and grey in equal parts, the spots well distributed, with sometimes a predominance of black.
  • The tan markings are the same as for the black and tan.
  • Permissible: A faint while spot on the chest

Shortened from FCI standard n°44 — each label is the standard’s own wording with the verdict lifted into the tag beside it. Read the full clause at source.

What the standard penalises

What a judge marks the Beauce Sheepdog down for, and what puts one out of the ring, in the registry’s own words. This describes the breed standard — it is not a checklist for the animal in front of you, and a pet with a disqualifying fault is an unshowable dog rather than an unhealthy one.

Disqualifying faults

Puts an animal out of the ring altogether.

  • Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural.
  • Size outside the standard limits.
  • Too light-boned.
  • Eyes too light, or wall eyes (except for harlequins).
  • Split nose, of a colour other than black, with unpigmented areas.
  • Overshot or undershot with loss of contact, absence of 3 or more teeth (the first premolars not counting).
  • Natural ears carried totally upright and firm.
  • Rear feet turned excessively to the exterior.
  • Simple dewclaws or absence of dewclaws on hind legs.
  • Shortened tail or tail carried over the back.
  • Coat: Colour and texture other than those defined by the standard. Complete absence of tan markings. Shaggy coat. Well defined, quite visible white spot on chest. For the harlequin variety: too much grey, black on one side and grey on the other, head entirely grey (absence of black)

FCI standard n°44

Breed-level information from The Dog API. It describes the Beauce Sheepdog in general; any individual animal can differ.

Health guide

What to ask for in a Beauce Sheepdog

No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Beauce Sheepdog on this platform yet. That is a gap in our records, not a clean bill of health — ask the breeder which hereditary conditions their lines are tested for, and ask to see the results for both parents, dated and from a named laboratory.

Gallery

No photographs yet

This is where Beauce Sheepdog owners’ own photographs will go, from the pet profiles they keep here. Nobody has added one to a public page yet.

A photograph in a pet profile stays private to its owner. We will not put one here unless they ask us to.

Puppies

No puppies listed right now

No Beauce Sheepdog breeder has a record on this platform yet, so there is nothing to list. That is a gap in our coverage, not a fact about the breed.

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