- The Bouvier des Flandres’ coat is usually grey, brindle or overlaid with black.
- A completely uniform black, without being favoured
- Light-coloured, so-called washed-out coats are not acceptable.
- Permissible: A white star on the chest
About the Bouvier des Flandres
Origin: Belgium, France
- Typical life span
- 10-12 years
- Size
- Large — from its typical weight
- Weight
- 32-50 kg
- Height
- Male
- 62-70 cm
- Female
- 60-67 cm
- FCI status
- Reconhecida pela FCI
- FCI group
- Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs)
- Origin
- Belgium, France
- Also called
- Boyero de Flandes
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What is a Bouvier des Flandres?
Large, powerfully built herding dog with a rugged appearance and rough, tousled double coat. This compact breed gives the impression of great strength without heaviness and has a dense weather-resistant coat suited for farm work.
Bouvier des Flandres history and origins
Developed by monks in the Flanders region of medieval Europe as cattle herding and all-purpose farm dog. Used to drive cattle, pull carts, and serve as a watchdog. Nearly extinct after World War I but revived by dedicated breeders.
Bouvier des Flandres appearance and size
Males typically stand 62-70 cm at the shoulder and females 60-67 cm.
O que diz o padrão da raça
- Criado para
- Originally the Bouvier des Flandres was used as a herding dog, as a draught dog and as churning dog. The modernisation of farm equipment has affected these first tasks and nowadays the Bouvier des Flandres is above all used as a guard dog for the estate and the farm, as a defence and police dog. Its physical and behavioural aptitudes, its great qualities of scent, initiative and intelligence warrant its use as a tracking dog, a messenger dog and a gamekeeper’s dog. FCI-CLASSIFICATON: Group 1 Sheepdogs and Cattle dogs (except Swiss Cattle dogs). Section 2 Cattle dogs (except Swiss Cattle dogs). With working trial
- Comportamento e temperamento
“The Bouvier des Flandres has the calm, thoughtful character of a sensible, but fearless dog. Its lively look indicates intelligence, energy and audacity. It is essential that the Bouvier des Flandres should retain its aptitude for work. Any change which could harm this must be penalised”
Quoted from FCI standard n°191. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Referência da raça de The Dog API.
Características
- Tamanho
- Large
- Necessidade de exercício
- —
- Facilidade de treino
- —
- Queda de pelo
- 4 of 5
- Cuidados com o pelo
- 4 of 5
- Convivência com crianças
- —
- Custo de manutenção
- —
- Tolera ficar sozinho
- —
- Inteligência
- —
- Saúde da raça
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Prós e contras da raça Bouvier des Flandres
O que ganha com a raça Bouvier des Flandres
- Função declarada no padrão: «Originally the Bouvier des Flandres was used as a herding dog, as a draught dog and as churning dog»
- O padrão descreve a raça assim: «The Bouvier des Flandres has the calm, thoughtful character of a sensible, but fearless dog»
O que tem de assumir
- Exige muitos cuidados com o pelo — a descrição do próprio padrão é «The inner part of the ear flap is protected by medium long hair.»
Retirado de fontes e não escrito como opinião — investigação de saúde citada, o padrão do próprio registo, e estudos de longevidade revistos por pares. Padrão da raça, FCI. Os animais de um criador podem diferir de tudo isto, e uma coluna vazia significa que não temos nada desse lado, não que não haja nada a dizer.
Characteristics
Padrão da FCI · Bouvier des Flandres
Pelo e cor
Tal como o padrão da FCI o estabelece. Cada linha abaixo está nas palavras do próprio padrão, etiquetada com permissible.
Coat
The coat is very abundant, the outercoat forming with the dense undercoat a protective layer perfectly adapted to the sudden climatic changes in this breed’s native land.
The hair must be coarse to the touch, dry and matt, neither too long nor too short (about 6 cm.), slightly tousled but never woolly or curly.
Shorter on the head and very short on the outside of the ears.
The inner part of the ear flap is protected by medium long hair.
The upper lip carries a moustache and the chin a full beard, giving the forbidding expression so typical of this breed.
The eyebrows consist of raised hairs, accentuating the shape of the superciliary ridges without ever veiling the eyes.
The coat is particularly harsh and rasping on the upper part of the back.
It shortens very slightly on the limbs but remains harsh.
A flat coat should be avoided because it denotes a lack of undercoat.
The undercoat is a padding made up of fine dense hair which grows beneath the outer coat and together with the topcoat it forms a waterproof covering
Cor
- Preferred
- Permissible
- Undesirable
- Disqualifying
«Preferred», «permissible», «undesirable» e «disqualifying» — preferida, admissível, indesejável e desqualificante — são as palavras da própria FCI sobre a raça, e ficam em inglês porque é assim que constam do padrão. Descrevem o que o padrão exige — não são uma avaliação de nenhum cão em concreto, nem nossa.
Resumido de FCI standard n°191 — cada etiqueta está nas palavras do próprio padrão, com o veredito passado para a etiqueta ao lado. Leia a cláusula completa na fonte.
O que diz o padrão da raça
- Tamanho
- “Height at withers: 62-68 cm for males, 59-65 cm for females, with a tolerance of plus or minus 1 cm. For both sexes the ideal size is the middle range, i.e. 65 cm for males, 62 cm for females. Weight: approximately 35 - 40 kg for males 27 – 35 kg for females”
- A FCI indica uma tolerância em torno do valor.
Quoted from FCI standard n°191. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
O que o padrão penaliza
Aquilo que faz um juiz descontar pontos à raça Bouvier des Flandres, e o que a põe fora do ring, nas palavras do próprio registo. Isto descreve o padrão da raça — não é uma lista de verificação para o animal que tem à frente, e um animal de companhia com um defeito desqualificante é um cão que não pode ir a exposição, não um cão doente.
Defeitos graves
Contam fortemente contra um exemplar no ring.
- Timid dog.
- Molossoid appearance, too heavy a dog.
- Body obviously too long (slight tolerance for females) or too light.
- Too massive a head, marked stop, pronounced frontal groove, very prominent zygomatic arches.
- Domed skull, narrow skull, very prominent occipital crest, important lack of parallelism between the toplines of skull and muzzle.
- Muzzle too long, pinched nose.
- Loose, thick or overlapping lips.
- Wry jaw; malocclusion.
- Small, unhealthy or poorly set teeth.
- Light eyes, bulging eyes, untypical expression.
- Uncropped ears which are curled or folded.
- Cylindrical neck, dewlap.
- Back very sagging, very arched.
- Very faulty stance, obviously camped stance, sickle hocks.
- Silky coat, lack of undercoat, puffed up coat, shiny, over- groomed.
- Lack of head furnishings.
- Simultaneous faults in pigmentation (nose, lips, eyelids)
Defeitos desqualificantes
Põem o animal fora do ring por completo.
- abnormalities.
- Obvious lack of type.
- Unpigmented nose or of any colour other than black.
- Pointed muzzle.
- Pronounced over- or undershot bite.
- Any missing teeth other than one P1.
- Wall eyes or wild expression.
- Entropion, ectropion, unpigmented eyelids.
- Coat chocolate brown, white, pepper and salt, washed-out colour and any other pale fawn going from light to red, even with black overlay.
- Height at withers outside the range of the standard
Informação ao nível da raça, de The Dog API. Descreve a raça Bouvier des Flandres em geral; qualquer animal em concreto pode ser diferente.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Bouvier des Flandres
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Bouvier des Flandres 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
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Puppies
No puppies listed right now
No Bouvier des Flandres 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.