- All colours are acceptable except white and the colour of the undercoat varies according to the shade of the top coat.
- A white mark on the chest or the tips of the toes is acceptable without being sought after.
- The coat is often formed from a mixture of grey, black and fawn hairs
- a grey coat going from pale grey to dark grey
- a brownish, red or straw coloured coat
About the Bouvier des Ardennes
Origin: Belgium
- Typical life span
- 10-12 years
- Size
- Large — from its typical weight
- Weight
- Male
- 27-34 kg
- Female
- 23-29 kg
- Height
- Male
- 56-61 cm
- Female
- 52-56 cm
- FCI status
- Reconocida por la FCI
- FCI group
- Sheepdogs and Cattledogs (except Swiss Cattledogs)
- Origin
- Belgium
- Also called
- Boyero de Las Ardenas
- Known hereditary risks
- Not researched yet
About
What is a Bouvier des Ardennes?
Medium-sized, hardy and rustic herding dog from the Belgian Ardennes, characterized by a harsh, shaggy double coat, robust build, and impressive endurance with a courageous temperament
Bouvier des Ardennes history and origins
Ancient Belgian herding breed from the Ardennes region, traditionally used to drove cattle and pigs. Nearly extinct after the World Wars due to mechanization of farming but successfully revived by enthusiasts in the late 1980s
Bouvier des Ardennes appearance and size
Males typically weigh 27-34 kg and stand 56-61 cm at the shoulder; females 23-29 kg and 52-56 cm.
Lo que dice el estándar de la raza
- Criado para
- Originally a true cattle dog, used to the open air and to the tough work of rounding-up, guarding and driving cattle. Even today with a minimum of training for maximum efficacity, it is a good all-purpose working dog and a specialised guard of stock and property
- Comportamiento y temperamento
“The Bouvier des Ardennes is a dog which shows much endurance and energy. It is playful, curious, agile and sociable and its main quality is its adaptability, so that it feels at ease in every situation. It is obstinate and extremely courageous when it comes to defending its people, its belongings and its territory”
Quoted from FCI standard n°171. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Referencia de la raza de The Dog API.
Características
- Tamaño
- Large
- Necesidad de ejercicio
- —
- Facilidad de adiestramiento
- —
- Caída de pelo
- 5 of 5
- Cuidados del pelo
- 4 of 5
- Convivencia con niños
- —
- Coste de mantenimiento
- —
- Tolera quedarse solo
- —
- Inteligencia
- —
- Salud de la raza
- Not researched yet
Pros & cons
Pros y contras de la raza Bouvier des Ardennes
Lo que obtienes con la raza Bouvier des Ardennes
- Función declarada en el estándar: «Originally a true cattle dog, used to the open air and to the tough work of rounding-up, guarding and driving cattle»
- El estándar describe la raza así: «The Bouvier des Ardennes is a dog which shows much endurance and energy»
Lo que asumes
- Exige muchos cuidados del pelo — la descripción del propio estándar es «The forearms are covered by shorter dry hair, a little shaggy, giving them a somewhat…»
- Cuenta con mucha caída de pelo — «The undercoat is very dense whatever the season and even more abundant in winter,…»
Extraído de fuentes y no escrito como opinión — investigación de salud citada, el estándar del propio registro, y estudios de longevidad revisados por pares. Estándar de la raza, FCI. Los animales de un criador pueden diferir de todo esto, y una columna vacía significa que no tenemos nada de ese lado, no que no haya nada que decir.
Characteristics
Estándar de la FCI · Bouvier des Ardennes
Pelo y color
Tal como lo establece el estándar de la FCI. Cada línea de abajo está en las palabras del propio estándar.
Coat
The coat must allow the dog to live outside, to guard and drive herds, however extreme its local atmospheric conditions may be.
The topcoat must be dry, coarse and tousled, about 6 cm long over all the body but shorter and flatter on the skull, even with the presence of eyebrows.
The hair must form a moustache and a little beard about 5-6 cm long and hide the internal corner of eye.
The forearms are covered by shorter dry hair, a little shaggy, giving them a somewhat cylindrical aspect with the addition of short fringes on the back of the limbs.
The back of the thighs has longer hair making the breeches.
The outer side of the ears is covered with soft straight short hair with occasional longer hairs.
The auditory canal is protected by longer hairs which blend with those from the collar effect of backward sloping hairs around the neck.
The spaces between the pads are filled with very short hairs.
The undercoat is very dense whatever the season and even more abundant in winter, protecting the dog from extremes of weather.
It is also present on the limbs.
Its length is about half that of the top coat
Color
- Preferred
- Permissible
- Undesirable
- Disqualifying
«Preferred», «permissible», «undesirable» y «disqualifying» — preferido, admisible, indeseable y descalificante — son las palabras de la propia FCI sobre la raza, y quedan en inglés porque así constan en el estándar. Describen lo que el estándar pide — no son una valoración de ningún perro concreto, ni nuestra.
Resumido de FCI standard n°171 — cada etiqueta está en las palabras del propio estándar, con el veredicto pasado a la etiqueta de al lado. Lee la cláusula completa en la fuente.
Lo que dice el estándar de la raza
- Tamaño
- “Height at withers: 56 - 62 cm for males. 52 - 56 cm for females. With a tolerance of plus or minus one centimetre. Weight: 28 - 35 kg for males. - 28 kg for females”
- La FCI indica una tolerancia en torno a la cifra.
Quoted from FCI standard n°171. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Información a nivel de raza, de The Dog API. Describe la raza Bouvier des Ardennes en general; cualquier animal concreto puede ser distinto.
Health guide
What to ask for in a Bouvier des Ardennes
No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Bouvier des Ardennes 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
Todavía sin fotografías
Aquí es donde irán las fotografías de los propios dueños de Bouvier des Ardennes, desde los perfiles de sus animales que mantienen aquí. Nadie ha añadido ninguna a una página pública todavía.
Una fotografía en un perfil de animal queda privada de su dueño. No pondremos ninguna aquí a menos que nos lo pidan.
Puppies
No puppies listed right now
No Bouvier des Ardennes 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.