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About the Kazakh Tazy

Typical life span
12-14 years
Size
Medium — from its typical weight
Weight
Male
20-29 kg
Female
18-25 kg
Height
Male
60-70 cm
Female
55-65 cm
FCI status
Provisional
Origin
Kazakhstan
Known hereditary risks
Not researched yet

About

What is a Kazakh Tazy?

Ancient Central Asian sighthound with elegant, long-legged build and characteristic feathering on ears, tail, and legs. Known for exceptional speed, stamina, and endurance, developed for hunting in harsh steppe conditions.

Kazakh Tazy history and origins

Ancient sighthound developed by nomadic Kazakh tribes for hunting game such as fox, hare, badger, and wolf across vast steppes. Name 'Tazy' means 'pure' or 'noble' reflecting esteemed status. Provisionally recognized by FCI in 2024, preservation efforts ongoing.

Kazakh Tazy appearance and size

Males typically weigh 20-29 kg and stand 60-70 cm at the shoulder; females 18-25 kg and 55-65 cm.

Lo que dice el estándar de la raza

Criado para
Hunting: searching, chasing and catching game. Coursing
Comportamiento y temperamento
Temperament balanced, agile. Has a high speed of assessing the situation and making decisions. Can be a bit reserve to strangers. In everyday life - calm and unobtrusive, with a great sense of self-confidence, intolerant of maltreatment. When hunting, he is passionate, manoeuvrable, and has high speed with great endurance over long distances. Universal – combines sharp- sightedness and scent search, some can also retrieve

Quoted from FCI standard n°372. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Referencia de la raza de The Dog API.

Características

Tamaño
Medium
Necesidad de ejercicio
4 of 5
Facilidad de adiestramiento
Caída de pelo
1 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 Kazakh Tazy

Lo que obtienes con la raza Kazakh Tazy

  • Función declarada en el estándar: «Hunting: searching, chasing and catching game. Coursing»
  • El estándar describe la raza así: «Temperament balanced, agile»

Lo que asumes

  • Exige muchos cuidados del pelo — la descripción del propio estándar es «Soft, wavy hair on ears forms fringes, the so called “burka”, covering all of the ear…»

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 · Kazakh Tazy

Pelo y color

Tal como lo establece el estándar de la FCI. Cada línea de abajo está en las palabras del propio estándar, etiquetada con permissible.

Coat

Soft, smooth, closely set, short on body, about 3 cm (in loin region).

Almost without undercoat in summer.

In winter, undercoat can be well-developed.

Soft, wavy hair on ears forms fringes, the so called “burka”, covering all of the ear leather and extending 5-6 cm below it.

Feathering on the hind of the legs.

Forelegs are feathered with sparse, quite short hair up to wrist.

Hind legs feathered with longer hair up to the middle of lower thigh.

The tail is covered with longish (about 10 cm) thin feathering from approximately the middle to the tip.

Soft hair between the toes on feet.

Dogs younger 1.5 years old can be covered with fluff on forelegs up to the middle of forearms, on hind legs up to hocks, as well as on ribs and brisket.

Puppies may have slight fluff on the top of the head

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.

Color de base

Yellow, with all shades (ranging from pale fawn to red)

  • all shades of grey
  • white, black.
  • Permissible: Allowed: black overlay of different intensity, symmetrical lightening of the main colour on the limbs, belly, brisket, neck and muzzle
  • light tan markings in the usual locations
  • small white markings on muzzle, forehead, throat, chest, feet and tip of the tail
  • freckles on white markings
  • mask on muzzle (either light or dark)

Resumido de FCI standard n°372 — 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
Desirable height at the withers: males 63-70 cm, females 58-65 cm. A deviation of ±2 cm is acceptable if the proportionality and harmony of sighthounds’ build characteristic is maintained
La FCI indica una tolerancia en torno a la cifra.

Quoted from FCI standard n°372. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.

Lo que el estándar penaliza

Aquello por lo que un juez resta puntos a la raza Kazakh Tazy, y lo que la deja fuera del ring, en las palabras del propio registro. Esto describe el estándar de la raza — no es una lista de comprobación para el animal que tienes delante, y un animal de compañía con un defecto descalificante es un perro que no puede ir a exposición, no un perro enfermo.

Defectos graves

Cuentan mucho en contra de un ejemplar en el ring.

  • General appearance: Coarse or fine construction, low-legged. Lack of sexual dimorphism.
  • Head: Muzzle longer than the skull, blunt, wide at the nose; domed skull, drooping lips.
  • Pigmentation: Depigmented eyelids or the nose.
  • Eyes: Deep-set, small, looking straight ahead, yellow or grey coloured.
  • Ears: Thick, pointed at the ends, short (not reaching the corner of the mouth by more than 2 cm), pulled back, immobile.
  • Teeth: Level bite before 6 years old, absence of one or more premolars from among P2, P3, P4 in the lower jaw, unless the absence is the result of trauma.
  • Neck: Too short, set low.
  • Topline: In the form of a convex arc formed by the back and loin; not pronounced withers.
  • Chest: Shallow (not reaching the level of the elbows by more than 2 cm), short, flat. The foremost point of the sternum protrudes and forechest is developed. Belly not well tucked up.
  • Croup: Short.
  • Tail: Straight, spirally twisted, curled over the back. Kink tail. Fused vertebrae at the end.
  • Limbs: Steep pasterns. Rounded feet.
  • Coat: Curly, rough, wavy on the body. Long hair on the back, chest, belly. Complete absence of fridges on ear leathers (“burka)”. A fluff on the head of an adult dog.
  • Colour: Rich red-tan markings.
  • Size: Height at the withers for males is above 72 cm, for females above 67 cm

FCI standard n°372

Información a nivel de raza, de The Dog API. Describe la raza Kazakh Tazy en general; cualquier animal concreto puede ser distinto.

Health guide

What to ask for in a Kazakh Tazy

No breed-specific health panel has been written up for the Kazakh Tazy 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.

Puppies

No puppies listed right now

No Kazakh Tazy 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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