- 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
- Reconhecida pela 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.
O que diz o padrão da raça
- 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
- Comportamento e 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.
Referência da raça de The Dog API.
Características
- Tamanho
- Large
- Necessidade de exercício
- —
- Facilidade de treino
- —
- Queda de pelo
- 5 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 Ardennes
O que ganha com a raça Bouvier des Ardennes
- Função declarada no padrão: «Originally a true cattle dog, used to the open air and to the tough work of rounding-up, guarding and driving cattle»
- O padrão descreve a raça assim: «The Bouvier des Ardennes is a dog which shows much endurance and energy»
O que tem de assumir
- Exige muitos cuidados com o pelo — a descrição do próprio padrão é «The forearms are covered by shorter dry hair, a little shaggy, giving them a somewhat…»
- Conte com muita queda de pelo — «The undercoat is very dense whatever the season and even more abundant in winter,…»
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 Ardennes
Pelo e cor
Tal como o padrão da FCI o estabelece. Cada linha abaixo está nas palavras do próprio padrão.
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
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°171 — 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: 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”
- A FCI indica uma tolerância em torno do valor.
Quoted from FCI standard n°171. It describes the breed the registry recognises, not any individual animal.
Informação ao nível da raça, de The Dog API. Descreve a raça Bouvier des Ardennes em geral; qualquer animal em concreto pode ser diferente.
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
Ainda sem fotografias
É aqui que vão aparecer as fotografias dos próprios donos de Bouvier des Ardennes, a partir dos perfis dos animais que mantêm aqui. Ninguém acrescentou ainda nenhuma a uma página pública.
Uma fotografia num perfil de animal fica privada do seu dono. Não colocamos nenhuma aqui sem que nos peçam.
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.