Deutsche Bracke.

FCI 299: utilization 'Hound' (Group 6 Scenthounds, Section 1.3 small-sized hounds, with working trial); a lean, light, high-stationed hunting dog. Jagdfibel (and Wild und Hund): suited to tracking work before and after the shot, as the all-round forest working dog (Waldgebrauchshund); today mostly worked before the shot on large-area drives (Bewegungsjagden). Wild und Hund: some are worked only on blood trails. Wikipedia EN: usually hunted singly as a leash hound on smaller areas, and in packs on grounds of at least 1,000 ha per the breed club..

Breed sets the odds. The parents set the dog. Every number here shows its source, its spread and how sure we are. Nothing on this page is a prediction about one dog.

0INHeightall null. An ideal from the standard, not a range.

The body

What the breed is built like. Registry standards give an ideal, not a range.

Height at the shoulder

15.7 to 21 in

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1997

FCI and UKC print no sex split and no ideal, so no center; low and high span the FCI and UKC ranges (15.7 in FCI low, 21 in UKC high). Wild und Hund and Jagdfibel figures sit inside the registry range.

Coat

FCI 299: long for a short-haired dog, very dense, hard, almost bristly; red to yellow with a black saddle or blanket and the white Bracken markings (blaze, white muzzle with neck ring, white chest, legs and tail tip). Faults: chocolate, particolour. UKC agrees (red through yellow, black blanket, Bracken markings). Jagdfibel: whiskers and claws are always white. Wild und Hund: hare-coloured to roe-red, nose leather two-toned.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1997

FCI 299, UKC, Jagdfibel and Wild und Hund agree on the coat.

Heat tolerance

4 of 5 · Short coat that is long for a short-haired dog, very dense, hard, almost bristly; well coated on the belly, a moderate brush on the underside of the tail, breeches on the thighs (FCI 299). UKC: dense, hard and bristly. Wild und Hund: close-lying dense smooth coat.

DerivedFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1997

Derived from the standard's coat description (short dense = 4). No measured heat data.

The work

What it was built to do in the field, and what a test or trial asks of it.

Role

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1997

The FCI utilization line is the one word 'Hound'; the detail is editorial (Jagdfibel, Wild und Hund, Wikipedia). Not a FCI Section 2 leash/blood hound; the Deutsche Bracke is a Section 1.3 hound that is also taken on blood trails.

Primary game

Wild und Hund (2004): all running game on drives (Stöberjagd), hoofed game and above all wild boar on large-area drives; historically hare and fox. Wikipedia EN: today usually used to hunt deer, also rabbits and fox. Wikipedia DE: the main use today is Stöberarbeit on hoofed game, since hare and fox brackieren is rarely done under German hunting law.

Breed clubHartmut Roth, 2004

UKC is silent on game; the FCI standard names none. Game lists are editorial (Wild und Hund, both Wikipedias).

Also used on

Hare, fox and rabbit (Wild und Hund; Wikipedia EN); blood-trail (Schweiß) work on wounded hoofed game after the shot, with some dogs worked only on Schweiß (Wild und Hund; Jagdfibel).

EditorialHartmut Roth, 2004

Editorial; the German hunting press and Jagdfibel.

Search pattern

Hound that gives tongue on the track (Fährtenlaut): Wild und Hund (2004) calls loose trail voice paired with a good nose and an excellent sense of direction the breed's hallmark; the dog is expected to keep contact with its handler and not hunt wildly. Hunters read the voice to learn where the dog is and what it is following. Wikipedia EN: single hunting as a leash hound on small grounds, packs on larger ones. The old Brackade hunt: hounds follow game while voicing cries that tell the hunter position and quarry.

EditorialHartmut Roth, 2004

Voice-on-the-line is the Bracken tradition per Wild und Hund and Wikipedia EN. No registry text states it; marked editorial.

Field trial standard

FCI 299: 'with working trial'. The breed club (Deutscher Bracken-Club) oversees breeding and hunt testing; Wild und Hund (2009, on the Westphalian Dachsbracke, same club) says breeding needs an aptitude (Anlagen) or use test, a conformation grade of at least 3, and a gunproof dog. Wikipedia EN: the club oversees breeding and hunt testing.

Breed clubFederation Cynologique Internationale, 1997

Test rules (Prüfungsordnung) not read; the breeding requirement is from the 2009 Wild und Hund article about the club's dachsbracke, stated there for 'all Bracken and Dachsbracken' of the club.

No KENAI kennel lists the Deutsche Bracke yet. If you breed them, list your kennel free: it shows on this page and in the hunting dog breed finder, under every handler whose answers land on the breed.

How to read this page

Every value carries a label. Measured means peer-reviewed data on many dogs. Studied means peer-reviewed, smaller or indirect. Breed club means a club or registry states it. Editorial means expert opinion with no measurement behind it. Where two good sources disagree, both are shown and neither is averaged.

Published when the entry rests on the best information available from no fewer than three independent sources, checked by a second pass that did not write it. 2 sources on this page. Found something wrong? Tell us and the correction is logged with its date.

Also called: German Hound, German Bracke, Olper Bracke, Sauerländer Bracke, Westphalian Bracke

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