FCI standard 357

Romanian Bucovina Shepherd.

Flock guardian from the Carpathians (Bucovina province, north-eastern Romania, a transhumance region). FCI 357 utilization: guardian for flocks and an excellent watchdog; successfully used both to defend flocks and herds and as a household watchdog. Temperament: balanced, calm, loyal, likes children, a very good flock guardian, courageous and a real fighter against bear, wolf and lynx; strong low-toned bark when strangers or animals approach; at night it patrols around the household or the flock/herd. Gündemir et al. 2023: bred to guard herds of sheep and cattle. Cocostirc et al. 2023: used for herding and guarding.

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.

0INHeightdogs null, bitches 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

dogs 26.8 to 30.7 in · bitches 25.2 to 28.3 in

Breed clubFCI Standard N° 357, 2023

Ideal printed as a range, so center is blank; low and high are the printed 64 to 72 cm range.

Coat

FCI 357: head and front of legs short; body hair abundant, 6 to 9 cm, flat, straight and rough; undercoat shorter, very dense, supple and lighter; mane at the neck, fringes behind the forequarters, culottes behind the hindquarters. Classic colour clear white or white-beige with distinct grey, black or black-with-red-fawn patches; solid colours accepted but not encouraged. Brindle patches rejected. Dark-ashen skin

Breed clubFCI Standard N° 357, 2023

Heat tolerance

3 of 5 · FCI 357: body hair long (6 to 9 cm), flat, straight and rough; short undercoat, very dense and supple; long mane on the neck, fringes on the forequarters, culottes on the hindquarters; bushy tail

DerivedFCI Standard N° 357, 2023

Derived from the coat description (3 = medium double; 6 to 9 cm sits between medium and long).

The work

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

Role

Breed clubFCI Standard N° 357, 2023

FCI files the breed in Group 2, section 2.2 (mountain-type molossoids), not with the sheepdogs.

Also used on

Household watchdog in its home regions (FCI 357: used successfully as a watchdog for households); guards both sheep flocks and cattle herds (Gündemir et al. 2023)

Breed clubFCI Standard N° 357, 2023

How common the problems are

Evaluated dogs skew toward breeding stock; the numbers are still the best there are.

Most common disorders

Cocostirc et al. 2023: 25 Bucovina Shepherds from two Romanian kennels screened for the canine degenerative myelopathy SOD1:c.118G>A mutation; all 25 wild-type (G/G); first documentation of the screen in the breed

StudiedCocostîrc V, 2023

A screen of 25 dogs from two kennels; says nothing about other disorders.

How to read this page

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Also called: Ciobanesc Romanesc de Bucovina, Bucovina Shepherd, Romanian Bucovina Shepherd Dog

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