BILLY
FCI-Standard N°25 / 24.04.1997. / GB
TRANSLATION : Mrs. Kincaid, brought up to date by Dr. Paschoud.
ORIGIN : France.
DATE OF PUBLICATION OF THE ORIGINAL VALID STANDARD : 28.12.1973.
UTILIZATION : Hound.
CLASSIFICATION F.C.I. : Group 6 Scenthounds and related breeds.
Section 1.1 Large sized hounds.
With working trial.
GENERAL APPEARANCE : Well constructed hound, strong, yet light; forequarters more powerful than hindquarters.
HEAD : Fairly fine, lean, of medium length.
CRANIAL REGION :
Skull : Forehead slightly domed, not very broad; occipital protuberance perceptible.
Stop : Well defined.
FACIAL REGION :
Nose : Well developed, black or red-brown.
Muzzle : Rather square. Nasal bridge fairly broad; first straight, then slightly arched, moderately long.
Lips : Slightly or not at all in form of flews, the upper lip covering the lower without overhanging fleshiness; corner of the lips often visible.
Eyes : Alert, very open and dark, eyerims black or brown.
Leathers : Of medium size, set on relatively high for a French hound, rather flat, in the lower section turning slightly inwards.
NECK : Of medium length, rather round, somewhat strong; a slight dewlap is permitted.
BODY :
Back : Rather wide, strong, slightly arched.
Loin : Wide, slightly arched.
Croup : Sloping.
Chest : Very deep, quite narrow.
Ribs : Flat.
Flank : Fairly long, with a slight tuck-up.
TAIL : Long, strong, sometimes slightly feathered.
LIMBS
FOREQUARTERS : Strong, vertical stance, flat bones.
Shoulders : Fairly long, lying close to the chest.
HINDQUARTERS :
Thighs : Moderately muscled.
Hocks : Slightly bent, wide and strong.
Feet : Well developed, rather round; toes tight.
GAIT/MOVEMENT : Gallops easily.
SKIN : White, sometimes with deep brown or almost black spots; supple and fine.
COAT
HAIR : Short, harsh to the touch, often slightly coarse.
COLOUR : Pure white or milk-cofee white, or white with light orange or lemon patches or mantle.
SIZE : For dogs : 60-70 cm.
For bitches : 58-62 cm.
FAULTS : Any departure from the foregoing points should be considered a fault and the seriousness with which the fault should be regarded should be in exact proportion to its degree.
ELIMINATING FAULTS :
- Aggressive or overly shy.
- Nasal bridge too short, too long or too slim.
- Pronounced overshot mouth; such a dog must be stristly disqualified; however a dog with a slightly overshot mouth (1/2 cm) has not to be eliminated.
- Black or red hair.
Any dog clearly showing physical or behavioural abnormalities shall be disqualified.
N.B. : Male animals should have two apparently normal testicles fully descended into the scrotum.
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ORIGIN: France
HISTORY:
The Billy be selected intercrossing between they of optimal breeds from hunting today the passings, between those used for its selection goes remembered: the Cris (dog white man orange hunter of lepri and lupi), the Montaimboeuf (Sturdy but fast hunter of wild boars and lupi), the larrye (segugio from the formidable one olfatto).
DESCRIPTION:
E' an Aesthetically very balanced, noble and distinguished, light dog but at the same time strongly.
its ransom goes from the 61 to the 66 centimeters for the males and 58 - 62 for the females. . .
Fine and dry head with rather squared snout has one; the tartufo very developed and the stop adequately marked.
The eyes are brown and very opened with a lively expression.
The orecchie are long flat and leggermente to intentional.
Ia tail slunga and strongly.
The limbs are very muscolosi, straight on appiombi and the dry grounds.
The shaved and hard hair. The accepted inks are: white man total, white man caffelatte. white man with macche orange or lemon. Eventual black spots involve the disqualification of the subject.
I USE:
E' an optimal dog from continuation, especially for the hunting to the capriolo, during the pursuit of the wild one has to bark very gradevole and extended, in order to communicate to the master the importance of the preda.
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TEMPERAMENT And CHARACTER :
Untiring, clever, brave and obedient worker, outside from the within of the hunting pu being relatively quarrelsome.
HEALTH:
Resistant dog to the diseases, pu living to the open, but in winter goes to it supplied a heated shelter, especially if it is lived in mountain.
MAINTENANCE:
It goes fed in complete way but without to exaggerate in order not to make to fatten it.
It goes very rarely brushed with one brush of setole, increasing the frequency above all during the dumb one.