She came over a week ago Wendy. Phoned a couple of courier firms for quotes but Larry was going to pick her up in a weeks time.One phoned back an hour later to say their driver was in Dusseldorf and was willing to drive to Essen and collect her in a couple of hours time. Try explaining this to her breeder who speaks little English and was hunting pigs in a forest at the time that he had to take Nancy to the vets asap. I phoned Ann Gill ( Birkenwald ) who sorted everything out for us like she always does ! The company was animalcouriers and they were excellent.
Evi is now looking after her It will be interesting to see which the judges prefer!
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Is she from a completely different bloodline? I like to follow what you are doing with the breed as it is a breed I like very much. Still getting my head around the colours though
Yes she is weima, this is so we can keep to German co-efficiency levels at 0.4% in the UK which is difficult and expensive. We hope to take both her and Evi to next years zuchtshau and Nancy to junior prufungs.
As for colour it tends to be cyclic in Germany, at one time most dogs were brown or brown with a white chest. For deer work you need a camoflauge ( ! ) colour. With the northern breeders who tend to do more field work on birds they are now breeding for more white, especially on tails that can be seen more readily in thick cover which is the reason we bred for this. Scandinavian breeders also, again for camoflage when hunting grouse on tundra. This concept has now been seen as appropriate in the US as some breeders are now importing hellschimmel like Evi in the picture as stud dogs.
Another reason for importing brown was to show judges this colour again as most of the dogs we have shown lately have been brownschimmel or hellschimmel.
Colour combinations are brown ( not liver and I get very anoyed when judges write this definition in their critique ), Shorthairs and Wires in Germany are braun also. Ann Gill explained liver was chosen as a definition of the colour brown in the UK because of the inclusion of bluthund in the GSP ancestry ( liver is leber in German ).
Brown with white chest
Brown and white
White and brown ( no ticking )
Brownschimmel brown ticked
Dunkelschimmel very brown and ticked with little white
Hellschimmel white with brown patches and ticked
Forellenschimmel white ticked with no brown patches.
Heads brown with blaze and star acceptable but nearly all white head is not.
These definitions weren't accepted by the GLPC so are not in the standard.
She did look lovely yesterday and it was great to see Larry "lost for words"
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It will be interesting to see which the judges prefer!
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