Welcome to the cervelines de Bréviande
Born in a family from hunters with the pointer, since always I lived in the middle of the dogs, my grandparents were rather carried towards the English Setter; the adoption of a bitch Gordon setter given up with the SPA, was going to decide some differently for what relates to me: gradually, the meeting of impassioned and adhesion with the RASG which was followed from there one make that of a finger, in fact finally the arm “passed in the gears " I discovered the fields-trials and the exhibitions and nothing today could decide to me to only give up this enthralling race is the Gordon Setter. I accepted in addition, the responsibility for delegated RASG for departments 37.49 and 72.
NB: this site is in construction, it will be packed in the course of time, thank you for your comprehension.
dedication
Why cervelines de Bréviande?
The cerveline is a variety of large heather, 1 to 2 meters in height, very common with the gorses and the brooms to brushes on the moors with the acid grounds of the North-West of Touraine in extreme cases of Anjou. This cerveline is useful since always covering the “cabins” kinds of large rectangular huts, being used today as hangars, with the framework made up of poles of châtaigner and whose origin goes back in Andecaves and Turons, first Celtic inhabitants of the area. Cervelines resulting from the moors of Bréviande, located on the moors of Ambillou, and Souvigné, where I was born, are most famous for the cover of these “cabins”, the name of Bréviande comes from "brève viande" (“short grazes”), thin sustenance, (of Latin vivanda, which is used to live) what in known as length on the richness of the ground of it country! The inhabitants of these moors did not have of another solutions lasting of the centuries to survive to have recourse to hunting (and thus with the poaching!) what explains certainly the passion which animates them still today, the area remaining a paradise for the hunters of small and especially of big game. These landscapes of moors and forests, undulating, strewn with many ponds and marshes form a territory having much similarity with the moors of Scotland, the Gordon setter is thus adapted perfectly to hunting on these territories
landscape of Gâtine From the Touraine
in October, meets current in our moors and our wood (without forgetting on the roads!!!)
a bond to know some a little more about the area:
https://www.centre.ecologie.gouv.fr/atlas/atlas_indre_loire/Module%20N%C2%B0%202/Unit%C3%A9s%20paysag%C3%A8res/2%20le%20croissant%20bois%C3%A9.PDF
standard of the Gordon Setter
| The standard of the race |
General aspect
It is a dog which has class, built for
the gallop, aspect in keeping with its construction which points out
that of a hunter (hunter), able to carry weight. Conformation must be
harmonious of all shares
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Characteristics Intelligent, able, full with dignity
Temperament
Bold, sociable, of a nice and calm naturalness
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- The head
is higher than broad, but broader than the muzzle with a well developed
brain-pan. The skull is slightly round; it is between the ears that it
is broadest
- The stop is clearly marked and occiput with the stop outdistances it is larger than that of the stop to truffle
- The areas
located under the eyes and above eyes are dry and the cheeks as not
very charged as the dryness of the head allows it. The muzzle is long
with almost parallel lines. It is neither pointed, nor out of whistle
- The lips are not hanging; the edges are clearly drawn by it. The truffle is large and broad with quite open nostrils, of black color
- The height of the muzzle should not completely equalize the length
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EyesNeither too inserted, nor prominent, but
placed sufficiently under the orbital arcades known. They have a sharp
and intelligent expression. They are maroon dark and brilliances
Ears
Of intermediate size and mean. Attached low and placed against the head
Jaws
The jaws are strong and present one
articulated out of scissors perfect, regular and complete, i.e. that
the upper incisors recover the lower, in a close contact and are
established well square compared to the jaws
Neck
Length, dryness and curved (convex higher line), without pennon
Before hand
The scapulas are long and quite behind
tilted, punts, broad and brought closer with the tourniquet. The
shoulders are not charged. The elbows are well descended and well to
the body. The front armlevers are strong, with flat and right bones.
The guns métacarpiens are of balance
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Of average length, well descended chest,
well curved coasts, developed well with the back of the thorax. Broad
and slightly vaulted kidney. Breast piece not too broad
Back hand
The rear limbs, of the hip to the bulge
are long, broad and muscular; bulge with the foot; forts and courts;
the grassets are well angled. The members are right articulation of the
bulge on the ground. The basin tends towards the horizontal one
Feet
Ovals, fingers tightened well and
cambered. There are many hairs between the fingers. The tubers of the
fingers are quite full, and the plantar bearings are thick
Whip
Right and slightly a scimitar; does not
have to exceed the bulge. It is carried horizontally or below the line
of back. Thick to the birth, it goes being reduced in a fine point. The
fringes (or banner) which leave close to the birth to the tail are long
and right and decrease length until the end
Paces, movement
Regular, released and frank paces, with much impulse of the back
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Hair- On
the head, with the former part of the members and the end of the ears,
the hair is short and fine, but on all the other parts of the body, it
is average length, flat and without loops nor undulations
- The fringes
at the upper part of the ears are long and silky. Those with the back
of the members are long, fine, punts and right-hand sides. The belly
carries a fringe which can extend to the breast piece and to the
throat. The fringes are the more so as possible of loops and undulations
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Carbon black intense and shining, without
trace of rust with marks fire of a sharp chestnut red. Blows of lead
pencil are allowed on the fingers, just as of the black lines under the
jaws
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Marks fire- Two clear tasks with the top as of eyes do not exceed 19 mm in diameter
- On
each side of the muzzle, the marks fire should not go higher than the
base of truffle. They resemble a band, surrounding from one side to
another the end of the muzzle, which is clearly drawn
- Marks
on the throat. Two large clear tasks on the breast piece. Marks on the
part interns rear limbs and thighs, extending until the former part of
the grasset and widening to gain the external face of the rear limbs
since the bulge to the fingers
- On the former ones, the color fire goes up to the wrists or a little higher, in front
- Marks around the anus
- A small task is allowed with the breast piece
- No other color is allowed
Cut
- For the males: 66 centimetres
- For the females: 62 centimetres
Defects
Any variation compared to what precedes must be regarded as a defect, which will be penalized according to its gravity
N.B.
The males must have two testicles of normal appearance, completely descended in the scrotum
POINTS OF NOT CONFIRMATION |
General type
- Lack of the type
- Embarrassment
marked of the posterior train at the time of the step: to defer the
animal and to require a radiography, which will be interpreted by the
official reader
- Refusal
for the subjects presenting a stage of dysplasy D or E at the time of
the presentation of the radio following an adjournment for marked
embarrassment of the rear wheel-axle unit
Particular points in the type
- Too marked Constructional defects qu harm the use: very bad balances, deformation of the rib cage…
- Whip out of hunting horns
Wrap
- White Spot well delimited elsewhere than with the breast piece
- Yellow Eyes
Cut
More or less cut beyond the limits “3 centimetres” compared to the median value envisaged with the standard
Anomalies
- Monorchidie or cryptorchidie
- Prognathisme
Others
A wounded or sick dog will be obligatorily deferred
source: site of the RASG: www.settergordon.com
a little history ........
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Already favorite
of Napoleon III, Gordon has a history rich and old in France. this
Scottish gentleman, in a little English and Irish truth, thus has
something of French good.
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There arethe English, the Irishman and the Scot. The scottish of the Setter
family draws her name from the fourth duke of Gordon, a pure Lord malt
which selected in its kennels of Aberdeen a line primarily of local
dogs. This Irish contribution would be still found by the presence of
subjects marked of a little white elsewhere than to the breast piece, a
defect which implies the refusal of the confirmation today. One also
speaks about a light contribution of Bloodhound, on the level of the
tricolor dress, the structure and the incomparable nose. One also
evokes Collie, but it seems that in fact especially the Border collie
profited from Gordon blood. In fact the duke Alexander of Gordon
carried in the tomb the secrecy which enabled him to select as of the
end of the 18th century the first line of Setter “black tan and”.
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Several otherstockbreeders, like Lord Penmure or Major Douglas of Broughty, them
also created their line which was useful has the development of modern
Gordon. But the registers of Kennel Club testify to a reality even more
complex. The setters were registered like English, Irish or Scot
according to their color and not of their source, a fourth small
drainage canal Welsh with buckled hair and any black not having never
had the honor to become a race, was absorbed by Gordon. Thus tricolor
or black setters English and Irish and fire contributed their share to
the development of Gordon.
It would
however not have to be believed that one could gather the setters in
only one and even race comprising three varieties according to their
color. Each one kept or acquired a style and a clean physique.
And the hunters
immediately voted by plebiscite the black and fire; the Book of the
French Origins testifies some. First Gordon, certain Wind, was
registered on March 28th, 1885 with the open WINDWARD SIDE about
fifteen days before. And if one looks at the first thousand
inscriptions with the WINDWARD SIDE, one realizes that two hundred
thirty-eight is of Gordons, practically a dog on four!
The
ceation in 1905 of the club then made it possible the race to make a
very beautiful career in France. In spite of inevitable vicissitudes,
it is always in France that one finds the most important population of
Gordon in Europe, even in the world, with eight on ten thousand
subjects. From there to say that it is French of the setters.
source: site RASG: www.settergordon.com