ANALYSIS OF THE HAIR TEXTURE OF THE BOSNIAN BROKEN-HAIRED HOUND – BARAK

The Austrian Frank B. Laska (1905) conducted the first zootechnical examination on hounds from the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina and classified them by the type of hair. Since 1905, the population of this breed in Bosnia and Herzegovina has not been the subject of research, its hair accordingly. Keywords: Barak, hair texture, hound INTRODUCTION According to today's official systematics accepted in cynology, the Fédération Cynologique Internationale (FCI, 2019) divide dogs into 10 groups, and the group of hound dogs is classified in group 6, which includes 3 sections (section 1 has 3 subsections) with total of 76 dog breeds: FCI group 6 Scent hounds and related breeds Section 1 Scent hounds Section 2 Leash (scent) Hounds Subsection 1.1 Large-size Hounds Subsection 1.2 Medium-size Hounds Subsection 1.3 Small-size Hounds Section 3 Related breeds (Fédération Cynologique Internationale - FCI, 2019) The Austrian Frank B. Laska (1905) conducted the first zootechnical examination on hounds from the territory of today's Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the author, the Balkans are the nursery of hounds, that is, the hounds from the Balkans were the basis for creation many breeds of hounds on the West. The standard does not define the length of the hair. Since 1905, the population of this breed in Bosnia and Herzegovina has not been the subject of research, its hair accordingly. The authors state that a large variation interval was found for this parameter. [...]the diameter of cover hair on shoulders varied from 5 pm to 70 pm.