[quote name='ellgee']WOW - the collie standards are so different than here in the US! Thanks for sharing, I love your collies, funny how we just presume that the confirmation standards would be the same. Just wondering, are these EU standards? I know nothing about international showing.
Since the gene pool is different, do you have problems with Ivermectin in collies or problems like "collie eye". Collies here have really changed over the last 60 years, your dogs have the more traditional look.
Thanks for sharing photo's, keep them coming ...[/img][/quote]
Ellegee I will try to share with you my opinion about EU collies. I hope you will understand everything :P
So as you can see Limba and Vega are completly different. Limba is the example of old type of collie. She is very big, with short and heavy coat.
Her movement is very good and she give it also to her puppys. One of them which is shown is already Pl.Youth Champion and 2 x CWC (3 titles CWC guarantee a Pl.Champion title). He is more similar to his grandfather ( JOLLY GOOD PLAYER de Florange). His body is more "light" than his mother and he have just wonderful movement!
here are his pictures in age of 12 months:
[img]http://www.lovelydream.cyberdusk.pl/images/jolly/jolly_small.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.lovelydream.cyberdusk.pl/images/jolly/jolly_big.jpg[/img]
Vega is in new type of EU collies. She is smaller than Limba as you can see on the picture and she won't be bigger. She has got fantastic sweat expresion and very good movement. Her coat is longer and she looks like "fluffy" :P. She has half hungarian and half english pedigree. Now many judges in EU keep big atention on strong bones, sweat head expresion and exelent movement.
I don't have any problems with eyes of my dogs.