We adore this breed and imported a pair of Karakachans from Bulgaria. It took 9 months to find the perfect pairing and they go back three generations guarding sheep in the mountains. They guard white dorper sheep on our farm and we are breeders. We have 9 adult Karakachans on our farm and often have pups available. They are phenomenal livestock guardian dogs.
Great information; however, I’d really appreciate seeing the research that proves a raw meat diet is harmful to dogs. From my independent research, the “food safety” issue seems to be weak argument against. The point that a raw diet “scares you” is not definitive. That said, I do very appreciate the channel.
Most vets do not recommend raw diets because they often contain E. coli. and salmonella. Also, unless you are a nutritionist, your dog is not getting the proper amount of vitamins and minerals in a raw diet. Feed a quality commercial kibble to maintain the proper condition of your dog.
They think God didn’t make dogs to live with out the dog food market Table scapes and raw meat is natural food Dry food is fast and easy to feed for 5/10 years and dead dog
i want,thank you for video.The history of our bulgarian sheperd dogs is verry sad.The breed was twice almost dissapear,first in start of comunism and after his fall.I was kid in Bratcigovo after fall of comunism,when my favorite biggest guard dogs,wich guard bulgarian bivoly(buffalo),was killed.They are not so big now,but peoples try to revive breed,from 20 years.This dogs work in packs 5 10 dogs scare the bears and wolfs.They will fought for domminance,few times is ok,lieve to finish,they will not kill each other,if you not encourage this,has bin used in our army before,is dangerous dog,must be carefull.BTW i never heard our sheperd dogs,to seriously injure any kid hihi.They are verry good with family kids(from old times,if sheperd dog bite and attack kid,to be put to sleep),but not with adult strangers,and is maybe,from oldest breed in Europe,since thracians.Are your dogs,from Stefan Popov kenne club? Healt and happynes
I do not know much about this breed but Karakachan is sure a Turkish word, which means something like "Blackrunner or Blackish color". There are a big Turkish minority in Bulgaria and they live there since many centuries. That explain where name comes from. The dog itself looks similar to Alabai (Alabay In Turkmen language, Ala means a mixed red-braun color and bay means rich). It looks like Turks took their dog with them from Central Asian into Caucasian, Turkey, Bulgarian and other old-ottoman territories.
karakachans are not turkish peoples,but thracian,mate.They always has bin lived most in Bulgaria,but in Greece too,Thrace is called the land,before Bulgaria,1400 years ago.Check the DNA analisys hah,who told you,they are turkish?
@@mitkodimitrov8396 I just talked about the word "Karakachan", which seems Turkish, and where it may come from. Now checked people "Karakachans". According to the wikipedia, they have been named after a Turkish word, but their ethnicity is unclear, and today they are assimilated by Greeks. Anyway, They moved and lived there during the Ottoman Period, which means they had many contacts with Turks and Nomads.
@@XY-uc1tw Yes the word Karakachan is 100% turkish given from the ottoman period . The Karakachan people , based on foundings and linguistic research , are believed to be most likely one of the pre-doric/dorian tribes (for example Spartans were doric and on the contrary Athenians were ionian , were the word yunani in turkish derives from) . What is interesting and creates this uncertainty about their roots is that , Karakachan people were themselves nomads , nomadic shepherds in a sense , so throughout their whole history they never remained in one place moving constantly through the balkans . After the fall of the Ottoman empire and the emerging of smaller countries and communism , since the open borders ceased to exist , many of them were trapped in the different balkan countries like Bulgaria in our case .
Well that's not surprising, Bulgaria was occupied by the Turkish empire for 300 years, before being "liberated" by Russia in 1877 and then eventually forced into becoming a part of the USSR. Bulgarian people are probably more familiar to other Slavs, and the language itself is moderately understandable to a Russian speaker, for instance, but the Turkish influence on their culture is definitely there. However, Karakachan (the "people" and the dogs) are Bulgarians or Balkans, for sure, even if the name was given to them by Turks and somehow stuck. The dogs are not Turkish in origin. I saw a few of these dogs in Bulgarian, in the Gotse Delchev region, which is quite close to Greece. I only spent a very small amount of time in Greece, as I quite prefer Bulgarian culture.
@@Theidmet you can remove the quotation marks - we were 100% truly liberated... Ottoman rule was absolutely devastating and we were being systematically eradicated for 500 years.
We adore this breed and imported a pair of Karakachans from Bulgaria. It took 9 months to find the perfect pairing and they go back three generations guarding sheep in the mountains. They guard white dorper sheep on our farm and we are breeders. We have 9 adult Karakachans on our farm and often have pups available. They are phenomenal livestock guardian dogs.
Buying 2 next weekend, this was helpful.
Thank you this video
Very informative and interesting
Did any figure out the actual titles to the two books he recommended for training resources?
Great information; however, I’d really appreciate seeing the research that proves a raw meat diet is harmful to dogs. From my independent research, the “food safety” issue seems to be weak argument against. The point that a raw diet “scares you” is not definitive. That said, I do very appreciate the channel.
Most vets do not recommend raw diets because they often contain E. coli. and salmonella. Also, unless you are a nutritionist, your dog is not getting the proper amount of vitamins and minerals in a raw diet. Feed a quality commercial kibble to maintain the proper condition of your dog.
They think God didn’t make dogs to live with out the dog food market
Table scapes and raw meat is natural food
Dry food is fast and easy to feed for 5/10 years and dead dog
Any chance you could do one on the Spanish Mastiff?
If I can find a qualified speaker for the breed, I would be happy to set one up.
i want,thank you for video.The history of our bulgarian sheperd dogs is verry sad.The breed was twice almost dissapear,first in start of comunism and after his fall.I was kid in Bratcigovo after fall of comunism,when my favorite biggest guard dogs,wich guard bulgarian bivoly(buffalo),was killed.They are not so big now,but peoples try to revive breed,from 20 years.This dogs work in packs 5 10 dogs scare the bears and wolfs.They will fought for domminance,few times is ok,lieve to finish,they will not kill each other,if you not
encourage this,has bin used in our army before,is dangerous dog,must be carefull.BTW i never heard our sheperd dogs,to seriously injure any kid hihi.They are verry good with family kids(from old times,if sheperd dog bite and attack kid,to be put to sleep),but not with adult strangers,and is maybe,from oldest breed in Europe,since thracians.Are your dogs,from Stefan Popov kenne club? Healt and happynes
I do not know much about this breed but Karakachan is sure a Turkish word, which means something like "Blackrunner or Blackish color". There are a big Turkish minority in Bulgaria and they live there since many centuries. That explain where name comes from. The dog itself looks similar to Alabai (Alabay In Turkmen language, Ala means a mixed red-braun color and bay means rich). It looks like Turks took their dog with them from Central Asian into Caucasian, Turkey, Bulgarian and other old-ottoman territories.
karakachans are not turkish peoples,but thracian,mate.They always has bin lived most in Bulgaria,but in Greece too,Thrace is called the land,before Bulgaria,1400 years ago.Check the DNA analisys hah,who told you,they are turkish?
@@mitkodimitrov8396 I just talked about the word "Karakachan", which seems Turkish, and where it may come from.
Now checked people "Karakachans". According to the wikipedia, they have been named after a Turkish word, but their ethnicity is unclear, and today they are assimilated by Greeks. Anyway, They moved and lived there during the Ottoman Period, which means they had many contacts with Turks and Nomads.
@@XY-uc1tw Yes the word Karakachan is 100% turkish given from the ottoman period . The Karakachan people , based on foundings and linguistic research , are believed to be most likely one of the pre-doric/dorian tribes (for example Spartans were doric and on the contrary Athenians were ionian , were the word yunani in turkish derives from) . What is interesting and creates this uncertainty about their roots is that , Karakachan people were themselves nomads , nomadic shepherds in a sense , so throughout their whole history they never remained in one place moving constantly through the balkans . After the fall of the Ottoman empire and the emerging of smaller countries and communism , since the open borders ceased to exist , many of them were trapped in the different balkan countries like Bulgaria in our case .
Well that's not surprising, Bulgaria was occupied by the Turkish empire for 300 years, before being "liberated" by Russia in 1877 and then eventually forced into becoming a part of the USSR.
Bulgarian people are probably more familiar to other Slavs, and the language itself is moderately understandable to a Russian speaker, for instance, but the Turkish influence on their culture is definitely there.
However, Karakachan (the "people" and the dogs) are Bulgarians or Balkans, for sure, even if the name was given to them by Turks and somehow stuck. The dogs are not Turkish in origin.
I saw a few of these dogs in Bulgarian, in the Gotse Delchev region, which is quite close to Greece. I only spent a very small amount of time in Greece, as I quite prefer Bulgarian culture.
@@Theidmet you can remove the quotation marks - we were 100% truly liberated... Ottoman rule was absolutely devastating and we were being systematically eradicated for 500 years.
Rocks from heaven :)
Karakachan or sarakatsan is a 100 100 Greek people's!
One of our Karakachan pups is going to a lovely Greek family.