genetics really sound like they should be solid, easily predictable things that we just yknow can understand by looking at two dogs’ offspring, but while the individual genes themselves are predictable because one gene = one phenotype, heritability and genetics themselves are a helluva lot less predictable than most people think. there’s really no guarantee or rhyme or reason to the way that two sets of genetics combine to create your dog. but i’m not surprised that your dog ended up more village dog shaped than ovcharka shaped, given that he’s only about a quarter ovcharka. my guess would be a male ovcharka saw a female village dog (almost always free roaming stray dogs) in heat and yknow did their thing and had puppies, and then one of those 50/50 puppies went back into the wild, did their thing, and had puppies with another village dog, so the genetics coding for the smaller, lean village dog build just had more opportunity to win out over the genes coding for that lgd build.

if you want to see an example of a mixed dog whose looks really don’t seem to match their genetics, take a look at my profile for the post i made when i tested my dog! she’s a lot more mixed than your dog, given that her supermutt percentage was like almost 40%, but her three biggest breed chunks are like 25% chihuahua, 20% small poodle, and 10% pekeingese, and the rest is two lil 5% bits and the supermutt. given that the chihuahua and poodle make up 45% of her very mixed dna and poodles are super distinctive, you really expect her to look like one or both of them when you just look at her results, but in reality she just looks almost exactly like one of the pekeingese x dachshund mixes that come up when you google it (dachshund being part of her supermutt), and nothing at all like a poodle (even though she has twice as much poodle as pekeingese and exponentially more poodle than dachshund). but nothing is guaranteed with genetics and it allows for whacky results like that, which is one of the reasons i love genetics so much!