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ABOUT US |
| We have been raising
English setters since 1980. We are fortunate to live in southwestern
North Dakota, where upland game birds thrive. In a good day of dog
training or hunting, we will see several hundred to several thousand wild
pheasants. Many of the top bird dog trainers in North America come
to our part of the state to train their bird dogs. Our goal has always been to improve the breed. My wife Marian and I have been fortunate to meet a lot of great bird dog people in the last 28 years. These knowledgeable men and women have helped us immeasurably as we continue. I really like to hunt a lot. I live right in the middle of the best wild pheasant hunting in North America and I get to spend lots of time afield. Sometimes when I am out, it's just me, my friends and 10,000 pheasants. It is great and I love it. Marian and I like dogs that like to point a lot, point early and back naturally with style. Click here for some hunting photos. We like to compete with
our dogs and for the most part, we have been very successful at it over
the last 20+ years. When you buy a puppy from us, you will know that
we've are continually competing and testing our dogs against the best
pointing dogs of all breeds around the country. We've been fortunate
to win the North Dakota Pheasant Championship several times in the last
fifteen years or so, with our dogs, Havelock
Powerball, Havelock Ike
and Havelock Doc. Havelock
Citation and Havelock
Blackjack are carrying the banner for us around the country right now. Our most well known dog was probably Havelock Blacksmith. "Blackie" was used for several years by Purina in their "Chosen by Champions" ads. We live on a nice farm/ranch of over 3,000 acres along the Cannonball River. Ours is a 5th generation farm and this is where I grew up and have lived for over 50 years. This is the "Best of the Best" when it comes to pheasant habitat. In all of my hunting and field trial travels around the country, I have never come across a place that is better suited to training and evaluating young bird dogs. Slide show. Our kennel set up
has grown over the years. Our kennel complex has 9 large grass,
fenced exercise areas from about one half acre, up to the largest pen of
about 20 acres. The kennel complex is large enough to have the dogs
hunting, finding and pointing wild pheasants or sharptail grouse inside
their pens. Several of the photos you see on our website were
taken while the dogs were on point on wild birds in their exercise
areas. All of our dogs have plenty of room to run and
roam. Our smallest kennel runs are our breeding runs where we bring the female dogs for about three weeks when they come in season. These kennels are 56 feet long and 8 feet wide. Plenty of room for a dog to exercise. The mother dogs are with the puppies in their puppy areas for about six weeks. After the puppies are weaned, it's back out to the big exercise areas for Mom. Our dogs are healthy, content, well exercised and happy. When we keep a pup to evaluate for our breeding program, they usually get to run loose on the farm until they are about a year old. During this year, we get to see the pups hunt and point lots of wild birds. They learn to walk with us and work to the front. During these daily walks, we see which of the pups point early, back naturally and are smart enough to hunt a large area, but still stay with us. We find out which dogs are smart enough find us again when they get lost. For our breeding purposes we only keep the best dogs that show lots of natural ability. We usually have
pups available throughout the year and will usually be able to provide you
with a puppy at the time that it will work best for you. |
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