After seeing great results while trialling Chapel Farm Puppy/Junior we are pleased to welcome John Halsted to the team of Top Trainers who feed the Chapel Farm Range to their young and adult dogs.

John is a renowned trainer with a remarkable record having qualified to compete at the IGL Retriever Championship every year since 1992 during which time he has handled 52 dogs achieving: 2 x First places, 6 x Seconds, 1 x Third, 3 x Fourths and 6 x DOM’s, including a memorable First and Second in 2009.

In 2005 and 2010 he ran 4 dogs each time. In 2015 here at Queensberry John set the bar higher by qualifying with 5 dogs setting a new record for the International Gundog League.

Photo shows John with his record setting 5 dog entry for the 2015 IGL Retriever Championship, including Winner FTCh Asterix Aguzannis of Chatsworth and DOM Winner FTCh Emmanygan Ramble.

Chapel Farm Kennels was recently visited by photographer and journalist David Hudson who was carrying out research for an article on the history of Buccleuch Labradors. David began by interviewing Gundog Manager David Lisett and then moved outside to take photographs to accompany the feature piece which was published in “Dog World” magazine on the 15^th of April. This is a very interesting article which gives a good description of the work undertaken at Chapel Farm Kennels and also describes the evolution of the Buccleuch Labrador whose lines can be traced back unbroken to the very first.

Our thanks to David for his diligent research and also for the copies of the photographs taken which include the one shown, David with Doyle, Chad, Daisy and Bella

Having won the Galloway Gundogs Novice Spaniel Test held at Slipperfield two weeks ago, Chapel Farm Kennel-man Scott went one better on Sunday by winning the Open Spaniel class at the latest Galloway Gundogs Test, sponsored by Chapel Farm and held at Auchenbrack, near Tynron in Dumfriesshire.

On this occasion he won with cocker spaniel Buccleuch Curlew aka “Dibley” and following a run-off was placed third with his young cocker “Ellie”.

Well done Scott, good luck for the next one.

We are delighted to receive the following e-mail from long-time client Simon Goddard.

“We started with training courses run by David, then bought the Training DVD, then a pup out of Buccleuch Lexie, then the Chapel Farm dog food and then we had these pups by Buccleuch Beata in February.
Just at the time the pups were ready to go on to solid food you announced the puppy food and we put our pups straight on to that. We are highly delighted with the progress of our pups, healthy and strong and growing like mad – very pleased all round. Regards Simon”

Our thanks to Simon for this glowing endorsement and photo showing some of the pups at play. Simon who is based in the Swindon area advises that at the time of writing there is some availability on the pups, to find out more give him a call on 07776 144443

We are pleased to welcome Lanark based ScotLog owner Scott Haynes who is branching out into selling Chapel Farm Premium Dog Food. Scott already is well established locally supplying and delivering logs and briquettes in the Lanark area. We asked what prompted him to become a Chapel Farm stockist.

“I first heard about the dog food through my brother Kevin who highly recommends the food having fed his dogs Chapel Farm over the past two years. The results speak for themselves; Cairngryffe Gundogs are in great condition and have enjoyed success at Novice and Open Field Trials in Scotland. ScotLog are very excited to be Chapel Farm stockist which will be a great addition to the other quality products we already supply. For further information about Chapel Farm dog foods please feel free to call on 07894 431703 or e-mail: scotlog@hotmail.co.uk ”.

Photo shows Scott with Kevin’s dogs and trophies.

Puppy/Junior, the newest variety in the Chapel Farm Dog Food range developed by Buccleuch Gundogs Manager, David Lisett, is now available. Although very few changes have been made to the recipe since the project began over 2 years ago David was keen to have it trialed as much as possible to ensure it gave the expected results, and we are delighted to report that feedback has been better than we could have hoped for.

For Example:

John Halsted, winner 2015 IGL Retriever Championship. “We have tried other puppy foods but we feel Chapel Farm Puppy/Junior has given us the best results”

Jon Bailey, winner 2014 ESS Championship. “Having fed puppies on other foods and raw diets, in my experience Chapel Farm Puppy/Junior is the best of them all”

For more information please go to the home page, scroll to the bottom and click on the bag image.

Chapel Farm is pleased to sponsor Galloway Gundogs who held their first Test of the year on Sunday at Craigadam where all winners received a bag of Chapel Farm Dogfood. 

They had a record entry, the highest ever in nearly 20 years with 16 new entrants. Chairman Cammy Watt reckons this is due in no small way to their connection to Chapel Farm which was very nice of him to say so. Thanks to Cammy for sending the photo which shows from left to right:

Judges Dale Clark and David Forgie.

Lynne Thomson – Winner Novice Retriever. 

John Patterson – Winner Open Spaniel. 

Chris Deardon – Winner Novice Spaniel. 

Keith Brown – Winner Open Retriever.

Judge Tom Forgie.

DogfoodNI (who continue to deliver Chapel Farm in Northern Ireland) have expanded and launched a new website dedicated solely to supplying Southern Ireland with payment in Euro’s. Stocking the full Chapel Farm range, the website shows Performance 24+ to be their best seller and also shows that delivery is next working day for orders placed before 1.00pm.
To find out more please check the stockist map for Dublin or visit www.dogfoodeire.ie

The English Springer Spaniel Championship is over for another year and our congratulations go to all who qualified to compete and helped make it such a memorable event. After three days of competition the winners were announced as:

Mr L Rice and Int FTCh Sliabh Treasure.

In Second Place – Mr R Wells and FTCh Dawsonlee Domino

Third – Mrs M Carragher with FTCh Lisgarvagh Verde handled by Mr D Kelly

Fourth – Mr R Wells and Pitrahh Dirty Angie.

There were also a good number of DOM’s presented including 2 for Chapel Farm sponsored handler Jon Bailey and 1 for David who was competing with Buccleuch Honey “Tina.”

Photo taken by David shows the first day about to get underway.

The Yorkshire Sporting Spaniel Club held their Novice Stake for 16 English Springer Spaniels yesterday the 9^th December.

David had entered with Buccleuch Kelsey “Laddie” and we are delighted to say that things went well and they were awarded first place.

The stake was held at West Tanfield Estate by Kind Permission of Mr Christopher Bourne-Arton. Steward of the beat was Mr M Benson with Judges: Mr S Charlton and Mr M Hook.