We are most grateful to new stockist Craig Barratt for the following testimonial.

“My name is Craig; I have been working and involved with dogs all of my life in some form or another, from having dogs as pets to working animals. I currently have 2 Cocker Spaniel dogs, 1 Cocker Spaniel bitch and an English Springer Spaniel bitch. Now as you can imagine this is a lot of dogs to feed and I have always been a firm believer of feeding my own dogs, all of which work in the field, the best food I can.I had been feeding all my dogs on a branded food until I came across Chapel Farm Dog Food, I changed over my oldest cocker spaniel dog to performance 20 food and I couldn’t believe in a week the difference not only in my dogs coat but the energy that he had to keep going drive after drive on a shoot.As a result of this I have now converted all my dogs over to Chapel Farm Dog Food and highly recommend it to anyone that I meet.

I was so impressed with this food within 3 weeks of getting it and using it I contacted the supplier, and asked to be an authorised re-seller to help spread the word about how good this food is and at the right price which we all know is important!

For me, there is no better food on the market at this price.

Craig, Ravenfield Gun Dogs”

Our thanks to Craig for the e-mail and also for the photo showing his Cocker spaniel, Hudson.

To discuss Chapel Farm with Craig, call him on 07917 582542

Paul Harper of Redbeards Gundogs has many dogs in his kennels and it had been suggested by a friend that he might like to have a look at Chapel Farm. Initially he tried Chapel Farm Puppy/Junior on one of his litters and e-mailed this update over the weekend.

“After being on your puppy food for 4-5 weeks now, we would just like to let you know how very happy we are with this product. The puppies are all in excellent condition, alert, happy, healthy and full of life. We have no hesitation continuing to use this food with all our puppies now, and in the future. We will be recommending Chapel Farm Puppy to all our new puppy owners. We have also changed our main kennels to Chapel 24 and are very pleased with how well they are all doing on this food. Again we have no hesitation in recommending this food.”

We are most grateful to Paul for taking the time to write this excellent recommendation and also for sending the attached photo showing pups enjoying their meal.

Say hello to new Co Offaly based Southern Ireland stockist, Dan Currams of Ballyfarrell Working Dogs. Dan explains below why he recently made the decision to join the team.

“I’ve always wanted the best for my dogs and was no different when it came to their food. I went looking for a high quality dog meal, made from natural ingredients, at a competitive price. It was then I came across Chapel Farm Dog Food. I feed my Irish Red Setter and English Springer Spaniel on Performance 24+ all year round and I cannot recommend it highly enough. My dogs are working really well, have lots of energy and their coats are shining. All my customers are extremely happy with it. David Lisett and his team have done an excellent job in developing this food and I am delighted to be one of their stockists.”

Good luck Dan and thanks for the update and photo.

To speak with Dan about Chapel Farm Dog Food, please call him on 08792 29382 or e-mail: ballyfarrellworkingdogs@gmail.com

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.