First Harmony Farms sells quality Border Collies, Australian Shepherds, Miniature Australian Shepherd, Miniature American Shepherds, and English Setter Puppies from health tested parents. All health testing about the parents is on their individual sites. We do not usually have adults for sale as our dogs live out their lives as pets here at First Harmony Farms. If we do have any rescues, returns, or other adults become available, they will be listed here as well. 
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We are located in Tiskilwa, IL. We can set appointments to come see the animals at our home. Please set up an appointment to come and meet them as we are not always at home. email: firstharmonyfarms@yahoo.com. You can contact us via phone at 815-876-6796.  Tiskilwa, Illinois is located in Central Illinois about two hours from Chicago, an hour from Peoria, and an hour from the Quad Cities.

Raising puppies at FHF: Go to this page to see how our puppies are raised. 
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Facebook
Visit our Facebook page for information about Puppy Play times. These are open for anyone looking to meet us, our dogs, and our puppies that are old enough to come out. We also try to post videos and extra pics of the puppies and dogs to the Facebook Page. As picking is happening we will post as puppies are picked. We will also post if there are any puppies left available after the deposit list picks which puppies they want. We also have many people come and meet us at shows when we are in their area. 

Play times-at our house with puppies and adults to meet:
Currently on hold due to Covid-19. Unfortunately, we will only be able to allow limited people here at a time. We will try to allow a couple of appointment times every day for people to meet the adults and puppies and make sure the puppies still get socialization with strangers that first 8 weeks. We will also post videos of the puppies on the Facebook page. 
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Shows-to meet some of the adult dogs: Details
Sept 16-18-Amana, IA Flyball 
Oct 29-30-Princeton, IL FastCat

Prices:
Our puppies are all $1000 for non breeding homes and $1500 for breeding homes. We usually only allow 1-2 pick puppies in each litter to go to breeding homes and most of those stay in our breeding program. Prices include Illinois Sales Tax.  The deposit is $500 (cash, check, or Venmo) and the balance is due, in cash, upon pickup. 

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Current Deposit list:  
Puppy picking begins around 7 weeks old. Only dogs staying in our breeding program and stud picks will be picked before the deposit list. Puppies that are reserved for co-owns and breeders will be labeled as such. Then the deposit list will pick in the order we receive their deposits. On average, we will take 5 deposits per planned litter.  We may get more or less puppies than planned in a litter so the wait does vary a great deal.
We are currently taking deposits for:
Border Collies-Fall 2022
Aussies/Minis-Summer/Fall 2022
English Setters-Fall 2022
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​Border Collies ​​

1. Kristie
2. Liz
3. Traci
4. Aaron
5. Nancy

Aussies/Minis ​​

1. Kamila
2. Curt
3. Elizabeth
4. Gregory
5. Linda
6. Sam
7. Rebecca

​​English Setters ​​​​​​​​​​

1. Klint
2. Ray
3. Tyler
4. Kim
5. Kayce
6. Adam
7. Pat

Adults

1. Minh

Picking of the puppies will start around 7 weeks old, starting with our co-owns and then the stud owner. People on the deposit list get the next pick and any left available will be posted to Facebook ASAP. It is easiest if people come and meet the puppies in person before it is time to pick, but we understand that it can be difficult to travel for some owners. We try to have puppy play times between 5-7 weeks old so everyone can play with the puppies in person before picking begins. These are usually on weekends, but some weekends we may not be available. Puppy Play times are posted every week to our Facebook page. These are great times to come and meet us, the puppies, and the dogs. During picking, we discuss each puppy on the phone and have people pick their puppy over the phone.

​Puppy
​Forms:

Deposit Questionaire
​This is a form to fill out in order to get on our deposit list. You must call us in person first to get approved to fill out an application. 815-876-6796 The application and deposit check can be mailed once approved over the phone.
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Contracts
​This is a general contract for our litters. Some may vary depending on any extra stud dog requirements. Each litter will have the contract listed for it if anything is different.

Puppy Go Home
This page should answer most of your questions about pickup day and preparing for your new puppy. 

​MDR1 Information Sheet
​This sheet discusses MDR1 genetics in dogs. We will let you know the status of the puppies during picking so you can make an informed decision. Almost all of our litters are N/N and we will never breed a litter that can produce M/M. We very rarely breed litters that can produce M/N. 

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Our Border Collies are bred for sports and some are working/herding lines. All litters will be registered with ABCA and/or AKC. Each litter is listed below. Click on the parents picture or name to get their details. 
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Aria X Cal

Due right after Christmas.
​Puppies are expected to be 17-20", medium and high drive.
We are expecting some great sport and active pet home prospects. 
Puppies will be registered with AKC only.

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We raise aussies of a variety of sizes from 10"-20" tall and 7-50#. We now register most of  our puppies as Miniature American Shepherds with AKC. We do have an occasional Australian Shepherd or Miniature Australian Shepherd litter, pending the parent's registries. Each litter will say how they will be registered. Each litter is listed below. Click on the parents picture or name to get their details. 

Martial Miniature American Shepherd

Male     AKC Miniature American Shepherd
DOB 1/17/22  
​This stunning boy is from an outside breeding to our boy, Trip. He is related to both Rookie and Magic. He has shown some amazing drive, biddability, and trainability. He is now chasing and catching rollers. He has mastered potty and crate training. He has attended his first Conformation classes and is doing well with show grooming. He is great with the other dogs, loves all people and kids. We would like to see how he matures and is he would be an asset to our program. He is looking for a co-own home that is interested in competing or even letting us compete with him. 

Secret   Miniature American Shepherd   DOB 11/21/20
Secret is available to a Co-own home only. Would love a local home (within a couple of hours) that is interested in continuing her training and competing or let us compete with her. She would be fine as an only dog but would love a sibling. We do hope to breed her in the future.
She is amazing in the house, but will occasionally chew something, specifically removes eyes from stuffed animals. Secret is great with kids and other dogs, but has not been around cats. She has started training for flyball, disc, dock diving, agility, and trick. She hit her first few disc competitions as a puppy doing rollers. She loves to play tug. She loves swimming, but is only going into the pool off of the ramp.    ​

Journey X Rock

DOB 10/30/22. Ready to go home 12/24/22. 
​Puppies are expected to be 15-19", low-med energy.
Puppies will not have tails docked or front dew claws removed. 
Puppies will be registered as Miniature American Shepherds with AKC.

Marble-Female

Crystal-Female

Granite-Male

Arlington X Gambit

DOB 11/10/22. Ready to go home 1/6/22. 
​Puppies are expected to be 16-19", low-med energy
​Puppies will not have tails docked or front dew claws removed. 
Puppies will be registered as Miniature American Shepherds with AKC.

Kelley--female

Klinger--female

Hawkeye--male

Trapper--male

Radar--male

BJ--male

Sherman-male

Maggie-female

Houlihan--female

Kestrel    Miniature American Shepherd  3/25/19
Kestrel is available to a co-own, show, sport, or pet home.
Kestrel is looking for a new home. She is a social with people, but can be standoffish at first with some. She is very sweet, loves attention, and loves being with her people. She was not raised with kids, but has done great with young kids, even seeking them out for attention. She loves playing disc and has just started to learn. She lives for killing her big orange Chuck-it bar. She has not been started on any other sports training. She did visit a Fast Cat event to see how she would handle large amounts of people and dogs and did well.  She will not do well with chickens. Kennel, leash, potty, house trained. Great recall except around chickens, even with people she doesn't know. Has been around cats but not trusted loose around them. Has been health tested and been bred. She has had very minimal socialization or traveling and no competing, but has done well since October with traveling with us. Hips OFA good, elbows normal, CMR1 M/N, otherwise Animal Genetics panel clear. 

Tippy Miniature American Shepherd       DOB 8/7/22
Tip is available to a co-own home only and must compete before breeding. 
Tip is a very sweet girl with medium drive. She is a very smart cookie and is learning things quite well. She loves tipping over her water bucket, which is where she earned her nickname. Sire is a GCH Conformation dog. Dam is from well known Conformation and Sport lines. Related to Magic, Lily, Rocky, Lowdyn, and Rookie. 

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We have an occasional English Setter litter. Our setters are field bred and make great pets and hunting companions. Our litters are registered with FDSB and/or AKC. Each litter is listed below. Click on the parents picture or name to get their details. ​
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Mirage X Archie

DOB 10/11/22. Ready to go Home 12/6/22
​Pups will be registered with FDSB. 
​Pups will keep front dew claws and full tails. 

Pumpkin--Male​

Scarecrow--Male

Carmel-Female

Cider-Female

Maple-Female

October-Female

Spice-Female

Ambrosia-Female

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Border X Aussie (Baussies)

Although we do not purposefully cross breed our dogs, accidents do happen. We have had 2 of these happen in our program.  We also occasionally have outside females breed to our studs for Baussies. Each litter is listed below. Click on the parents picture or name to get their details. ​

Chinchillas

3 cages and 4 Female Chinchillas available for sale. They love their new huge cage, but it can't keep out my aussie who will kill them. The wire cages keep her out, but they were not happy about going back into the smaller cages again. They need a home where they can have their big cage back again.