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First Harmony Farms sells quality Border Collies, 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 are a great place to meet some of the adult dogs: Details
Call me if you would like to know what dogs we will have at the different shows annd would like to meet them in person. We do not usually take litters to shows, but will take a lot of our up and coming dogs in training as well as the dogs competing. 

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 Zelle) and the balance is due, in cash, upon pickup. 

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/Winter 2023
Aussies/Minis-Summer 2023
English Setters-Fall/Winter 2023
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​Border Collies ​​​
  1. Robert
  2. Nancy
Aussies/MAS ​​​​
  1. Heather
​​English Setters ​​​​​​​​​​​
  1. Pat
  2. Dale
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.
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​Puppy
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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 and puppies will be tested when we do and results will be available for picking. 

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Our Border Collies are bred for sports and some are working/herding lines. Our pups have been successful herding, flyball, agility, obedience, rally, disc, dock diving, barn hunt, scent work, trick, therapy, and service dogs.  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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Planned Litters for the next year:
Aria (Echo X Mike) X Ruari  (may change)
Encore (Echo X Ruari) X 
Escape (Epic X Ryder) X

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We raise aussies of a variety of sizes from 11"-20" tall and 7-50#. Our pups have been successful herding, flyball, agility, obedience, rally, disc, dock diving, barn hunt, scent work, trick, therapy, and service dogs.  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. 
Planned Litters for the next year:
Reba (Lexi X Soldier)-Dawn's House
​Noel (Pip X Rookie)-Tara's House

Secret X Riot
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Puppies expected early November. 
This litter will be registered as Miniature American Shepherds through AKC. 
Expected to be 14-16", medium drive. 
Puppies will be born and raised at First Harmony Farms. 


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Our setters are field bred and registered with FDSB and occasionally AKC. Our pups have been successful trial and hunting dogs. They have also been successful flyball, agility, obedience, rally, disc, dock diving, trick, therapy, and service dogs. Each litter is listed below. Click on the parents picture or name to get their details. ​
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Planned Litters for the next year:
Sindri (Eclipse X Bo)-Lexi's House
​Demi (Stormy X Archie)-at FHF 

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. ​
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Chinchillas

Female Chinchilla available for sale with cage and supplies. 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 and started fur chewing. They need a home where they can have their big cage back again. Now that she is back in the big cage, her coat is gorgeous again, but she is in our garage and doesn't get time out of the cage much which isn't a great life for her. 

Location
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Tiskilwa, IL

Contact Us

Lynette VandeVenter
Email:
firstharmonyfarms@yahoo.com
Phone: 815-876-6796
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