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English Setter puppies

English Setter puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise English Setter puppies for sale

Have an English Setter litter due or ready? Advertise it here with the mother's details, health test results and your licence number, and link it to your free breeder profile.

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Is it free to advertise here?

Yes. A breeder profile and your litter and stud dog adverts are free. Premium profiles, featured placement and sponsored articles are optional paid extras; see pricing.

Do I need a licence to advertise puppies?

In England you need a dog breeding licence from your council if you breed three or more litters in 12 months or breed and sell dogs as a business, and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have their own schemes. Licensed breeders show their licence number and issuing council on every advert. Puppies must be at least eight weeks old before they go to new homes.

Is my listing already here?

We add licensed breeders from councils' public registers. Search for your kennel name; if it is listed you can claim it and edit everything.

Buying an English Setter puppy

Use this page to find English Setter puppies for sale and planned litters from UK breeders listed on caninebreeder.co.uk. Each listing shows what the breeder has told us, so check the details for yourself. Litters are scarce: The Royal Kennel Club recorded only 176 English Setter registrations in 2025, and joining a waiting list is normal. Before you commit, look up both parents' hip scores on the RKC Health Test Results Finder and ask whether the litter has been BAER hearing tested. Decide early whether you want a show-bred or working-bred setter, because drive and coat care differ. Plan for more than two hours of exercise a day once the dog is adult, plus regular grooming of the long, feathered coat. Always see the puppies with their mother. The English Setter Association keeps a puppy register, and our buyer safety guide explains how to avoid deposit scams.

Health tests to ask about

The Royal Kennel Club's health guidance for the English Setter lists prioritising genetic diversity and hip scoring as Good Practice, and elbow grading and BAER hearing tests, including litter screening, as Best Practice. The RKC's DNA package for the breed covers PRA-rcd4. The breed is in Breed Watch Category 1, so no conformation concerns specific to it are flagged for show judges.

Seven English Setter breed clubs are represented on the Joint English Setter Clubs Health Committee. Its 2025 health statement says the committee does not agree with the RKC's current health standard for the breed. It treats hip scores for both parents as essential and recommends BAER testing, reporting that about 4.5% of setters are deaf in one ear and 0.5% in both. It asks that imported dogs used for breeding be DNA tested for PRA4 and NCL, conditions it says are not found in the UK population, and does not require elbow scoring because elbow dysplasia has never been common in the breed. The English Setter Association health page also covers atopic dermatitis, hypothyroidism and fertility problems, and "dead tail", a painful but short-lived limp tail that can follow bathing, swimming or cold rain.

  • BVA/RKC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Good Practice; essential for both parents according to the breed clubs, which also accept Australian and European hip scores)
  • BVA/RKC Elbow Dysplasia Scheme (RKC Best Practice; not required by the breed clubs)
  • RKC BAER Scheme hearing test, including litter screening (RKC Best Practice; recommended by the breed clubs)
  • DNA tests: PRA-rcd4 in the RKC breed package; PRA4 and NCL for imported breeding dogs (breed clubs)
  • Genetic diversity: check the mating with the RKC inbreeding coefficient calculator (RKC Good Practice)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1

More for English Setter owners and breeders

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