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Irish Red & White Setter puppies

Irish Red & White Setter puppies and litters from UK breeders, with the parents’ health tests and licence details.

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Advertise Irish Red & White Setter puppies for sale

Have an Irish Red & White 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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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.

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Buying an Irish Red & White Setter puppy

This page lists UK breeders on caninebreeder.co.uk with Irish Red & White Setter puppies for sale or litters planned. As a vulnerable native breed, it has had fewer than 100 RKC registrations a year over the last decade, so expect to wait for the right litter. Each listing shows what the breeder has told us, so confirm the details before you pay a deposit. Ask for the parents' CLAD results, eye certificates and hip scores, and check them on the RKC Health Test Results Finder; at least one parent should be CLAD clear or hereditary clear. Make sure you can give a large, energetic gundog more than two hours of exercise a day. The Irish Red and White Setter Club of Great Britain runs a puppy register, and our buyer safety guide covers scams. You can also browse Irish Red & White Setter stud dogs.

Health tests to ask about

The RKC Irish Red & White Setter page sets out the breed's health advice. As good practice, breeders should prioritise genetic diversity, which matters in a vulnerable breed. Best practice adds a DNA test for canine leucocyte adhesion deficiency (CLAD), eye testing under the BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme and hip scoring under the BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme. The RKC offers a breed DNA testing package covering CLAD. The breed is in Breed Watch Category 1.

CLAD is an autosomal recessive condition in which white blood cells cannot fight infection properly, and affected puppies usually die young. The RKC says imported dogs must be tested to stop it being reintroduced to the UK population. From 6 January 2025, imported dogs, and litters by overseas sires, can only be RKC registered if the dog or sire is DNA tested clear or carrier, or is hereditary clear; carriers may only be mated to a clear or hereditary clear partner. The RKC publishes a list of CLAD-tested dogs.

The breed club's health page gives a breed average hip score of 10 (scores run from 0 to 106, lower is better). It treats posterior polar cataract as a minor condition that need not stop a dog being bred, but says breeding dogs should be eye tested so two affected dogs are not mated.

Health tests and schemes for the Irish Red & White Setter (RKC):

  • Prioritising genetic diversity (RKC good practice)
  • DNA test: canine leucocyte adhesion deficiency, CLAD (RKC best practice; required for imports and overseas sires)
  • BVA/KC/ISDS Eye Scheme (RKC best practice)
  • BVA/KC Hip Dysplasia Scheme (RKC best practice)
  • Breed Watch: Category 1
  • RKC vulnerable native breed

More for Irish Red & White Setter owners and breeders

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