Windance Farm

 Home of  The Maremma Sheepdog

  The close guarding livestock guardian dog

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 Puppies for sale spring and fall

 Started and finished adult Maremmas may be available! 

Please contact us with ALL your needs!!!

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 Welcome to Windance Farm!

Where quality AND service are our top priority!

 Livestock Guardian Dog Training Manual by

Jackie Church

is NOW available to purchase!

See the details below!

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Learn helpful training tips, more about livestock guardian dogs and the goings on here at Windance Farms!  

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 Two of our breeding males from Italy:

We would like to introduce our two imported Italian male Maremma Sheepdogs!   Pacha and Baldo are strong, amazing guardians, who have beauty, strength and balance.

Baldo at 8 weeks of age in Italy.

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Pacha at 70 days old in Italy.

When it comes to quality, strong guarding and conformation - we import the best from old working Maremma Sheepdog lines.  It is imperative that the temperament be that of a 'true' Maremma; that the dogs guard strongly but sensible - with intelligence.  That they are strong in body and fearless in mind.  That they are your partner - your friend.

Our imported foundation male Maremma Sheepdog - Crisco.    Top of the line genetics - outstanding temperament and working style.   Perfect conformation.  Crisco is one of our foundation males.

              Windance Farm Maremma second generation retired breeding female named "Muffin". 

                       Parents:  Crisco x Zetta (both imported from Italy)

Muffin is a beautiful Maremma Sheepdog female who is strong and fearless.  She adores her stock and her family.  She is exactly what one looks for in an outstanding Maremma - temperament, working ability and conformation. 

Windance Farms primary goal and function is to provide you with the best working livestock guardian dog.  We sell Maremma Sheepdog puppies to adult working livestock guardian dogs all over the world!

We tailor each dog to where they will be going.  All dogs are social, bonded to stock, are sterilized unless going into an approved breeding program, have all their puppy shots including rabies, wormed and pedigree.

All of our puppies and dogs are handled and loved by small children.  This instills the love of children for life.  The dog is indeed a working dog, but it is vital that the dog is a working PARTNER, not a separate piece of the farm.  Not a liability.

If you do not have the time to devote to raising a livestock guardian dog - we can do this for you! 

You will also have full breeder support!  I will be there from the very first moment - until the very last!  I have the knowledge and experience to answer any and all of your questions.  

And I truly CARE about the proper and RIGHT working partnership you will have with your Maremma Sheepdog!

You will not travel this road alone - I will do my best to be there!

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Our Maremma Sheepdog second generation retired breeding female - Muffin.   ( Crisco x Zetta)

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Beautiful Baldo - January 2015 - our imported Italian Maremma Sheepdog

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                                      Izzy (Kaida x Beppe)  and her puppies  

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Windance Farm Maremma puppy

Muffin x Baldo 2014

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Pacha - our beautiful imported male December 2013

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If you have considered a Maremma - now is the time!

We can tailor these dogs to YOUR farm needs!

Please call or email for more information

OR

To reserve your Maremma!! 

Good-night puppies!  These two just finished supper and are ready to fall asleep on their feet! 

Oak - A  Windance Farm Maremma - Owner:  ManyFold Farm - Rebecca Williams 

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Emmett - six month old male working in Vermont at Rockville Market Farm (Tallini x Beppe)

Windance Farm Maremmas

Yoshi -- A Windance Farm Maremma (Muffin x Chino)  Owner: Brooks McCandlish

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Ranger  (Fresca x Beppe) and our beautiful daughter

Maremma Love - Windance Farm Maremmas

 Loving your livestock guardian dog makes for a BETTER guardian!

Partnership - that is what having a LGD is ALL about.

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Vera and her goats - Kathrin Bateman owner (Fresca x Beppe) 

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Livestock Guardian Dog Training Manual

written by Jackie Church

is NOW available for sale!! 

For the past 20 years, I have been blessed to be able to  work with livestock guardian dogs who were labeled as  'failures.' 

From ones who were in dire straits because no one would work with a dog who chased stock and killed them.  To others who were abused by man. 

I have learned so much by working with them.  I have been blessed to see them grow in their understanding of what was expected of them.  To see the flower slowly open and to see the true beauty deep within. 

 To see the glow in their eyes when they GOT IT.  When they WERE  "THE" livestock guardian dogs that

they were suppose to be. 

What an amazing sight to see.

In turn, we have raised up tons of dogs from birth on up.  I have learned how to set up a young dog to succeed. 

How to guide an adult back onto the right path.

 How important your job as the owner is in this success. 

It is very wrong and sad that so many of these livestock guardian dogs are taken away from their littermates  and teaching mother, to be the only puppy in a field and expected to just know it all. 

That by tossing a puppy in the field and not doing anything as the owner is the right way to go - NOT.

So many times, these puppies are labeled as failures.  So many times, these puppies come to chase the stock that they  love and injury or death is the result. So many times, people just toss these dogs, when the failure is not the dog - but the owner.

I have mentored hundreds of people a year on the proper raising and training of their livestock guardian dog. 

It is so very true that your livestock guardian dog should know HOW to guard.  This is NOT taught by man.  The puppy / dog should know how to mark the perimeter (this is taught by Mom when the pups are old enough to follow her around).  

However, so much is taught by either a proper older dog - or you, the owner. 

 Self control is taught when the dog is very  young.  For example,  a dog that jumps on you, will indeed jump on the stock.  If the dog mouths your hands, it WILL mouth the stock.  If the dog bites you in play, it WILL bite your stock in play.

A livestock guardian dog who does chase stock, or who has caused injury or death should not automatically be labeled as a failure or

as ruined. 

The dog needs to understand what is expected of it and needs to be directed to that right road

To be set up to succeed.

I wrote this manual to help you understand your livestock guardian dog.  To help you understand its thoughts and why it does what it does. 

To help YOU set your dog up to succeed.

To help YOU  guide your dog.

To help YOU change behaviors that are wrong.

This manual will answer so many of your questions.

There is NO other manual or book out there that gives you direct answers to the questions that you have.

I KNOW your questions.

I KNOW your confusion.

I was there with my first Maremma all those years ago.

I hear the same questions over and over

from people just like you who are lost and have

no where to turn for the RIGHT answers.

You Will Not Be Disappointed.

You will be enlightened and you will

have the tools to set your livestock guardian

dog up to suceed.

To fix problem behaviors.

To UNDERSTAND them.

If you have considered adding a livestock guardian dog to YOUR farm - please purchase this manual.  No matter the breed of Livestock Guardian Dog - this manual applies.  If you question if a livestock guardian dog is for YOU and YOUR farm -

Please purchase this manual!

It will answer SO many of your questions.

 A copy sent by mail:

Cost:  $29.50 ($24.50 for manual & $5.00 S&H)

(includes a tracking number from the Post Office)

Please send payment through Paypal (www.paypal.com) to

windancefarm@earthlink.net 

or send a check or  money order made payable to

Jackie Church and mail to: 

Windance Farm

Jackie Church

1698 Cty. Rt. 11

Gouverneur, NY 13642

Your copy will be sent within two days of receipt of payment.

 (However, most copies are mailed within 24 hours)

***** NOTE:  Please put in your mailing address so I know where to send the manual.  Please also include a form of contact information - phone number or email address.

Thanks so much!!

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NEWS FLASH!!

  Windance Farm Maremmas is  a part of a television  documentary called

"Extraordinary Dogs"

hosted by Eukanuba.

This program was viewed

in 50 countries

In the United States

it was shown on

 The Documentary Channel.

Windance Farm Maremmas 

will be on Episode 10

"Canine Instinct"

Please feel free to write us!

We would love to hear from you!

 Look for Jackie Church / Windance Farms in Hobby Farms Magazine!!

August / September 2013 addition

Look for Windance Farms also in the book:

"My Pet Chicken Handbook"

written by: Lissa Lucas & Traci Torres

Look for Windance Farms in child's book released (December 2015) 

The ABC'S of Dogs Part 3

written by Scott Alexander

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                    TRAINING CLASSES                                  

Have you ever wished you could just understand the why's and how's of raising up your livestock guardian dog?  Did you ever wonder why they react or behave the way they do?  Have you wanted to change a behavior but never seemed to understand HOW?

Well - here it is!!!  THE ANSWERS!!!!

Training Classes Now Being Offered !!

Come to the Farm and learn how to raise and train your livestock guardian dog!  Learn how to read them, communicate with them - understand them.              Train Them.  

Part One and Part Two classes are available.

Four hours of hands on learning with our dogs.  Class will be based on what YOU need - to have the right and perfect working partnership with your dog.

You will also receive a copy of my Livestock Guardian Dog Training Manual.

Call or email for more details and to make your reservation!

DON'T WAIT ANOTHER DAY -

ANOTHER MINUTE! 

STOP THE CONFUSION NOW!

LET ME SHOW YOU HOW.

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   Where quality, temperament, working style

come together -

Windance Farm

Home of

THE

      Maremma Sheepdog!