'The Australian Outback Legend'

NEW KELPIE BOOK ! SIRES AVAILABLE     We now have frozen semen from some of our top sires SIRES AVAILABLE kelpies@noonbarra.com COMPANION CUSTOMER COMMENTS "My life has been so enriched and I am so blessed for such a special companion. " "Bonnie goes out to pick up the paper when it is delivered 3 times a week." "Scamper has turned out to be a wonderful dog.  She is super friendly, and pretty much loves all people and other dogs."  "People have often come up and commented on how good he is, but now people are coming up and asking where I got him from !" "Tess has a great little nature and wins people over quite quickly."   SEE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT KELPIES WE HAVE SOLD IN THE PAST

Noonbarra Stud is a small, long established and very well respected, Australian Working Kelpie Stud in NSW. Australia. Over many years of breeding these wonderful dogs, our Noonbarra Kelpies have been very successful in nearly every field of endeavour, including, Yard Dog Trials, Obedience competition, mustering wild goats, TV & film work, Therapy dogs, Agility competition, Arena three sheep dog Trials, Cattlework and more... Over the last few decades, Noonbarra has become one of the best known and most successful Studs in Australia, despite us only breeding a small number of pups each year. We have sold our Australian Working Kelpies all over Australia including Tasmania, Western Australia and Northern Territory as well as around the World to countries that include Sweden, United States of America, New Zealand, Belgium, Norway, Japan, Canada, Switzerland and Germany. Our family has been associated with breeding and training  Kelpies for  nearly 100 years.  We breed on the best of the old Kelpie bloodlines and all our dogs go strongly back to the renowned Kalari Kelpies. The Noonbarra Kelpies are very versatile and have proved themselves to be exceptional dogs with Cattle, Sheep, Goats, Alpacas and other livestock on farms and Stations from as little as 2 or 3 acres to more than 1,000,000 (million) acres! Customer Comments "Her ability to work, to be in the right place at the right time has happened so often it is uncanny. To me she is the 'one in a lifetime' great bitch/dog that one owns." "Tandy would cast (outrun) right around the boundary of the property to make sure he picked up every last sheep." "Real good cast and cover, great holder, has good eye. Make an excellent trial dog." "Dan was a really good dog right from the start, he was a cracker of a dog." "Bonny, the pup I bought from you is a marvel. She is simply a great bitch. I have indeed been blessed with having her." "Tina (III) was one of the few great females I've ever owned. I used her around the shearing sheds and a lot of shearing contractors wanted to buy her.". "He has a brilliant cast and shows no hesitation in backing in the yards or going underneath them. " We have bred dozens of Sheepdog Trial winners in Arena (paddock - 3 sheep), Utility, Farm and Yard Dog Sheepdog Trials  including the National Australian Open Champion, multi-western Champions and the NSW State Open Champion. We have bred and trained many hundreds of dogs, as well as teaching others through our training school. We have also been involved in TV and film work and given numerous exhibitions around Australia. (see section). We have written books, magazine and newspaper articles on the Kelpie breed as well as produced a series of Videos. We have served as directors of the Working Kelpie Council of Australia and the International Working Kelpie Club. Noonbarra Kelpies have often been bought as foundation stock for dozens of other breeders that need top bloodlines. We are quite proud of that support from other breeders. All our Noonbarra Kelpies have been bred strongly back on a direct line to the great station and trial working Kelpie bloodlines of Kalari. Kelpies from these lines include the famous Liscannor Pace, Rockybar Buff, Chondo Doll, Liscannor Kay, Le Cliff Jock and Kalari Joker. But the main influence for Noonbarra has always been the great Kalari Basil born in 1959. We have more of his blood in our dogs today than any other Stud in the country and we are very proud of this achievement. His work, temperament, calmness, versatility and incredible thinking ability has always been the benchmark we have bred towards at the Noonbarra Stud. Over the years we have developed a line of Kelpies that are different to the usual yard line of Kelpies today who have mostly come through Yard Trial bloodlines. We are still breeding the old type of Kelpie who has a lot of holding ability and break out and allows the stock to settle. They show eye and style and are very calm dogs and very loyal dogs. They have maintained many natural inherited traits that are becoming difficult to find in a lot of bloodlines today. We prefer to have dogs with a kind and loving personality, that are  good with children and show a high degree of intelligence, good agility, inherited natural stock skill, obedience and know how to have fun. We think this is what is needed if you want the highest degree of stock work from your dog. Our Noonbarra Kelpies are bred to be loyal and friendly and that is why so many stockmen buy them as their work mate. It is also likely to be one of the main factors in our growing sales to families who want a genuine hard-working Noonbarra Australian Working Kelpie as their choice for a companion dog!