About us:
We are a family living in Trondheim, Norway. In our free time we enjoy hunting and taking part in hunting trials and exhibitions with our gordon setters. Our house is called Markhytten and this is also our kennel name, it means “forest cottage”. Our business is currently small and family-friendly. Kennel Markhytten ran relatively large scale breeding of golden retriever in the 80s and 90s when it was owned by Roar and Sidsel Rosten . Our business now is considerably smaller, and concentrated on gordon setters. Our goal with breeding is helping to secure and develop good Norwegian hunting dogs with strong health, good mentality and physique. We want our dogs to work equally well in hunting and hunting trials as they do as family pets.
Contact us:
Trond +47 95031382
Carolyn +47 98294121
Trond.Rosten@yahoo.co.uk
Carolyn.Rosten@yahoo.co.uk
Trond
Physiologist from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Workplace: SINTEF
Hunted since: 1980
I grew up with Kennel Markhytten with hunting and fishing, dog and sports as main interests. The kennels’ first dog, golden retriever Kahill Early Dreamer ( “Gorm”), and I were longstanding hunting buddies from fourteen years of age. We hunted everything from crows, pigeons, gulls, grouse and ptarmigan in all available moments where the retriver was used both for search and retrieving. My training philosophy for hunting dog training received an annual top up from summer trainings with Ann-Turid and Arnulf Hustad at Brøttum and Anders Hallgren. Gorm became a very good hunting trial dog as a result of the combination of practical hunting and training and won, to many people’s surprise, the VK class in Trondheim at 6 years old. I had the pleasure of following and participating in my parents hard work to build Kennel Markhytten into a strong line with several good females and males (see history page). The very first dog of my own was Markhyttens Sara Natacha in 1986 who also had a litter. Unfortunately Sarah died in 1992 of a stomach tumour and so my time became focussed on studies, job, children and a break from keeping dogs until 2007, when I really achieved an adolescent dream of buying a pointing dog. Gordon setter Dariuz came to us from Kristina Edh in Sweden. The transition from retriever to setter was pretty big with countless surprises, both positive and negative. I was forced to establish a new leadership and consequence model. Luckily I had the pleasure of sharing this interest and quest for our own “setter-philosophy” with Carolyn who is both more systematic and patient :-).
Carolyn
Behaviour biologist from Durham University, England
Workplace: Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA)
Hunted since: 2009
I grew up south of London with animals and biology as main interests. I was never allowed to have my own dog, but instead several indoor rabbits that were trained as “dogs” :-). I performed my first research project on the training of zebrafish at 18 years old, which resulted in the Prince Philip Award from The Zoological Society of London. While growing up I worked on a farm with herding dogs and in a kennel for german shorthaired pointers. Since completing my doctorate, I have worked on studies of biology and behaviour for which I have used different telemetry techniques to study how animals use their surroundings and relate to each other. I moved to Norway from England in 2008 and to Markhytten in Trondheim in 2009. I got my first experience with a bird dog with a young and wanton Dariuz. I have actively contributed both through courses and personal background to align our common philosophy that we try to follow to get a life with hunting dogs and three young children to work. I bought Perdiz in 2013 and have had primary responsibility for training her. Have been inspired by courses and meetings with Kristina Edh and Anders Landin. I have three children (1, 3 and 5) together with Trond. I got my hunting licence in 2013 and have led both Perdiz and Dariuz hunting and in hunting trials. Restarted Kennel Markhytten with Trond in 2016.