Stud farm and
horse breeding
Stud farm and horse breeding
Succession secured.
The desire to preserve the genes of particularly successful stallions and mares is a lucrative business. The demand for such offspring and good hereditary succession is growing all the time.
This is why more and more companies are establishing themselves in this field. In Germany, the requirements and legal regulations for horse breeding are strictly prescribed.
Whether stallion keeping, artificial insemination, EU directives, mare keeping, young horse rearing: EQUUS DESIGN PLANUNG is your competent partner for modern stud facilities and all requirements for horse breeding.
The desire to preserve the genes of particularly successful stallions and mares is a lucrative business. The demand for such offspring and good hereditary succession is growing all the time.
This is why more and more companies are establishing themselves in this field. In Germany, the requirements and legal regulations for horse breeding are strictly prescribed.
Whether stallion keeping, artificial insemination, EU directives, mare keeping, young horse rearing: EQUUS DESIGN PLANUNG is your competent partner for modern stud facilities and all requirements for horse breeding.
Stud farm
A passion for horse breeding.
A stud farm is an agricultural business that specializes in horse breeding.
In Germany a distinction is made between a country stud and a main stud. The country stud is a pure stallion depot. Here, private mare owners are provided with stallions for insemination.
Main studs keep stallions, mares and foals.
The role of the state main and state studs is increasingly being called into question. Private stallion owners are increasingly taking over the role of the state studs in the form of an insemination station.
Private stud farms with stallions, mares and young horse breeding with performance-oriented bloodlines are increasingly taking over the tasks of the main stud farms.
Of course, these private facilities are profit-oriented, while the state studs often focus on preserving tradition.
Links: Der Polderhof and Stall Johannsen.
Horse breeding
Passion, emotion and anticipation.
Whether it’s an insemination station or a state stud: success is what counts in horse breeding.
Of course, it’s also about business. But the exciting questions: Did it work? Did the mare conceive? Is the foal healthy? And finally, the event of the birth: hardly any breeder can ignore this.
Nature is being relied on less and less here, even if “natural breeding” theoretically offers a higher chance of pregnancy and appears to be more species-appropriate.
However, the risk of injury for animals and humans is quite high, as the mating act is often stormy and unbridled. If the mare is not yet ready, she will kick out. She herself must be protected from bites and the stallion’s hooves.
This is why the mare stands in a mating stall for safety. Sometimes she is also specially tethered. This has little to do with the mare’s natural instinct and willingness to mate.
The natural cover on the pasture, in which a stallion is integrated into a herd of mares in order to gradually cover the mares in the herd, would come closest to the natural and species-appropriate behaviour of horses, but this is time-consuming, costly, uneconomical and also carries too great a risk of injury.
It has therefore become established practice to keep the stallions in a stallion station, where the valuable semen can be collected locally as required and sent all over the world.
Links: Heitmann Sportpferde and Hengststation Gernholt.
EU insemination station
EU insemination station
From the follicle to the foal.
There are different requirements for a national or an EU insemination station.
In contrast to national insemination stations, EU insemination stations are subject not only to the usual hygiene requirements, but also to strict quarantine regulations.
The insemination area must be separated and unauthorized persons must be denied access. Equidae with a lower or unknown hygiene status are not permitted in this area, not even in the functional areas with tack room, grooming and washing areas and horse solarium.
Stables must be spatially separated from the jumping room, semen laboratory and semen storage area. The jumping room should be accessible from the stallion stable either via a separate path or via an airlock. It must be of a certain minimum size and also have a safe height above the permanently installed phantom.
It must also be possible to accommodate a teaser mare. The floor must be non-slip and impermeable to water, floor drains should be slip-resistant and, if possible, also backflow-proof. They must not be in the stallions’ walkways. As soon as the stallion has finished inseminating, it should be possible to deliver the semen directly to the laboratory via a hatch.
EQUUS DESIGN PLANUNG also has a lot of experience in this area and will be happy to support you with the planning of your insemination station.
Links: Stall Johannsen and Hengststation Rene Tebbel.
