Stud (animal)

The stud fee is a term used in animal breeding and refers to the fee that pays the owner of the female animal for the ceiling to the owner of the male animal.

Horse breeding

Thoroughbred breeding

In the breeding of the English thoroughbred horse, the stud fee of a stallion, many factors influence of which will be hereinafter referred to some of them:

In a young stallion, who is moving into the stud from the racecourse, the stud fee depends first of all on the services shown on the racetrack and on his descent. The better the racing performance and the better the parents of the stallion, the higher his stud fee at the beginning of its use as a breeding stallion.

If a stallion already own offspring on the track, the stud fee is increasingly dependent on the services shown his descendants. Are the descendants of very good, the stud fee increases, otherwise it remains unchanged or falls.

In the great thoroughbred breeding countries (Ireland, England, France and the U.S.) the amount of the stud fee is depends additionally on the auction results they may have achieved the descendants of the stallion at recent auctions. In Germany, the auction market is too small that it can be used as a significant parameter.

Apart from these basic parameters, the stud fee will be influenced by many other factors. Each stallion has a great interest that his stallion has as many good horses on the racetrack. Good horses generates a stallion also the fact that he is paired with good mares. Therefore get mares with good racing performance or those that already have successful offspring on the track itself, often a discount on the published stud fee. The amount of this discount depends in turn on many factors and is usually negotiated individually.

Payment agreements

In various stallions different payment arrangements for the stud fee will be offered. The more the payment will be pushed to the back (closer to the birth of the foal ), the higher is the actual amount. The owner of the mare has developed a greater certainty that he actually gets a foal. If the stud fee payable in temporal proximity to mating, it is relatively low, but the mare owner has the risk that his mare during pregnancy loses the foal or the foal is born dead.

Typical payment terms for the stud fee:

  • 5,000 euros, 50 % in coverage, 50 % with a positive fall - examination on October 1.
  • 5,500 euro, after positive fall - examination (determination of gestation by a veterinarian ) in October
  • 6,000 euros, living in three days foals.

In the thoroughbred breeding in Germany, the stud fee for normal stallions approximately 500 to 2,500 euros for the middle class is approximately 3,000 to 6,000 euros, and for good to very good stallions a stud fee 7000-15000 euros due, in some cases up to 20,000 euros.

A special case is the exceptional stallion a monsoon in Germany, for a stud fee of currently € 150,000 is called.

The figures quoted relate to the breeding season 2007/2008.

Dog Breed

In the breeding of dogs, the payment of a cover fee is common. The appropriate arrangements are made by the owner of the bitch and the stud owner and these are largely free. However, breeders within the FCI Breeding Rules are rules on such matters in the event that " national law, regulations of the national associations and their pedigree breed clubs and associations and [ ... ] special agreements " do not make such. In this breed Procedure stipulates that the correct runny mating is a prerequisite for the cover compensation, independent of a in pregnancy. The breeding regulations also refers to agreements that have to be taken in the event that a puppy will be agreed from the expected litter as stud fee.

Swell

  • Owners association for thoroughbred breeding and racing eV (ed.):. Stallion Book 2008 Cologne 2008.
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