Stud farm

A stud ( also outdated Stuterei ) is an agricultural company which has specialized in horse breeding. Find the uncontrolled proliferation within the herd instead, one speaks of a wild stud.

The oldest still existing stud farm in Europe is the royal stables of the monastery Einsiedeln (1064 ) in Switzerland. Other famous stud farms are the National Stud Kladruby nad Labem ( 1579) in the Czech Republic, Lipica ( 1580) in Slovenia, the former Prussian Trakehnen (1731 ) and the Bábolna in Hungary.

Also breeding sites for donkeys are called studs, these are also referred to as Asinerie ( from Latin asinus for donkey).

State Stud of horse breeding in Germany

A state- run stud farm of the Federal Republic of Germany is called depending on the extent as state stud, main stud or main - and state stud.

Land studs

A state stud has to face the task of horse breeders quality stallions (so-called state stallion ) are available. In State Studs not have their own breeding is operated, but are provided solely for the private breeding stallions available. In general, the stallions are also just outside of the breeding season in a state stud, while being brought to smaller, distributed Deck stations during the breeding season in order to keep the ways of the breeder as short as possible and thus to accelerate the use of stallions by private breeders. Its foundation dates back to the 17th and 18th centuries. Main motive was the possibility to have a strong influence on the quality of private breeding by the stallions. But the promotion of agriculture and the provision of horses for cavalry and the ENHANCE the Treasury were drives for the entertainment of land studs.

Especially stallions of various warm-blooded and cold-blooded races are traditionally held on the State Studs, but in addition also Thoroughbred, Anglo-Arabian, Haflinger, heavy warmbloods and ponies.

The role of the state studs is increasingly called into question, as with the increasing mechanization of agriculture, the economic need for high-quality horses account for more and more. Stud farms were merged, privatized or completely dissolved again and again early in the 1950s and 1960s. Against the resolution of land studs However, moving the equestrian - and thus the horse breeding - an important economic factor which is strongly supported by the state studs.

Today's pure land studs:

  • Redefin stud (Mecklenburg ) founded in 1812
  • Hessian State Stud Dillenburg
  • State Stud of Saxony- Anhalt Prussendorf
  • State Stud of Zweibrücken ( Rhineland -Palatinate, Saarland ) founded in 1755
  • Lower Saxony State Stud Celle, founded on July 27, 1735
  • North Rhine- Westphalian State Stud Warendorf
  • State Stud Moritzburg (Saxony and Thuringia ) founded in 1815

In Schleswig -Holstein there after the dissolution of the State Stud Traventhal in 1960 no country stud. Its task now accepts the Association of Breeders of the Holsteiner horse ( Holstein Association ).

Main studs

State-run stud farms on which state stallion bred, so keep the stallions, mares and foals are called main studs. If the conditions laid down in a main stud stallions - so-called sire - also provided private breeders available as on a state stud, so the stud is called the main - and state stud.

Today's pure main studs:

  • Main Stud Graditz founded in 1630 / 1722.

Today's main and stud farms:

  • Bavarian Main State Stud Schwaiganger
  • Brandenburg Main and State Stud Neustadt / Dosse founded in 1788
  • Main and State Stud Marbach (Baden- Württemberg), stately stud since the 16th century
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