Stallion Group-Keeping in Theory and Practice
Version: 2009.06.10
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Foreword and Acknowledgments
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As many might now, I myself do not have any stallions, not even any horses. I am just a messenger who by chance has sufficient writing tools and time. The one who echoes and writes down what others should know as well.
Everything started after Ferdi replied to a classified add of mine in a news paper in the year 1998, in which I called for stallion owners to form a stallion owner community. When I saw Ferdi's already existing stallion group keeping of four stallions I knew immediately that this man had realized a dream of mine, the one of keeping stallions in a group, all by himself already. Admittedly I knew from literature and from my own gut-feeling that this dream was realizable, but I hadn't expected to see find dream already realized at this time in Switzerland!
At that time, and unfortunately perhaps even today there was nothing comparable in Switzerland and, even if two of them where "only" pony stallions, even in the surrounding countries one would have to search a while to find a stallion group-keeping with several adult stallions.
So, out of pure enthusiasm I traveled to Ferdi's place, often armed with a camera, and took pictures of what could not be seen anywhere else: Adult stallions in a real stallion group-keeping!
Therefore my biggest thanks for this paper go to Ferdi Wirth. Without him and his horses it would probably never have come to be. My Ferdi find infinite copy cats with his stallion group-keeping!
I would also like to thank Anita Geiss-Behner of the Stöckerhof in Germany and Dani Menzi and Sarah from Switzerland. They have notified my about a few interesting details from their own experiences with stallion group-keeping.
Mark Schmid, in spring of 2003
Ferdi on Indio
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