In 2006 a team of new employees of the Swiss National Stud in Avenches, probably led by Mrs. Iris Bachmann, traveled to Modena in Italy to document a working group-keeping of 4 adult Freiberger breeding stallions which were kept together as a group, together with an adult donkey stallion, outside the breeding season. In a time when most horse people still believed adult stallions cannot be kept together as a group (even some famous horse whisperers such as Monty Roberts), the video documentation they made, although non-professional, must be regarded as downright spectacular and surely was an enlightening shock for many horse owners. When I saw the video on DVD and heard about the Swiss National Stud's interest in stallion group-keeping, I moved everything I could to get them to continue with the idea. After writing countless letters to private horse research-institutions, animal and horse-protection organizations to no avail, I had finally found someone capable of and perhaps even interested in creating a stallion group-keeping in Switzerland which could serve as an example for enlightenment and education of horse owners. I tried to make contact with the Swiss National Stud on a scientific level, as someone genuinely interested in the subject-matter. I sent them my article, "Stallion Group-Keeping - Species-appropriate Keeping instead of Castration" and I asked them many questions. Unfortunately, for reasons I did not and still do not understand, the Swiss National Stud was very opposed against working together with me from the very start and did not comment on or thank me either for my interest, my article or my work thus far on the subject-matter. Although I asked them repeatedly when they might start with their own stallion group, they didn't tell me, not even when they finally did start in 2008. Because I only rarely read horse magazines which are written for equestrians or little girls, I didn't know this until someone told me during a visit in Spain in 2009. Read more about the Swiss National Stud and its stallion group-keeping in the following contents: Swiss National Stud uses our Work but refuses Cooperation or anything in return  Reads: 193  (En: 89)