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Reitstall Lucas

Lengerich, Germany

Reitstall Lucas is a family-run livery yard at Sudderweh in Lengerich, Lower Saxony, where the emphasis is on keeping horses in harmony with nature. The yard offers full boarding, professional schooling (Beritt) and an aqua trainer for conditioning and rehabilitation work. Horses are worked across dressage, jumping and western riding, and the surrounding countryside opens onto long hacking routes. The family also lets a holiday apartment on the yard and hosts occasional events.

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Equine therapy

Mobile Tierheilpraxis Barbara Kruse

Lengenbostel, Germany

Barbara Kruse runs a mobile animal naturopathy practice based in Sittensen, travelling to the owner's home or yard so that animals can be assessed in their familiar surroundings. Her treatment methods include phytotherapy, western herbs used within TCM, magnetic field therapy, mycotherapy, laser therapy and nutritional advice, with an individual therapy plan drawn up for each patient. She works alongside the treating vet, physiotherapists, trainers and the farrier rather than in place of them, and stresses that naturopathy complements conventional veterinary care. She also runs seminars for owners. Fees follow the German fee schedule for animal naturopaths, with travel charged per kilometre from Sittensen.

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Equine therapy

IAVC - International Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic

Lengenbostel, Germany

The International Academy of Veterinary Chiropractic (IAVC) is a private post-graduate teaching institution in Freetz, Lower Saxony, founded by Dr Donald Moffatt and Dr Sybil Moffatt. It trains qualified veterinarians and chiropractors in animal chiropractic, with species-specific basic courses for horses and for dogs. Advanced and CPD modules cover applied kinesiology, cranio-sacral therapy, myofascial kinetic lines, the equine foot and ankle, and Stammer Kinetics. Enrolment is restricted to qualified veterinarians and chiropractors.

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Tierärztliche Praxis Dres. Moffatt, Seehafer & Schwartau

Lengenbostel, Germany

Tierärztliche Praxis Moffatt, Seehafer & Schwartau in Sittensen was founded in 1999 and was among the first practices in Europe to offer veterinary chiropractic. The team provides orthopaedic care for horses and small animals, combining chiropractic treatment with acupuncture, diagnostic imaging and conservative rehabilitation. Horses are seen both at the practice and on visits to the yard, and clients travel from across the region and abroad. Preventive musculoskeletal checks form a large part of the work alongside treatment of existing problems.

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Veterinary clinic

Dr.med.vet. Edmund Kuhmann

Lengede, Germany

Tierarztpraxis Dr. med. vet. Edmund Kuhmann is a mixed veterinary practice in Klein Lafferde, part of Lengede in Lower Saxony, with a second surgery at Gadenstedt near Ilsede. The practice is organised into three areas: horses, farm animals and small animals, and draws on long experience in large-animal work. Farm-animal services include abomasal surgery, laparotomy with right-side fixation by the Hanoverian method, caesareans, umbilical hernia repair and dehorning. In-house diagnostics cover bacteriological testing of milk samples, parasitological examination of faecal samples, statutory livestock blood testing for BHV-1, BVD, leukosis and brucellosis, and fertility work-ups. Consulting hours run Monday to Friday at both sites, with additional Saturday hours at Gadenstedt.

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Ankerhof Natürlich-fair-Pferd

Lemgow, Germany

Ankerhof Natürlich-fair-Pferd is a horse training yard and activity farm at Volzendorf in the Lemgow, Lower Saxony. The training is built on natural, fair methods, and the yard takes horses in for schooling, offers training placements and runs courses and workshops. A second strand is the activity farm, with pony sessions, holiday programmes, children's birthday parties, animal encounters and animal sponsorships. There is also a campsite and a trail-riding station for riders travelling through.

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Andreas und Corinna Wegener

Lembruch, Germany

Wegener Sporthorses is the Wegener family's sport horse yard at Lembruch on the Dümmer lake in Lower Saxony, with a particular focus on ponies. The business schools and produces horses and ponies and trains their riders, and sells produced horses to private buyers. Livery and use of the yard's facilities are available to clients. The family also hosts small-group riding and nature holidays on the farm.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie Mobil+Fit, Kirsten Graubohm

Leiferde, Germany

Mobil + Fit is the mobile equine osteopathy practice of Kirsten Graubohm, a qualified equine osteopath and human physiotherapist based in Braunschweig. She treats horses at their own yard so the animal is not stressed by travelling, offering osteopathic treatment, massage, dry needling and laser therapy. Her regular round covers the greater Braunschweig area together with Wolfenbüttel, Peine, Wolfsburg, Gifhorn and Celle, and further locations on request. Because she also treats people, rider and horse can be looked at together.

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Training barn

Elena Dridi Pferdeverhaltenstraining

Leiferde, Germany

Elena Dridi is a horse behaviour trainer based at Leiferde in Lower Saxony. Her work centres on communication between handler and horse, applying learning principles to resolve unwanted behaviour without force. Sessions cover everyday handling such as leading, grooming and tying up, as well as structured groundwork with a range of training aids. The aim is a trusting partnership built on clearer signals and better body-language awareness.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie Ina Holz

Lehrte, Germany

Pferdeosteopathie Holz is run by Ina Holz, a licensed veterinarian who also trained as an equine osteopath in the Welter-Böller method and holds IAVC certification in equine and canine chiropractic. Her practice covers the Celle region and combines osteopathy, chiropractic and trauma therapy (VPO) with cranio-sacral, fascial and visceral work. She also offers classical and laser acupuncture, stress-point massage after Jack Meagher, taping and thermal physiotherapy. Movement analysis, tack assessment, feeding advice and training guidance round out the service.

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Equine therapy

Bianca Lüecke PFERDEOSTEOPATHIE

Lehrte, Germany

Bianca Lüecke is a DIPO-certified equine osteopath based in Lehrte, east of Hannover. She treats horses on their own yards across the Lehrte, Peine and eastern Hannover area. Osteopathic work targets restrictions in the musculoskeletal system that show up as stiffness, asymmetry or resistance under saddle. Appointments are arranged directly by phone or through the contact form on her site.

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Dr. med. vet. Silke Stricker

Lehrte, Germany

Dr. med. vet. Silke Stricker runs a veterinary practice at Lehrte near Hannover devoted to classical homeopathy, phytotherapy and regulation medicine, fields she has specialised in since the 1990s. She works as a visiting practice, coming to the animal at home or at the stable rather than seeing patients at a surgery. Alongside general naturopathic treatment her stated focus areas include metabolic disorders of the horse, gut restoration, plant medicine, behavioural medicine and orthomolecular medicine. She is a member of the International Association of Veterinary Homeopathy and of the homeopathy and phytotherapy sections of the German society for holistic veterinary medicine. Telephone and email consultations are offered alongside visits and are billed under the German veterinary fee schedule.

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Equine therapy

Pferdeosteopathie Jennifer Meßing

Lehrte, Germany

Healthy Horse Hannover is the equine osteopathy practice of Jennifer Meßing, an osteopathic equine therapist trained in the Welter-Böller method and based at Lehrte near Hannover. She uses holistic manual treatment to find and release movement restrictions and functional disorders. Typical cases range from performance and rideability problems to rehabilitation after injury. She also treats horses of all ages preventively, before a small restriction becomes a lasting one.

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Veterinary clinic

Tierärztliche Praxis für Pferde Oliver Tinschmann

Lehrte, Germany

Oliver Tinschmann runs a mobile equine veterinary practice based in Bröckel in the Celle district. The practice travels to the horse, carrying modern portable equipment for examination and treatment on the yard. Its stated priority is taking time over the consultation and examining each horse thoroughly before deciding on treatment. General horse medicine, diagnostics and preventive care are all covered.

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Stud farm

Hannoveraner Zucht von Boehn

Lehrte, Germany

Blutgeprägte Pferde is a Hanoverian sport-horse breeding programme run by Bernhard von Boehn in the Hannover region. The breeding aim is to cross classical Hanoverian foundation lines with elite thoroughbred blood to produce sound, intelligent horses with genuine athletic ability, particularly for jumping. Breeding stock and broodmares are offered for sale and stallion partnerships are arranged, with matings supported by analysis of WBFSH performance data rather than by fashion. The programme works with the veterinary clinic at TiHo Hannover and with the Landgestüt Celle.

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Reit- u. Fahrverein Hämelerwald

Lehrte, Germany

The Reit- und Fahrverein Hämelerwald was founded in 1972 just outside the village of Hämelerwald near Lehrte. It is mainly a leisure-riding club but brings in outside instructors for dressage and jumping lessons. The yard has 7 pony boxes and 15 horse boxes, two of them outdoor boxes, with all-day summer grazing and winter turnout on outdoor paddocks. There is a small indoor school, a 20 x 40 m arena and hacking straight from the grounds, plus the club's own school horses and ponies. Lessons run for children and young people at the weekend and for adults during the week.

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Equine therapy

Sportpferdetherapie Fricke

Lehre, Germany

Sportpferdetherapie Fricke is Lena Fricke therapy practice for sport horses, based in Lehre near Braunschweig. The work focuses on the strain that training and competition put on a horse body, using physiotherapy and manual techniques to release blockages and relax musculature. Horses returning from an injury layoff are brought back into work step by step. Riders are also coached on movement and training principles so the results hold between treatments.

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Equine therapy

Equi(e)motion - Pferdeosteopathie

Lehre, Germany

Equi(e)motion is an equine osteopathy practice run by Janina Starchikow from Lehre, serving the Braunschweig region. Treatment combines osteopathic work with rehabilitation training, from the first day of box rest through to a return to full work. Massage, kinesiology taping and written treatment reports round out the hands-on side of the practice. She also offers osteopathically informed riding and groundwork instruction, equine feeding advice, and online consultations including gait analysis.

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Boarding facility

Reitstall Behrens Lehre

Lehre, Germany

Reitstall Behrens is a family-run full-board livery yard in Lehre, Lower Saxony, with 25 boarding places offered either as boxes or as open-stable spaces. The horses spend the day outdoors in gender-separated groups on paddocks with constant access to fresh water and hay, moving onto the directly adjoining meadows in summer and into the barn or the fully surfaced open-stable area each evening. Feeding is exclusively low-dust, high-quality hay from the yard's own production, with wood or straw pellets used for bedding to keep the barn air near dust-free. Facilities include a bright 20 x 40 m indoor arena with an ebb-and-flow surface, an outdoor arena, a horse solarium and a wash area, and the yard keeps allergy-friendly and emergency boxes. All breeds and riding styles are welcome, although horses shod with iron shoes on the hind feet cannot be accepted for safety reasons.

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Reit- und Fahrverein Lehre u. Umgebung e.V.

Lehre, Germany

Reit- und Fahrverein Lehre und Umgebung e.V. is a volunteer-run riding club founded in 1987 between Braunschweig and Wolfsburg. It teaches children from the age of four upward on its own three ponies and four horses, working through a three-stage training system. Lessons cover far more than riding: members learn horse care, stable management and feeding so that they can eventually look after a horse of their own. The yard has two open stalls and paddock boxes, and members can keep and train their own horses on the facilities.

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Reitschule nurhappy

Lehre, Germany

Reitschule nurhappy is the riding school of Nathalie Pawlik at Essehof near Lehre in Lower Saxony. She is a state-certified physiotherapist as well as a qualified riding instructor and horsemanship trainer, and brings both backgrounds to her teaching. Lessons cover ridden work and groundwork, with the emphasis on improving how horse and rider move together. Courses and clinics run through the year alongside regular instruction.

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Equine therapy

Vet-Bioresonanz

Leezdorf, Germany

Vet-Bioresonanz is the practice of Beatrix Dreyer in Upgant-Schott, East Frisia, offering bioresonance-based hair analysis for horses. Owners send in a hair sample and receive a report covering physical findings alongside behavioural and emotional observations, together with treatment suggestions. Two programmes are available: a standard analysis returned within about fourteen days and an express option within one to three days. Bioresonance therapy sessions are offered as a follow-up to the analysis.

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Reit- und Ferienhof Goldberg

Leezdorf, Germany

Reit- und Ferienhof Goldberg is a family-run riding farm at Adeweg in Leezdorf, East Frisia. It runs an established riding and vaulting school and takes guests of all levels out on guided trail rides across the surrounding countryside. Privately owned horses are boarded on the farm with individual care. The farm also lets holiday apartments and offers catering and wellness treatments alongside its equestrian programme.

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Face to Face Ulrike Fischer

Leer (Ostfriesland), Germany

Face to Face is the equine training practice of Ulrike Fischer in Leer, East Frisia, built around the working relationship between horse and rider. Training simulates everyday and deliberately unusual situations so horses gain confidence and riders learn fair, clear leadership. Alongside individual sessions she runs courses and events on horse behaviour and handling. The practice also offers magnetic-field and laser therapy for horses. Her guiding principle is that everything is possible and nothing is compulsory.

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