Breeding operations and stallion stations — find a farm to stand your mare or shop the next generation.
Circle S Quarter Horses specializes in breeding, raising, and training registered quarter horses. They focus on preserving high-quality bloodlines and ensuring their horses have good dispositions. The business offers stallions for breeding and emphasizes the training and care of their horses from birth to sale.
Ferme Equestre Excalibur is a horse riding school that also engages in horse breeding. They have a roster of stallions and offer horses for sale. The facility is dedicated to equestrian activities and breeding, providing a comprehensive service for horse enthusiasts.
Stall Tunxdorf is a family-run Friesian horse yard in Papenburg-Aschendorf, Lower Saxony, with stabling for more than 30 horses. The Lemstra and van Ingen Schenau family breed Friesians and raise their own foals, following the DFZ and KFPS studbooks. Training services include breaking in, corrective schooling under saddle, driving training and preparation for breed shows. Marit van Ingen Schenau runs weekend riding clinics built around individual lessons for riders from beginner to advanced, rounded off with hacks through the Tunxdorf forest. The yard also offers sale horses and brokers purchases and sales on behalf of clients.
Zuchthof Hollen is a 40-hectare breeding and training operation at Oyten, established by Vanessa and Ian Callender. It covers the full path from breeding and raising young stock through schooling and on to sale. The site has dedicated breeding and foaling stalls together with a riding hall and boxes, and an exercise hall with storage is planned.
Hof Osmers is a family farm at Bockhorst near Oyten, worked by the same family since 1749 and breeding Hanoverian horses since 1967. The broodmares come from long-established family lines and are covered exclusively by top stallions from the Celle state stud. Foals and young horses grow up with close daily human contact alongside the farm's suckler-cow herd. Feed is grown on the farm's own 70 hectares of arable land, so very little industrially produced feed is used.
Pferdestammbuch Weser Ems e.V. is a stud book organization focused on horse breeding in the Weser-Ems region. They are involved with various horse breeds, including Shetland Ponies, Haflingers, and Deutsches Reitpony. The organization facilitates breeding programs, provides information on stallions, and lists sales. They also organize events and maintain records for successful ponies.
Pferdesportzentrum Lorenz is a full-service equestrian centre in the Teufelsmoor near Osterholz-Scharmbeck, run by the Lorenz family. The yard offers livery and paddock boxes, indoor riding halls and outdoor training arenas for horses in work. It also breeds sport horses and regularly has horses for sale. Holiday accommodation on site, a main house, a guest house and a holiday home, lets visiting riders stay on the yard.
Stoeterij Welfare is a horse breeding operation located in Finsterwolde, specializing in the selection of stallions that complement their mares. They focus on breeding quality horses with good sport potential and character. The farm also discusses the lineage and performance of their stallions, indicating a commitment to high standards in breeding.
Klus Quarter Horses is a small German Quarter Horse breeding operation in Nordhorn, close to the Dutch border, run by Kerstin Klus. Breeding is aimed at good temperament and correct conformation, and the yard stands three breeding stallions in unusual colours - dunskin, classic champagne dun and gold champagne. Stallions are offered for natural service in hand, and breeding stock and foals are sold from the yard. Mares are taken in for covering and care, including rehabilitation cases and horses needing allergy management. Horses are kept in an open stable with turnout options.
Pferdezucht Tegtmeyer is an FN-certified Hanoverian breeding and livery yard run by Claudia and Elke Tegtmeyer on the North Sea island of Norderney. It breeds dressage and showjumping horses and offers young stock for sale directly from the breeder. Horses are backed and trained on the yard using calm, horse-friendly methods. The operation also runs a Bed and Box arrangement, so visiting riders can holiday on the island with their own horse.
Friesenzucht Meentzen breeds Friesian horses at Hof Sarve, a traditional farm in the Wesermarsch near Nordenham. The fertile marshland has supported horse keeping here for centuries, and Gralf Meentzen has run the Friesian breeding programme since 1990. The aim is the baroque, large-framed and noble type of Friesian, selected for temperament and good natural ability. Broodmares and young stock are presented on the farm, and horses bred here are sold as family horses as well as for dressage and carriage driving.
Welsh-A-Gestüt Leybucht is a family-run Welsh pony stud on the Leybucht near Norden in East Frisia, kept by Enno and Stephan Siemers. It breeds Welsh Mountain Ponies of Section A alongside Welsh Ponies of Section B, and stands several licensed stallions at stud. Foals and young ponies are offered for sale each year. The stud hosts an annual stallion presentation and foal show where the broodmare band and current foal crop can be seen.
Rippe - Lachnit is a sport-horse breeding partnership based at Reiterweg 3 in Nienburg an der Weser, Lower Saxony. The partnership breeds and produces German sport horses and presents its young stock on its own website. Competition results achieved by horses from the breeding programme are published alongside them. Enquiries about horses are handled directly by the partners.
The Terhorst family farm at Niederlangen in the Emsland, first recorded in 1534 as the Joos Hof, has combined arable farming with horse breeding for many generations. Horses are kept on extensive land in light, airy stables and fed home-grown forage, and the farm runs a qualified breeding programme. In 2001 a veterinary practice specialising in horses was added on the farm itself. A modern indoor school and a 60 m dressage arena complete the equestrian facilities. Visitors are welcome to come and see the yard.
Zuchthof Janssen is a family farm in Neuschoo in East Frisia, close to the North Sea coast, that breeds and raises Hanoverian horses. Mares are covered and their foals are raised on the farm own grassland, with youngstock kept out on the wide East Frisian pastures as they grow on. Alongside the horses the farm runs a cattle fattening operation. Photographs of the horses and the yard are published on the farm site.
Pferdezucht Peter Mahler is a Hanoverian breeding operation run by the Mahler family at Neuhaus in Lower Saxony. The stud keeps a band of state-premium broodmares and has bred licensed stallions and successful Verden auction horses. Alongside its own breeding it raises foals and youngstock for other breeders, with group housing over winter and large marsh pastures from late April to early November, and it also takes horses in for summer grazing. Daughter Kerstin Mahler, trained at the Hanoverian Verband in Verden, handles backing and schooling and presents horses at mare shows, mare performance tests, auctions and stallion licensings.
Sportpferdezucht Kuhlmann is a family breeding operation in the Dammer Berge near Neuenkirchen, in the heart of the Oldenburg horse country. Founded by Josef Kuhlmann and continued by his son Friedrich with wife Annelie and their children, the farm breeds Oldenburg dressage and jumping horses from nine home-bred broodmares whose lines have been kept in the family for up to four generations. Youngsters are raised on the farm's 30 hectares of grassland and offered for sale from weanling age through to ridden competition horses. The yard has an indoor school, dressage arena and jumping course, and has produced Grand Prix horses such as Don Lucca and international jumpers including Silvio and Galan.
Hartungshof is a family farm near the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony that specialises in breeding Mangalarga Marchadores, the Brazilian gaited breed known for its smooth marcha. Around 60 hectares of pasture support the herd, which is bred for strong natural gaits and an even temperament suitable for riders of many abilities. The farm sells young stock from foals up to five-year-olds as well as made riding horses, and offers stud service from its own stallion Excalibur vom Kreiswald. Alongside the horses the farm keeps Limousin cattle, sheep and donkeys. Sale horses are also listed publicly on ehorses.
Schnieder-Hoff is a small Hanoverian breeding operation at Neuenkirchen in Lower Saxony, run by Catharina and Timo Meins on a family farm. Breeding is built around a handful of mares from long-established Hanoverian lines, chosen for soundness, temperament and rideability. Foals and young horses raised on the farm are offered for sale as riding and competition prospects. The buildings were converted to a movement-rich, paddock-trail style of keeping, and the herd lives out with plenty of turnout.
Isländerhof Rutenmühle is a family-run Icelandic-horse farm in the Lüneburg Heath at Neuenkirchen, operated by Johann and Juliane Kath. The yard has an indoor school, a dressage arena, an oval track and a round pen, and runs holiday riding courses on its own Icelandic horses as well as taking guests who bring their own horse. It breeds and sells Icelandic horses and takes in young stock for rearing. Accommodation in three tiny houses on the farm lets riders stay on site for the length of a course.
Zum Thielen-Hof is a family farm near Müden an der Aller that keeps boarding horses alongside its agricultural work. Horses live outdoors in herd groups the whole year on around 17 hectares of pasture, with climate-controlled stabling available in extreme weather. Boxes are cleaned daily and each horse is fed individually, while young horses are kept together in an open-stall group. The farm also runs a small hobby breeding programme producing up to four foals a year.
Andreas Klinker is a sport horse breeder at Molbergen in the Cloppenburg district of Lower Saxony, working to the principle of putting the best to the best. The operation keeps a band of broodmares and presents each year's foal crop, its young mares and its young colts individually. Breeding results and the competition records of horses bred here are documented on the yard's own pages. Foals, youngstock and broodmares are regularly offered for sale.
Eliteponyzucht Vahrmann is a riding-pony and showjumping-horse breeding operation run by Anja Vahrmann at Meppen in the Emsland. The yard breeds deliberately in small numbers, keeping a select band of broodmares and putting quality ahead of volume. It also runs a covering station, so outside mares can be bred to its stallions. Foals are offered for sale each year and every crop since 2010 is documented on the site.
Stall Ramsbrock in Menslage, Lower Saxony, has been a name in the breeding and rearing of stallions for decades. The yard breeds and produces dressage and jumping horses, trained on the premises up to Grand Prix level. Its licensed stallions are available to breeders, and young stock is raised on the farm before being offered for sale. Training and instruction round out the services offered to owners and riders.
