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Topic: Trakehner Stud Farm In Lithuania (Read 655 times)
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Elfe
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I love Trakehners!
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A lady from Latvia, who regularly posts on COTH, took these pictures of a Trakehner breeding farm in Lithuania:
http://s450.photobucket.com/albums/qq222/ozolkalni/09-07-09nemunas/?start=20
She gives this as contact info:
http://www.trk-base.com/horse.php?screen=1&id=16399
Apparently this farm has about 500 horses and about 60-70 foals each year.
Does anybody know if it is common to have such large Trak breeding farms in Eastern Europe ? Are costs there so much lower than in the US that this kind of enterprise is affordable ?
Or is it just a few multi- millionaires that do this ?
Are typical German farms this big ?
Thanks !
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Maren
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The further East you go, the more you see farms of that size. It is an amazing sight. It already starts in East Germany, Ganschow is a super example, they foal out around 70 foals per year (warmbloods and Trakehners). The place is simply mind-blowing. Join the International Breeders Tour this year and you'll see 
That aside, Nemunas is where Horalas for example comes from. And Kirov used to have this type of proportion, as does Liski in Poland to this day. This is a glimpse at what Trakehnen actually looked like when it still existed. Cost to keep a horse? Next to nothing. Cheap labor, very cheap (and high high quality) land/soil to raise horses. Actually the best in the world.
West Germany has no farms like that - the last one that tried this failed miserably, as you know .
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Elfe
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I love Trakehners!
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Where do all these horses end up ? Is there such a large market in Eastern Europe that it can absorb that many horses being bred every year ? And wouldn't these low cost breeders eventually drive their Western competitors out of business ? I am assuming there are no restrictions to selling horses between European countries, or are there ?
The size of that herd just blows my mind !!!!!!
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