ABSTRACT
Housing facilities play a role in reproductive management. Stallions should be maintained where they have visual and vocal social, but not tactile, contact with other horses. With the exception of pasture breeding, the stallion should be housed in a stall or paddock by himself. He needs exercise, whether free or controlled, on a regular schedule. Stallions that do not get enough exercise may develop vices that lead to problems in the breeding shed. As important as housing are the facilities where breeding is performed. Stallions are creatures of habit and perform more consistently if this activity is conducted in the same place at each breeding or semen collection.
