Breeding terms and conditions English 2025
VDL Stud is a recognized EU station with approval number: NL8490
Availabilty
- During the week, fresh semen can be ordered daily before 09:30 (08.30 UK time) and will be delivered the next day. For particular regions in Germany and in Belgium same day delivery and delivery in the weekend is possible. No delivery is possible on Sundays and bank holidays, however, you can always collect the semen.
- Pay full stud fee before delivery; payment of stud fee possible via bank transfer.
- Before the start of the first insemination, provide mare and owner data.
- All stud fees exclude shipping, export certificates and VAT.
- Stallions abroad may have a different delivery time, please take this into account when ordering. Higher shipping and export certificate costs will be charged for these stallions.
- If a stallion becomes unavailable at short notice during the breeding season for any particular reason (competition, fully booked, sickness etc.), we will offer an alternative stallion of your choice. In this case, you will only be required to pay the stud fee of the last stallion used. Stud fees are non-reimbursable.
- Our breeding season ends at Aug. 15th 2025.
- If the mare is not in foal, submit a declaration of your vet to VDL Stud and the inseminator by 1 October 2025.
- With this not in foal declaration, a VDL stallion of your choice can be covered in 2026 with a 50% discount of the stud fee paid in 2025.
- Transportation of semen abroad is at your own risk.
- In case you want to bring over your mare for breeding to VDL Stud: stabling fees at the regular stud station are € 7.50 (excl. VAT) per mare per day and € 12.50 (excl. VAT) for a mare with foal at foot. Different stabling fees apply for the Embryo Transfer Centre, see Embryo Transfer and ICSI.
- If you choose to bring your mare to the VDL Stud to be put in foal the passport should stay with the horse for our administration.
- By ordering and receiving the semen, the mare owner has taken note of our studfee and payment conditions and agrees to these conditions and studfees.
Frozen semen
- For information about which stallions are available with frozen semen you can contact VDL Stud.
- VDL Stud is not selling single straws, only pregnancies. Non-used straws must be returned to VDL stud.
- The number of straws can be different per stallion. Each dose will contain the correct amount of straws required for one insemination. The number of straws is determined at VDL Stud after each collection.
- All semen remains the property of VDL Stud. Selling of any unused semen is forbidden, the customer agrees to pay VDL Stud an additional full stud fee for every used or unused straw not returned to VDL Stud.
- Splitting, passing on and/or reselling a dose or straws is strictly prohibited.
- You can only use frozen semen on the mare who you ordered the semen for.
- An inseminationfee of €250 will be charged for frozen semen used at the VDL Stud station from a stallion that is not owned by VDL Stud.
Embryo transplantation
- When placing the first order, please indicate whether the semen ordered will be used for embryo flushing. If no indication is made, VDL Stud may charge a fine in addition to the stud fee.
- If no embryo(s) is/are successful, semen can be ordered again for this mare.
- Stud fee will be charged per successful embryo, this also applies to frozen embryos and if several embryos from one insemination are flushed.
- Mare owner must provide VDL Stud with an overview, prepared and signed by the veterinarian or ET centre, of the number of flushes and number of successful embryos per mare by 1 October 2025.
- VDL Stud will charge a fine of €15,000 for each undeclared embryo in addition to the stud fee.
- If the transplantation of the embryo was not successful, this overview will count as a not in foal declaration (if stated).
ICSI
- When placing the first order, please indicate whether the semen ordered will be used for ICSI.
- Per ICSI session per mare, the stud fee must be paid before the ICSI session.
- At the end of the year, the mare owner must pass on the successful amount of ICSI embryos to obtain a stud certificate.
Liability
- VDL Stud at Bears accepts no liability for any damage, illness or injury to people, animals, means of transport or otherwise.
- The horses stay with us and are handled at the owner's risk.
- Our company is subject to the General Breeding Conditions of the Bond of Stallion Owners as filed with the District Court of Utrecht.
Veterinairy services at the VDL Stud
- Veterinary service by Arts&Dier Bears; veterinarians Bert van Ittersum, Han Kingma and Margo Verbruggen.
- For mare service with fresh or frozen semen, a one-off fee of €200.00 (excluding VAT) or the price of €30.25 per ultrasound scan (folicle/pregnancy) is charged by Arts&Dier Bears.
- The mare service applies only to gynaecological guidance (sensing and scanning). Additional veterinary costs, such as injections, bacteriological examination, flushing, antibiotic treatments and/or operations will be charged to the mare owner by Arts&Dier.
For any further questions don’t hesitate to contact us at +31-582519473 or
info@vdlstud.com.
Documents :
Order form for :
Studfee The Netherlands :
| Availability: if a stallion is at a competition, frozen semen is available. |
Jumping stallions : |
| Arezzo 'Preferent' | € 1.500,- |
| Aston | € 800,- |
| Baltic 'Preferent' | € 1.750,- voor ICSI €2500 |
| Boston | € 1.100,- |
| Brantzau | € 1.000,- |
| Carrera | € 1.750,- |
| Cartello | € 1.750,- |
| Chicago Blue | € 800,- |
| Comthago | € 1.500,- |
| Etoulon 'Keur' | € 1.500,- |
| Etouruso | € 800,- |
| Everett | € 800,- |
| For Treasure | € 900,- |
| Glasgow van 't Merelsnest | € 1.500,- |
| Grand Slam 'Keur' | € 1.750,- |
| Hardrock Z | € 2.000,- |
| Harley 'Preferent' | € 1.800,- |
| Impressive | € 1.000,- |
| Inaico | € 1.250,- |
| Landino | € 1.000,- |
| Maximus | € 900,- |
| McAllister | € 1.000,- |
| Mindset ES | € 1.200,- |
| New Pleasure | € 1.000,- |
| Night Life | € 1.000,- |
| Norton | € 900,- |
| Nyrocco | € 1.000,- |
| Olsen W | € 800,- |
| Orleans | € 900,- |
| Pardino | € 800,- |
| Pommerol de Muze | € 1.000,- |
| Portorico | € 800,- |
| Pure Blue | € 800,- |
| Sambucci de Muze | € 1.000,- |
| Stargos | € 1.250,- |
| Toledo Z | € 800,- |
| Unedo van de Vondel | € 900,- |
| Zinelord | € 900,- |
| Zirocco Blue 'Preferent' | € 2.500,- |
Dressage stallions : |
| Barton | € 1.200,- |
| Expectation | € 1.000,- |
| Merlot | € 1.200,- |
| Treviso | € 1.000,- |
| Zoretto | € 1000,- |
Only frozen semen : |
| Bacardi | € 1750,- |
| Billy Congo | € 1.250 |
| Bubalu 'Elite' | € 1.200,- |
| Candy de Nantuel | € 1.650,- |
| Cantos 'Preferent' | € 1.500,- |
| Cardento 'Elite' | € 2.000,- (ICSI only) |
| Chaqui Z 'Elite' | Vaste kosten € 500,- bij dracht € 1600,- |
| Chin Chin | € 1.500,- |
| Chopano VA | € 900,- |
| Cohinoor | € 1.000,- |
| Comfortuna | € 900,- |
| Corland 'Keur en Elite' | € 1.250,- |
| Dallas | € 1.250,- |
| Davenport VDL | € 1.000,- |
| Douglas | € 1.250,- |
| Emilion 'Preferent' | € 1.250,- |
| Ermitage kalone | 1800 |
| Falaise de Muze | € 1.200,- |
| For Friendship | € 900,- |
| Gisborne | € 1.500,- |
| Glenfiddich | € 900,- |
| Hennessy | € 1.250,- |
| Herald III | € 1.200,- |
| Indoctro 'Preferent' | € 1.500,- |
| Inshallah de Muze | € 1.000,- |
| Jardonnay | € 900,- |
| Kallmar | € 1.000,- |
| Kannan | € 2.500,- |
| Liamant W | € 1000,- |
| Matrix VDL | € 800,- |
| Neymar VDL | € 900,- |
| Quasimodo van de Molendreef 'Elite' | € 1.250,- |
| Zenon | € 1.000,- |
