Michigan State University Horse Teaching and Research Center

Welcome to the MSU Horse Teaching and Research Center walking tour. Our first stop is our main building and indoor riding arena.This building includes our managers office, the restrooms, and a classroom area. When you look inside o... Read more

Now, we're going to move to the next tour stop, which is our exercise areas that are just to the north of the main barn. You will observe two large turn out areas for our stallions. The outdoor riding arena is enclosed with whit... Read more

Stalls  Another stop is the upper barn, also called the main barn. This barn has twenty four stalls to house our show horses, breeding stallions, horses in training, or injured horses that might require special care. The stalls are 1... Read more

The stallion paddock provides a turn-out space for the farm's many stallions. Only one stallion is allowed in a paddock at a time. The paddock includes special fencing built specifically for stallions.

The next stop is the draft horse barn which is the low, smaller shed with the hitching rails in between our older barn and the main barn. Some days you may observe students grooming large draft horses tied to the hitching rail. Thes... Read more

This gambrel-roofed barn was originally located on the main MSU campus and was moved to this location in sections. This barn contains 24 stalls. In the spring, this barn becomes almost completely full with mares close to foaling or who have... Read more

This building hosts the farm’s breeding facilities. There are breeding stocks where mares are brought for pregnancy checks, biopsies, cultures, or artificial insemination. There is a laboratory to check semen quality and prepare semen for... Read more

One thing to know is that most of the horses at this farm are purebred Arabians and they were bred here, foaled here, raised here, and trained by students.  We have roughly fifteen to seventeen foals born on the farm every year. So you can... Read more