Kabiuk is the earliest stud farm in Bulgaria. It was started in 1864 by Midhat Pasha, the Governor of the Danube Province, as a military stud farm for the Turkish army. The stud farm is on the Shumen Plato, 13 km northeast of Shumen; the average altitude is 194 m. Even in the first years of its operation, the number of horses reached about 1000.
	Later, in the course of the 1877-78 Russian-Turkish War, all horses were transported to Anadola by the withdrawing Turkish army. The newly liberated Bulgarian state found the stud farm empty. In 1883, an attempt was made to revive its operation as the newly formed Bulgarian army severely needed horses. However, that was a wasted effort: the breeding horses were of poor quality and there was no qualified staff. That was the reason why the stud farm had to close down four years later. The actual revival of its activities was in the autumn of 1894 and the farm was called Kabiuk National Stud Farm, Stallion and Sdtud Depot. Since then, it has always been active. As early as it started its operation, the farm had different supplementary departments: cattle breeding, sheep breeding, pig breeding and poultry breeding. Initially, they only satisfied local needs while later they were transformed into breeding departments. That is why in 1991 the farm was renamed into State Livestock Farm and Male Brood Animals.
A later name of the farm was Vasil Kolarov State Agricultural Farm. As of 1963, Kabiuk has been part of the structure of the Bulgarian Academy of Science, with different descriptions attached to its name: Vasil Kolarov National Livestock Breeding Farm, Kabiuk Experimental Buffalo and Horse Breeding Farm, Kabiuk National Semen Breeding Center and so on. When the Livestock Husbandry Act was adopted in 2004, the company was renamed into Kabiuk State Company. Under that act, it shall stay 100% property of the state, it shall be governed by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forests and shall be protected against privatization and bankruptcy. Its key activities are horse and sheep breeding and state-funded preservation of indigenous cattle and sheep breeds in the genetic reserve existing in the company.
The farm owns 28320 decares; 20671 decares is arable land, the rest is meadows, pasture-grounds, constructions, etc. The central area covers about 20000 decares, and the other two branches are Malkata Mera, about 7600 decares 15 km from The Central, and Shumen Hippodrome - about 400 decares - 13 km from The Central, in the northern corner of Shumen.    The company is structured into the following departments: Stud Farm Sheep Breeding Reserve Cattle Breeding Swine Breeding Field Husbandry