Horrible stables! Unsafe fencing, small stalls, inadequate ventilation, no bedding on a regular basis. Horses standing in urine/feces for days at a time. Stalls may ""appear clean"" but if you dig down, you will find packed urine. Horses always suffering from thrush and left UNTREATED. Owners horses are thin, overworked or left to stand in stalls all day long. There's no middle ground. Less than 5 acres of inadequate fields for turnout. Usually the stables have anywhere from 15-20 horses. Each horse would require at MINIMUM one half acre. You can do the math. Fields are full of weeds, not grass. Outdoor arena is used as a turnout and it's held together, literally, with ropes and has NO grass in it! Very unsafe barn. I wouldn't house a barn cat there, let alone my horse! Owners are not knowledgeable about horses and have been known to attempt to treat colic by shoving a hose up a horses butt or down their throat with no regards to whether the hose lands in the lungs or not and no vet is ever called for colic or any other condition unless owners feel ""threatened"" by volunteers or other boarders that the humane society will call. Stalls are not ventilated and the boarding agreement states that there will be barn fans in each aisle. I was there 4 months and there were NO fans. Water buckets were slimy and located too high for many horses to reach them comfortably but they stayed full which caused an insect problem. Stalls are full of dung beetles. Stay as far away from this stable as you can. Their claim that the Lippizaner Stallions stayed there IS true, but it's when the barn FIRST opened and the owners had the money to make it look nice and no one knew how bad it could get once the money ran out.
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