First and foremost I take exception to Meadowcrest Farms calling itself a ?rescue?. Any facility or person that ?adopts? intact animals is NOT a rescue facility. I know for a fact that in Nov. 2009, Sharon SOLD three intact colts. I had vet appts. (of which I was paying for) for two of the colts to be gelded and she cancelled the appointments and sold them.
This facility is not a 501c3 non-profit organization and your donations are NOT tax deductible. Meadowcrest is not registered as a rescue group with the state of Missouri. Any reputable rescue group would have these credentials.
The following comments are a result of actual observation by myself, as I was a boarder there for 2 years. These are not speculation or heresay but actual truths.
Many of the horses at Meadowcrest are rescue horses but they do not get any better physically or mentally at this facility. My advice is to please rescue a horse from this place and take it away immediately. Why do I say that?
Some of the reviews say the horses are not mistreated. I guess it depends on your definition of mistreatment. I actually witnessed Sharon screaming at horses, hitting horses, threatening to hang her donkey Donetello because his hooves were so long and she was having trouble trimming them. The hooves were long due to her lack of trimming, not because he came from a rescue situation.
Is it considered mistreatment when horses stand outside in fetlock deep mud for months? Or, get no vet care unless it is an emergency? Or, get no hoof trims unless a potential adopter is interested in a horse?
Is it mistreatment when her husband refuses to feed the pasture horses round bales because he?s mad at Sharon? Or, almost everytime you go out to the place, especially in the summer and horses have no water? I personally filled water buckets and troughs many, many times because the horses had NO water.
Stalls are poorly cleaned if you are a boarder. Rescue horses stalls were very rarely cleaned. My mare is a rescue and is very susceptible to thrush but for 2 years her stall was a wet mess. No matter how much I commented and complained, it never changed. My husband had to clean her stall everytime we came out.
In addition, we had to buy extra bedding because Sharon refused to put more than a shovel or two in each stall. Her excuse was bedding was expensive. Hmm, as a boarder, wasn?t that what I was paying for?
If Sharon is ?all about the horses?, why did she refuse to give my mare needed medication? Her reason was it was too much trouble for her and it was expensive so I really didn?t need to buy it. Her exact quote, ?I just don?t have time to do that with everything else I do!?
The final straw occurred when my mare slipped and fell in her stall and I was not told. She is 25 years old and was lame due to the fall. I was told by several boarders that saw the incident. I immediately called my vet and it was determined that the fall was a result of the poor stall conditions. I immediately began looking for a new facility.
Other observations: So many bunnies stuffed in a cage that they suffocated, Llamas confined to a stall with goats and rarely turned out, the goat pen with so much mud and so many goats, that goats got trampled and suffocated in the mud, and 2 stallions stall bound and rarely ever see turnout. That is just a few observations, I could continue but space is limited.
Meadowcrest has TOO MANY animals. They live in squalor and filth with minimal attention. Adopter beware!
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