Meadowgate is a unique and important cause for your sponsorship and donation.  Your sponsorship allows us to financially maintain a stall and start a recovery process through a horse’s individualized rehab program.  There are two types of sponsorship:

The first is Specialized Stall Sponsorship.  The specialized stalls, or quarantined stalls, play a vital role in the first step of a horse’s recovery process.  “Quarantined” stalls require high maintenance.  The quarantined stall is set up differently from a general stall in that it has matted floors and walls to discourage the spread of any infectious diseases or any other contagious illnesses.  We take disinfecting measures once the horse has passed the first step by obtaining a negative Coggins certificate and has received medical clearance from the vet before we move the horse to a general stall.

Your stall sponsorship also provides the horse with a feed bucket, a water bucket, and grooming supplies.  These items follow the horse, once they have been disinfected, through the rest of its rehab program.  Specialized Stalls vary in sizes from 12 x 12 to 16 x 16.

The second is General Stall Sponsorship.  Your sponsorship of a general stall provides support to the maintenance and repair of a stall due to destruction, damage, or daily wear and tear caused by the horse assigned to that stall and all the bedding materials required.  Bedding requirements can be different per stall and are based on the horse’s condition and needs.  This sponsorship also includes support for larger foaling stalls for mares that come into Meadowgate with foals at their side.  General stall size at the facility is 12 x 12.  Foaling stalls are 14 x 14, or 16 x 16 depending on the breed of the horse that has arrived.

With your donations, we are able to meet the needs of horses that cannot be placed.  These are usually older horses with few medical issues but just need a place to live the rest of their life in peace and safety after a life of abuse or neglect.  The funds are used to maintain vaccinations, de-worming regiments, ferrier and vet care, as well as grain and hay.

We also post an engraved brass plate on the stall who the sponsor is for each horse.

Barn Addition Fund

Always a need here!  As Meadowgate grows so does the needs of the barn.  Our barn currently has several large box stalls, but needs to add 5 more stalls down the middle of the barn allowing us to accomodate more in one building.  As this space is used for stalls our current indoor riding/training area will be taken and we will need to add on an indoor riding/training arena.  Donated funds or building materials for this project are greatly needed and completion of this second phase will also allow Ponderosa Pals programs an indoor working area to use.