Melrose Stable is a privately owned equine facility dedicated to owners who desire specialized services and quality care for their horses at a reasonable cost.
Located
on US 127
between Danville and Harrodsburg, Kentucky, 40 miles southwest of Lexington and 75 miles southeast of Louisville.
Phone
859-238-0093
Fax
859-236-7488
The equine facility you've been looking for...
Paddocks and fields at Melrose Stable range in size from three to 40 acres. To provide safety between groups of horses, paddocks are separated by an aisleway. Some fields have natural spring water, but all are equipped with city water. The predominant fencing systems are diamond wire and four-board style fences.
The main barn has 14 by 14-foot stalls with 12-foot ceilings. Open-front stalls and doors in the mare barn allow easy viewing of horses. The foaling stall is 14 by 28 and is equipped with two closed-circuit cameras that transmit to a monitor in the stable office. Pregnant mares are monitored with the Foal Alert system, widely trusted as the “best birthing alarm system” available. Foal Alert transmits an alarm message through a telephone autodialer upon the onset of parturition.
Services offered at Melrose Stable include:
Boarding
Breeding
. . (stallion services and
. . transported semen)
Infertility solutions
Foaling
Mare care
. . (short and long term)
Embryo transfer
Yearling development
Geriatric care
Lay-ups
Winter care for show horses
Melrose Stable
keeps an area
devoted to the
evaluation of
stallion semen.
T O P
Birthing system
The Foal Alert system with telephone autodialer.
Mare teasing
Teasing mares is accomplished via a miniature horse stallion. Mares placed in a padded stall adjacent to the stall housing the teaser. An electrically operated "window" is opened in the partition wall between the mare and teaser to allow contact, without risk of injury to the mare. Mares are teased daily.
Extended photo period
Stalls for pre-breeding mares are equipped with added light fixtures to maintain greater than 20 foot-candles of illumination and are controlled by electronic timers to accomplish 15 hours of "daylight" per day. Mares are started under lights December 1.
