The Facility:

Two separate barns and four outside stalls are available. Clean and spacious 12’x16’ box stalls await your horse. Each box stall is equipped with automatic heated waterers, individual infrared heaters, rubber mats and heavy bedding. Our stalls are light and airy, with dutch doors to the barn isle and to the outside.



Indoor, hot water wash stalls in every barn allow for perfect grooming at any time. We provide special care for the unique requirements of horses with extremely long manes and heavy feathers.

The facility offers six different pastures, each 3-10 acres in size. All pastures are fenced with 5 foot high, 4-railed vinyl fence to guarantee the safety of your horse.




In order to ensure the utmost in care and stress reduction, the horses of Windermere Farms are closely monitored throughout the entire import procedure. Horses which arrive at Windermere Farms for their Contagious Equine Metritis (CEM) Quarantine have been tested prior to departure from their respective countries. They are re-tested at the port of entry (usually Los Angeles) for Equine Infectious Anemia, and Equine Piroplasmosis, and are transported to our CEM-quarantine facility. Under caring guardianship, and in Windermere Farms own tailored transportation rig, they travel under USDA seal in a roomy, clean and comfortable box stall, monitored closely on their direct trip to Windermere Farms.


Quarantine Procedure

Stallion testing:
To complete testing of each stallion, two test-mares are cultured prior to the arrival of the stallion. A CEM-swab is taken from the stallion after his arrival. The stallion will be mated to each one of the test mares. The mares are then cultured 3 separate times over a period of 9 days to establish that no CEM bacteria have been transmitted from the stallion to the mares. A final fixation test follows on day 15, post breeding. The stallion is thoroughly cleaned and treated with an antibacterial agent, effective against CEM bacteria, on 5 consecutive days after breeding. All swabs must be submitted to the Federal, USDA approved, Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Iowa. Once all test results have returned with satisfactory results, the official USDA quarantine release is given by local USDA authorities. Duration: approximately 30 days.

Mare testing:
Mares are cultured after their arrival at Windermere Farms upon 3 different occasions within a 7 day period. Swabs are submitted to the Federal, USDA approved, Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory in Iowa. Upon the return of satisfactory lab results, the official USDA quarantine release is given by local USDA authorities. Duration: approximately 15 days.

Services provided at Windermere Farms during the CEM quarantine:
(There is no extra charge for any of the listed services. All are included in the regular quarantine fee at Windermere Farms.)
- All medical procedures required by the USDA
- Extensive daily pasture turnout
- Grooming daily
- 3 hay feedings per day
- 1 daily grain and supplement feeding
- Microbiotics daily
- Blanketing (if required)
- Light exercise daily
- 1 Shoeing
- 1 Worming
- Vaccines