A woman has been found guilty under Alberta's Animal Protection Act after seven neglected horses were found on her property, some injured and others covered in feces.

Haeli Carter, of the Tofield area east of Edmonton, was fined $1,000 at the end of November in provincial court in Vegreville, SPCA officials announced Tuesday.

Under a court order, Carter can own a maximum of 10 livestock by the end of this year. She also has to provide bi-monthly reports to the SPCA listing all of the animals she owns.

"It certainly gives us a vehicle to be able to monitor the care and control of the animals on this property," said Morris Airey, director of enforcement for the Alberta SPCA.

'Still haunted:' veterinarian

Investigators discovered four foals crammed in a small pen without food or water in November 2005. One was already dead and another needed to be put down.

"I'm still haunted very much also by some of the conditions of the animals I saw on Haeli Carter's farm," veterinarian Jodie Santarossa testified.

"I can't even describe to you the severe neglect, abuse, emaciation, sickness, disease, rot [and] stench that permeated, especially out of that barn. It was atrocious."

Three more older horses were also injured — one was blind from an untreated eye disease and two had painful untreated injuries, said Morris.

In 1999, Carter was found guilty in provincial court of one count of causing or permitting distress to at least two horses in her care under the provincial Animal Protection Act.