I may get to half-lease a horse. She is really great. I would lease her from my instructor, and the horse is an incredible jumper. It is $650 a month to full lease and $325 for half-lease. I have to help pay for her. I need some ideas that a kid can do to get many for her. HELP?
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A great way to earn money for keeping a horse is doing odd jobs around the barn. Ask the barn manager if there are any working programs you could be in. at my barn, a lot of younger girls work by tacking up horses, cleaning stalls, sweeping the barn, cleaning tack, ect. If you know how to bathe and braid horses, you can help some of the girls who do horse shows get ready (for a fee of course.) If you're old enough to baby sit, that's a great way to get some cash also.
Depending on your age, you can get a waiver signed and be able to have a 4 hour job. If not try the simple,and work for family and friends for what ever odd jobs they have for you.
This must be some horse. In my neck of the woods a person can lease a riding mare (no jumpers or show horses) for $800 a year, then pay for feed/keep and vets. Are you asking for ideas to get "money" to make this work, or "Many" something else? If it's "money" clean stalls, put the animals in and out and work around the barn(s). Once you have proven to be a good employee, you may get hired to exercise people's horses. For people working a 40 hour week, an evening or two off from exercise would be worth it.
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i have a very strange leasing agreement with my trainer. i have a buisy schedule, between school, friends and everything else, some weeks i can only come and ride once and other weeks i can come 5 days out of the whole week. so my agreement is that i can go and practice on the horse that im "leasing" and i pay $10 each ride.
The horse sounds like fun.
You could talk to your instrutor about being a working student, depending on what sort of barn you ride at. Maybe you could give begginer riding lessons, school horses, clean stalls, feed horses, anything the owner wants and it would be your half or maybe all of the lease fee. Thats the way a working student works. :) Talk to your trainer about it and see where she stand on the idea of working students b/c sometimes the trainer/owner of the barn/horse doesnt want to work it that way. Somtimes for reasons like, the student doesnt have enough expericance, trainer doesnt feel comfortable around the student (meaning the trainer gives orders the student doesnt follow them correctly and the trainer feels uncofortable having to re order the student.) or sometimes they just dont want to do it that way. they'd rather have all the money. Talking it over is the only way to find out. good luck
Personally, I think you are paying WAY too much. I own a horse and I keep him at a very nice barn and board is only $310 a month. Best way to make money, get a job. I you're too young maybe you can do something around the barn, help beginners tack up for lessons, groom school horses, feed horses on Saturdays.
That is way too much.
First off to all you people who say the price of the lease is too much, you must remember that every state %26 even cities w/in that state are on different cost of living scales. Where I live these prices sound pretty normal! I'd love to know where the gal paying $310 a month lives!
Secondly, working off board is usually the way to go w/these arrangements. Otherwise maybe do some babysitting or find neighbors or friends of parents who need odd jobs done around their homes.good luck!
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