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The Yard Owners OH shares my horse, in exchange I get free livery. However, the yard is being taken over by someone else and I am going to have to start paying livery again pretty soon.
My sharer has injured her knee and isn't riding (or doing anything else) at the moment. I don't think she will want to pay to share as she has another horse she can ride for free, I will discuss this next time I see her.
So I am considering looking for a new sharer in the near future, mainly to contribute towards costs, but don't know what I should be charging.
 
It will on depend on how much the sharer will get to ride & what they can do etc. I have a sharer who only hacks mine & rides on a sat & sunday (when she is available) & she pays £100 a month she doesn't have to do any jobs, just comes & rides then goes again & she has been with us over 2yrs. She has the chance to ride everyday if she wanted to as we told her she can ride as much as she wants, but she is happy to just ride weekends & maybe the odd week day.

Hope you find someone :)
 
I'm not sure if it depends on where you are, but around here (Lancashire) it's generally about £15 for 2/3 days, £20 for 3/4 days and £25 for 4/5 days, paid weekly. And for that they would help out with the jobs on their days.

We charge £15 for 3 days or £20 for 4 (we're currently in the process of trying to find a sharer at the mo!).

Hope that helps!! :D
 
As others have said, depends on how often the sharer would ride, and if they would contribute to any jobs as well.

When I was a teenager, my mum and I were sharers. The horse lived out all year round, so this probably made a difference, but his owner worked away a lot and only had time to ride him Sunday mornings and we could ride as much as we wanted, including hunting and competing, the rest of the time. We paid half of everything, but it worked out quite a good deal for us, and owner was happy as her formally obese cob was being worked regularly! We had this arrangement for about 7 years.
 
My first share horse I paid £100 a month, to ride twice a week. For those days he was fully mine, I had to do him morning and evening, mucking out, turning out, feeding etc. He was essentially a schoolmaster though so taught me a lot. I sometimes rode an extra day a week if I was having a lesson from his owner and there was only one day they could do.
I am in Hampshire though so it's possible it's more expensive here.
 
I think to an extent it probably does depend on what the horse is like/what you are able to do - Red can be an absolute prat at times, and is still fairly unschooled for his age (he didn't have the best start!), therefore I pay less than you would for a schoolmaster etc. We also don't have transport so we can't do much competing. I pay £15 a week for 3/4 days but will contribute extra for dentist/vet/osteo.
 
I pay £25 a week at the moment (although thus time I'm also paying for his shoeing and paying for half the feeds - owner has 2 horses on the same feed) I have the horse 7 days a week, I do ALL jobs bar the fetching in currently, I also rug and turn out the owners other horse every morning. Once we switch to night time turn out, I'll probably turn out and fetch in both horses every day. The owner is rarely at the yard and generally her son nicks out the other horse and fetches them both in. Works for me!
 
My sharer pays £15 a week for 2 days occasional weekend ( only has to do once a day) and all jobs inclusive of everything shoes etc
 
My sharer pays £35 per week for 3 rides per week. She is meant to do stable on her days but as she rides in the winter before work and has a 45min drive to get to the yard she would never get it all done and we would rather he was exercised. I usually do everything at the weekend as I'm rather particular about how the box is done and she isnt great at doing it. So effectively on full livery with great facilities - if she is running late I've quite often got him tacked up too for her! The help with exercising and the money is more important than the work though (I might not think that though when I get a new horse and will have extra to do).
 
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