Antw23uk
Well-Known Member
Hi guys, after some advise please.
Bit of background - Put my horse out on loan a couple of years ago for a years loan. We brought a property with land and stables so horse came home at the end of his years loan (been in property a year, he came home last June).
The lady who had him on loan has continued to ride him a couple of times a week which helped me out and obviously lessened the guilt I felt taking him off her, lol!. I needed a companion for him so made sense to make it a ridden horse which I now prefer riding. Old loanee/ sharer/ friend is now giving notice, she wants her own horse or loan at a yard closer to her home and I cant blame her, no one is at fault SO I now have a rather awesome 16.2 ISH sitting in a field about to do not a lot. I could ride two, I prefer riding my mare so it makes sense to find someone for him.
Has anyone successfully loaned or found a full time sharer with a horse kept at home and how did it work?
Do I loan him to stay on current yard and if so do I charge them livery? Do i find a sharer who wants more than 2-3 days a week and what, if anything, do I charge them?
If he was out on loan at a livery yard the loanee would buy/ dictate and do all feed/ supplements ect .. Does the same apply if he's at home? Do they get to chose their own farrier?
I dont have a school, I dont have transport. We have great hacking.
Do I advertise him for full loan for someone ideally with transport and they get to choose what discipline he competes in (he's a very good allrounder RC type) with the hope I can bum a lift to comps OR do I advertise him as a happy hacker which isnt ideal but its currently what he is until I get my own transport .. which isnt going to happen anytime soon because of finances
Any thoughts or advise would be much appreciated and thanks if you got this far and understood any of that rambling, lol
Bit of background - Put my horse out on loan a couple of years ago for a years loan. We brought a property with land and stables so horse came home at the end of his years loan (been in property a year, he came home last June).
The lady who had him on loan has continued to ride him a couple of times a week which helped me out and obviously lessened the guilt I felt taking him off her, lol!. I needed a companion for him so made sense to make it a ridden horse which I now prefer riding. Old loanee/ sharer/ friend is now giving notice, she wants her own horse or loan at a yard closer to her home and I cant blame her, no one is at fault SO I now have a rather awesome 16.2 ISH sitting in a field about to do not a lot. I could ride two, I prefer riding my mare so it makes sense to find someone for him.
Has anyone successfully loaned or found a full time sharer with a horse kept at home and how did it work?
Do I loan him to stay on current yard and if so do I charge them livery? Do i find a sharer who wants more than 2-3 days a week and what, if anything, do I charge them?
If he was out on loan at a livery yard the loanee would buy/ dictate and do all feed/ supplements ect .. Does the same apply if he's at home? Do they get to chose their own farrier?
I dont have a school, I dont have transport. We have great hacking.
Do I advertise him for full loan for someone ideally with transport and they get to choose what discipline he competes in (he's a very good allrounder RC type) with the hope I can bum a lift to comps OR do I advertise him as a happy hacker which isnt ideal but its currently what he is until I get my own transport .. which isnt going to happen anytime soon because of finances
Any thoughts or advise would be much appreciated and thanks if you got this far and understood any of that rambling, lol