Horse jobs?

Question

Currently, I am hoping to find employment in my area. I was thinking the other day what jobs I could do as a teenager, and get to be around horses. Do you think that I could succesfully start a (the only word I can think of is business, but it sounds wierd.) job or something where I( excercise people's horses after school if they are sick or on vacation or something? Take them out of the stables or something for awhile, get them to excercise and such.

Do you think it would be possible to do a job like this? We live out in the country, so it's not like it's a fruitless venture, I'm sure I could get atleast one person, but I'm not sure how well it would work. How much would I charge? Also, I'm only 15 and have school and such, so i could only work after school and weekends.

I've got a fair amount of experiences with horses, western and english lessons. Taken care of a few horses before, and I know it would take lots of work.

Answer 1

I'm sure you could do it. I used to care for people's horses when they went out of town and such. Mainly fed but if they would be gone longer than say a weekend they would have me exercise them either by lungeing or riding in the arena or pen, depended on the person and the horse. The first thing you have to do is build a reputation. If you have friends that have horses that are older (not like as in 2 years older ) but actual adults or even your parents friends throw the idea out to them that the next time they leave town or are down and out due to illness you would be happy to come by and help them out. Don't mention money to the friends , just offer it. Most adults will try to pay you anyway and if they do grasiously accpet it and say it really was no problem. Word of mouth will soon spread and you may ahve people calling you. just make sure they understand weekends and afterschool are all you can do right now. Also you might print up some flyers that advertise a "horse sitter" service for weekends. Once again emphasising after school and weekends is the only time you can work until summer gets here. The fee you charge is dependig on your area and what you feel comfortable charging. Sinc eyou are 15 I assume your parents would have to drive you and b/c they would be taking time out of their day to do this I would suggest maybe giving them a little in gas money (5-10) the rest save up for yourself. I usually got paid 100 a weekend by neighbors, others paid more, some less. Once i got esablished it was a pretty steady 100 to 115 per weekend. This is Friday feedings, cleaning out stalls, Sat feedings and watering and sunday maintence too. If they asked me to ride i never really charged more b/c I viewed that as experience gained in my book and why should I pay for ecpanding my riding ability and knowledge. It's fun isn't it? lol That was just my way of looking at it. Hope this information has helped you and good luck in your venture:)

Answer 2

like everyone has said the key is to establish a reputation. though I have never cared for anyone's horses but my own ( I didn't want that responsibility if soemthing went wrong!) I think if you put up some ads in the local feed stores you would probably get a good response. If I go out of town i have a very reputablie "sitter" who comes by and feeds for me and i pay them quite well. But they don't ride them, just feed and take them into paddocks and back to stalls. I'll sometimes even have them stay at the house to keep an eye on things especially if it is foaling or breeding season. One year I actually caught someone in my barn at my stud's stall as i returned from a show. Thank God he was with me and not in that stall b/c one he could have hurt the guy and 2 the guy could have hurt him. After that incident is when I started having the sitter stay over on weekends when I was away. i pay her 350 to stay Friday, Saturday and Sunday mornings. It all will come down to what people are willing to pay for your services and what you fell is the right amount to charge.

Answer 3

My wife did that when she was a teenager,and through her character and dedication to doing the right thing she made not only alot of money,but people talked about her hard work and honesty to friends and before long she was in such demand that her father had to put up another barn on his place just for her customers.(Then she did the silly,joined the army and met me,lol)but like some one else said,insurance,you can get insurance on yourself and property too.While it's sad to say there are people out there that will claim you did it even if you didn't so protect yourself.And also,get and keep with you a list of vets and farriers in the areas you'll be working,you never know when one or the other might be needed.And good luck,I wish you well on your " horse arobics".

Answer 4

Maybe you could muck out stables for a price (£5-10 per stable)?
You could turn horses into the field or bring them in if the owners are at work or busy (£3-7 per horse).
You could feed their horse or look after if in the afternoons after school if the owner is busy.
Remember not to take on too much work as it can interfere with school and make sure your mum/dad knows whta you are doing!

Answer 5

I think it just might work! I have a friend who has a large horse (Percheron mix) and she hires a teenager to feed him and clean his stall on alternate days. The horse is boarded on a family's property so the parents are on hand to help as needed, but you might be able to get work at a stable.

Call around and find out- and if they say no, call the next one and the next. Then start over calling the first ones again. Be persistent.

In the meantime you can probable easily convince neighbors to let you walk their dogs while they are at work!

Answer 6

Even with the amount of work, it sounds like a great idea. Ask around, and see if there are people that would hire you as an exercise person. If you have a local stable or farm nearby, they might have some interest.

Answer 7

Well you could work at a barn and clean stalls and clean buckets and bring horses in and out of the fields. You could even exercise some horse or help the little kids.

Answer 8

I think that is a great idea! I would make up flyers and put them in peoples mail boxes in the area. Just be sure that you know what the horses are like before jumping in with them so you don't get hurt.
good luck!

Answer 9

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Answer 10

where we board the lady has a young man who helps her out with the horses and various other jobs like fixing fence im sure you could learn alot doing this check around good luck