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| Someone who cares for your 11(4 broodmares, 3 foals, 1 two yr old currently at track, 2 yearlings, and a geriatric donkey. 7 days a week, 2x a day. Care includes feeding, water, administering meds, brushing, fly spray daily, stall cleaning, meeting or hauling to vet as needed, Ordering alfalfa. Going to feed store. Halter breaking foals and yearlings. Management of funds ie paying the bills etc. Its roughly 30 hours a week but its 7 days and on call in case of emergency.
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Location: Opelousas, LA | $650 a week at least unless you provide housing. If you can find someone dependable enough to do all that and not steal you blind in the process, consider yourself very lucky.
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Wow thats a full time job taking care of someone else's horses like what you just subscribe, I say 600 to 700 a week and expenses paid { fuel } during the time of hauling and picking up feed. Wow and they want you to manage funds too? Yep thats a full time job. |
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| Being the teacher that I am , I think a lot would depend on how educated the person was. A young kid , first real job with high school education.... 500-600 a week. College educated candidate with a degree in animal science/ finance/ accounting , well 1000 a week to start with benefits , vacation, etc. |
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Location: N Texas | FLITASTIC - 2018-06-22 9:35 AM
Being the teacher that I am , I think a lot would depend on how educated the person was. A young kid , first real job with high school education.... 500-600 a week. College educated candidate with a degree in animal science/ finance/ accounting , well 1000 a week to start with benefits , vacation, etc.
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Location: Illinois | FLITASTIC - 2018-06-22 9:35 AM
Being the teacher that I am , I think a lot would depend on how educated the person was. A young kid , first real job with high school education.... 500-600 a week. College educated candidate with a degree in animal science/ finance/ accounting , well 1000 a week to start with benefits , vacation, etc.
I have a BS in Accounting & 2 Associate degrees in equine science and I don't even make that much working 40 hours a week lol. I got paid $1,000 week plus housing & meals with the family as a loper in TX doing all of the above, but for 30 horses & 70 acres, working 12-16 hour days. Some weeks I made more when the stall cleaners would quit & I had to add 15 stalls to my daily list. I'd say more around the $500-700 mark for what they're doing with just 11 horses and 30 hours |
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| JLazyT_perf_horses - 2018-06-22 7:51 AM
FLITASTIC - 2018-06-22 9:35 AM
Being the teacher that I am , I think a lot would depend on how educated the person was. A young kid , first real job with high school education.... 500-600 a week. College educated candidate with a degree in animal science/ finance/ accounting , well 1000 a week to start with benefits , vacation, etc.
I have a BS in Accounting & 2 Associate degrees in equine science and I don't even make that much working 40 hours a week lol. I got paid $1,000 week plus housing & meals with the family as a loper in TX doing all of the above, but for 30 horses & 70 acres, working 12-16 hour days. Some weeks I made more when the stall cleaners would quit & I had to add 15 stalls to my daily list. I'd say more around the $500-700 mark for what they're doing with just 11 horses and 30 hours
You absolutelty deserve 1000 a week!!! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Taking care of the horses and handling bills I would want more of an experience man/women with common sense and honest, a college education dont mean much if theres no experience there, I think a hard working honest person deserves a good pay even if they dont have a college degree.
Edited by Southtxponygirl 2018-06-22 10:14 AM
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| FLITASTIC - 2018-06-22 9:35 AM
Being the teacher that I am , I think a lot would depend on how educated the person was. A young kid , first real job with high school education.... 500-600 a week. College educated candidate with a degree in animal science/ finance/ accounting , well 1000 a week to start with benefits , vacation, etc.
I also have a Bachelor's degree and don't make this must doing design drawings for a manufacturing company. I wouldn't pay this much by any means. I worked for $8/hr at a boarding facility taking care of 50+ head. About the same hours you just described...dragging arenas, throwing hay, fixing fence, etc. Also picking up beer bottles and trash from roper's parties the night before. Equaled about $300-400 a week. |
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| I have been doing all these things and then some for the past 3 and 1/2 years, holidays too. I don't have a college degree or a vet tech license but I work my arse off without being told what to do. |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | iloveequine40 - 2018-06-22 7:03 PM I have been doing all these things and then some for the past 3 and 1/2 years, holidays too. I don't have a college degree or a vet tech license but I work my arse off without being told what to do.
So you are doing all this yourself, I sure hope that you are getting payed what you are worth, that is alot of work that your doing.  |
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Location: Arkansas | Southtxponygirl - 2018-06-22 10:12 AM
Taking care of the horses and handling bills I would want more of an experience man/women with common sense and honest, a college education dont mean much if theres no experience there, I think a hard working honest person deserves a good pay even if they dont have a college degree.
This, exactly. . . . Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you know one single thing about taking care of horses. I know tons of educated folks with degrees that I wouldn't leave someone else's horse with, let alone my little darlings!!! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Chandler's Mom - 2018-06-22 8:33 PM Southtxponygirl - 2018-06-22 10:12 AM Taking care of the horses and handling bills I would want more of an experience man/women with common sense and honest, a college education dont mean much if theres no experience there, I think a hard working honest person deserves a good pay even if they dont have a college degree. This, exactly. . . . Just because you have a degree doesn't mean you know one single thing about taking care of horses. I know tons of educated folks with degrees that I wouldn't leave someone else's horse with, let alone my little darlings!!!
I know a few that do have a degree in a few fields that was mention in this thread and they do have horses but they sure dont need horses as they dont have the common sense that is needed when owning horses. LOL.. |
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| At least $25k yearly, roughly. Depends on housing, etc. I'm currently managing 175-350 beef cattle (accounting for calves in that) and make around that with a house, rent covered only. Now I don't have to feed, just check every day and do other major farm/crop chores (making hay, installing waterers, working cows, fencing, etc) but in the winter I feed 1-2 times a day and make sure everyone's water isn't frozen multiple times a day. Anyway, big job! It seems full time to me and I'd say in that range would be fair personally.
ETA: I'm also on call for any type of emergency or urgent farm need. It sucks at times so a decent pay or some sort of added benefit is needed. Keep in mind if they don't live on the farm, they should live near it in case of emergencies!!!
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| Also I'll add that I have a bachelor and Masters and while I worked my butt off to get it, it doesn't always mean everything. Hands on experience does me the best. Regardless of education, I stand by that salary I listed if not more depending on additional benefits (housing , boarding) provided. |
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| No I don't get housing. I live 5 miles from the farm. I've been trying to find weekend relief but to no avail which is why I posted this thread. I'm paid decent and have a lot of freedom in middle of day but sometimes I just want to sleep in on a Sunday. I have a lot of horse experience and continue to gain more as I work everyday with them. My boss can be very demanding sometimes but does not micro manage bc je knows I'll do my job. |
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| I totally feel your pain. While my job is flexible in a sense, I miss having weekends and evenings off no doubt about it. But I guess there's pros and cons to every job so I try to look at that. Do you have any friends you can trust/know what they're doing that would fill in on a Sunday for some cash? Maybe talk to your boss about it and see how it goes. Even if you could find someone to feed on the weekends and you be called if there's an absolute emergency |
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| blccwgl55 - 2018-06-23 5:52 AM
I totally feel your pain. While my job is flexible in a sense, I miss having weekends and evenings off no doubt about it. But I guess there's pros and cons to every job so I try to look at that. Do you have any friends you can trust/know what they're doing that would fill in on a Sunday for some cash? Maybe talk to your boss about it and see how it goes. Even if you could find someone to feed on the weekends and you be called if there's an absolute emergency
He's ok with me hiring extra help but finding someone has been so hard. |
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