|
|
Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
   
Location: North Dakota | To wash horses for someone? A lady offered to pay me to bathe her horses and I'm not sure how much I should ask for.
ETA There's only 2 of them and she's heading out to a show tomorrow and doesn't have time.
Edited by cavyrunsbarrels 2015-06-10 12:07 AM
|
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1280
Location: Texas | $10/hr. is a fair wage where I live for part time (student?) help. |
|
| |
|
 A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | I would say 20 a horse  |
|
| |
|
 Elite Veteran
Posts: 999
Location: Sunny So Cal | I would charge $20 a horse too. Are you using your supplies? |
|
| |
|
  That's White "Man" to You
Posts: 5515
| $20 a horse. |
|
| |
|
Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | She had shampoo/conditioner for them. I had to leave before she got there so I'll settle up with her when she gets back from the show. $20 a horse sounds good! Just about pays for the bit I just bought lol. |
|
| |
|
A Somebody to Everybody
Posts: 41354
Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | Maybe she'll tip you and you can get the bit all payed for  |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 4121
Location: SE Louisiana | I'd charge $10/horse if she is providing the stuff you use. But, I always enjoyed washing horses and hated to be paid to do something I loved doing. You can get a wide array of reactions from horses. Everything from WT* IS THAT??! to, the horse that pokes you with it's nose if you miss a spot.
Teaching a horse that water coming out of a hose is not a 'horse eating monster' is almost always funny, if you do it right.
Edited by komet. 2015-06-10 6:18 PM
|
|
| |
|
 Veteran
Posts: 148
| 20$ a horse for bathing |
|
| |
|
 Elite Veteran
Posts: 1062
Location: Probably On the Road to the Next Barrel Race! | ...really?? $20 a horse? Hell would freeze slap over before I would pay that much!! Just my opinion...$20 for two horses total... |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 1718
Location: Southeast Louisiana | If all you did was bathe, I'd say $20 for both is fair. If you bathed, did manes and tails, maybe clipped them and got them ready for a show, maybe then $20 a piece. |
|
| |
|
Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | komet. - 2015-06-10 4:24 PM I'd charge $10/horse if she is providing the stuff you use. But, I always enjoyed washing horses and hated to be paid to do something I loved doing. You can get a wide array of reactions from horses. Everything from WT* IS THAT??! to, the horse that pokes you with it's nose if you miss a spot. Teaching a horse that water coming out of a hose is not a 'horse eating monster' is almost always funny, if you do it right.
My last mare was NOT funny. She was 6 so I figured she'd have been bathed at some point...nope. She would panic if I even tied her in the wash rack (which is not good since it was cement). My vet had to sedate her just to wash her leg off before an injection. My horses now don't mind baths at all. Cash likes drinking out of the hose. The horses I washed for this lady were very good. The young one was kind of over it by the end but it wasn't bad. |
|
| |
|
Meanest Teacher!!!
Posts: 8555
Location: sunny california | there is no way I would wash two horses for $20. there are a lot of things to consider. Your time from the moment you leave your place to the moment you get back and are ready for the next job. that might require you to clean up depending on what you do. plus gas and supplies. I highly doubt someone could drive and wash two horses and get back in less than two hours. If I was already washing horses and just adding two more to the list I would charge differently. I think I wqould make sure I pocketed $15 an hour |
|
| |
|
 You get what you give
Posts: 13030
Location: Texas | I guess it depends on your age, your spare time, how far away you are, how much of an inconvenience it is.. idk..
as a kid, I would have done it for free and then some just to get to do it. If I was at a boarding stable and had nothing to do that day and was already there, I would not charge either.. I would just do it.
If I had to drive out and do it I would probably charge something, but idk. Also depends on if we are friends or not. Some random person asking me to bathe horses I would accept money but friends helping friends out I would consider it a favor. But I have no idea what the situation is. |
|
| |
|
 Chicken Chick
Posts: 3562
Location: Texas | I think $20 a horse is fair. I would pay it if someone was getting my horses ready for a show. Now $20 a horse for someone to do a quick wash just to get the majority of the dirt and sweat off, I probably wouldn't pay that. |
|
| |
|
Expert
Posts: 1280
Location: Texas | kwanatha - 2015-06-11 9:07 AM there is no way I would wash two horses for $20. there are a lot of things to consider. Your time from the moment you leave your place to the moment you get back and are ready for the next job. that might require you to clean up depending on what you do. plus gas and supplies. I highly doubt someone could drive and wash two horses and get back in less than two hours. If I was already washing horses and just adding two more to the list I would charge differently. I think I wqould make sure I pocketed $15 an hour
I guess I'm in the wrong line of work.. Nobody EVER has paid for my drive time to/from the job. If i were needing help, I would pay for the hours worked. It's not like paying for a professional service- like a farm call charged by vets. |
|
| |
|
Red Bull Agressive
Posts: 5981
Location: North Dakota | Well we both board at the same barn, so it takes me a half hour to get there from my house, but I was going anyway. It took me roughly 2 and a half hours to completely finish both horses. This isn't like a high school job or something, I'm in my 20's and have a full time job, I just happened to have a day off and she offered to pay me to do this because she didn't have time before she had to leave. It is a little bit of easy spending money so why not?
Edited by cavyrunsbarrels 2015-06-11 4:35 PM
|
|
| |
|
Meanest Teacher!!!
Posts: 8555
Location: sunny california | tracies - 2015-06-11 12:38 PM kwanatha - 2015-06-11 9:07 AM there is no way I would wash two horses for $20. there are a lot of things to consider. Your time from the moment you leave your place to the moment you get back and are ready for the next job. that might require you to clean up depending on what you do. plus gas and supplies. I highly doubt someone could drive and wash two horses and get back in less than two hours. If I was already washing horses and just adding two more to the list I would charge differently. I think I wqould make sure I pocketed $15 an hour I guess I'm in the wrong line of work.. Nobody EVER has paid for my drive time to/from the job. If i were needing help, I would pay for the hours worked. It's not like paying for a professional service- like a farm call charged by vets.
It is because it is such a small amount of work. |
|
| |
|
 Night Chat Leader
Posts: 13150
Location: Home....Smiling M Farms | I'm sorry, if somebody charged me $20 to wash a horse, I'd never call them again. $10, take some $$$ off my board (since you pay this lady board), have her buy you dinner, or something like that. |
|
| |
|
 Expert
Posts: 1304
| I personally don't find it bad to pay someone $20 but that would depend on the degree of how dirty they were and if they also needed groomed, etc. if it's a quick wash and the horse wasn't that dirty than I wouldn't pay much. Just depends. I don't think it's bad! |
|
| |
Folks on-line