share-herd

English

Alternative forms

• share herd

Verb

share-herd (third-person singular simple present share-herds, present participle share-herding, simple past and past participle share-herded)

1. To care for the livestock that belong to someone else, in exchange for a percentage of the profits or offspring; to work as a shareherder.
   • 1988, Jeremy Swift, Major Issues in Pastoral Development:

     Another goal was to raise the general level of herd productivity to that of herder-owned and managed herds from the lower level of productivity in herds containing a significant number of share-herded animals.

   • 2013, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter Little, Michael Carter, Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa, →ISBN:

     She share-herds two sheep from her aunt's son.

Noun

share-herd (uncountable)

1. (most often used attributively) The practice by which someone works as a shareherder; shareherding.
   • 2011, A.J. Jordaan, Drought Risk Reduction in the Northern Cape, South Africa. PhD thesis, University of the free State, South Africa:

     Little et al. (2006) reported that households who lost animals during drought remained vulnerable and poor six years after the drought in Ethiopia, and poor families had to borrow animals (often on a share-herd basis) to restock their herds after the 1998-2000 drought.

   • 2013, Christopher B. Barrett, Peter Little, Michael Carter, Understanding and Reducing Persistent Poverty in Africa, →ISBN:

     At a time when the very poor were desperate to recover their few animal assets they also took on animals from wealthier households on a share-herd basis (that is, a contract where in exchange for herding the poor share in herd offspring usually on a 50/50 basis), permitting the best off households to avoid labour and feed costs while reaping gains in herd growth.