share-herding

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.
   • 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.1988, Jeremy Swift, Major Issues in Pastoral Development

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Noun

shareherding (uncountable)

1. The practice by which one herder cares for the livestock of another, in return for a percentage of the profits or offspring.
   • Describing the shareherding contracts by which young men acquired the wherewithal to marry, he asserted that, "consequently, even in the homes of the poorest New Mexicans, there is never a dearth of the means to satisfy the necessities of life and even to afford the comfort and luxuries of the...1991, Pobladores: Hispanic Americans of the Ute Frontier, page 175