One
can assign an animal to a shepherd to be raised, sharing in profit and
loss. The shepherd needs to be paid wages, for otherwise his service
constitutes interest on that half of the animal that is a loan. The
offspring represents profits and can be divided.
If
the shepherd continues to care for the offspring after the prescribed
time of growth, he now takes ¾ of the new profits. Half of the
offspring is his, and the other half constitutes a new half-and-half
venture.
One may pay an independent son of a lender in order to obtain a loan from his father, and it is not considered interest.
