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<blockquote data-quote="regolith" data-source="post: 640148" data-attributes="member: 9267"><p>The course was about $NZ600, and run by LIC at the local slaughterhouse - they parked a caravan for lunch/paperwork and we drafted out cull dairy cows as they came off the trucks then sent them back to the holding pens when we were done practising - so a fresh supply of cows 2 - 3 times a day.</p><p>But it's put me off selling my culls at this time of year <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> Wouldn't want it to be one of mine that got practised on.</p><p></p><p>I think I was the only one of the 8 people on the course who paid to do it. The others were training as LIC techs, and two or three had been doing their own herd for years and were just old enough now to have spare time to train up and go and do other people's cows - 2 week course to be a technician, 1 week for DIY training but the instructors reckoned it was too expensive and invited me back for the second week <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> </p><p>The cost included having the tutors check you doing some of your own cows in the following mating season - but I never took that offer up, as my in-calf rates seem to be pretty good.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="regolith, post: 640148, member: 9267"] The course was about $NZ600, and run by LIC at the local slaughterhouse - they parked a caravan for lunch/paperwork and we drafted out cull dairy cows as they came off the trucks then sent them back to the holding pens when we were done practising - so a fresh supply of cows 2 - 3 times a day. But it's put me off selling my culls at this time of year :( Wouldn't want it to be one of mine that got practised on. I think I was the only one of the 8 people on the course who paid to do it. The others were training as LIC techs, and two or three had been doing their own herd for years and were just old enough now to have spare time to train up and go and do other people's cows - 2 week course to be a technician, 1 week for DIY training but the instructors reckoned it was too expensive and invited me back for the second week :D The cost included having the tutors check you doing some of your own cows in the following mating season - but I never took that offer up, as my in-calf rates seem to be pretty good. [/QUOTE]
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