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<blockquote data-quote="milkmaid" data-source="post: 334381" data-attributes="member: 852"><p>A dairy would give you experience with everything from newborns to mature cows, lactating, dry, calving, etc. You'd get to see and likely deal with all ages and stages of cattle - and there's a LOT of strange things you can see on a dairy. Most of my experience with problems and treatment haven't come from dealing with my own herd. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p><p></p><p>The pay shouldn't be the most important thing right now - right now the most important thing is the experience. I've heard a lot of people talk about new vet school graduates they've encountered (shadowing the owners' main vet) that they'd never let work on their animals - because they lack common sense. You really need not just the experience, but also to learn some common sense stuff about working with the animals - a person can learn a lot by listening, and I've heard vets take a graduate out of their consideration for partnership, simply because the graduate came out for a week or two and showed a definite lack of common sense, and a large animal vet just can't have that when working around livestock.</p><p></p><p>A dairy might be easier to learn at because often times mature milking cows are calmer than calves or cows at other places might be (ie stockyard, feedlot, etc). Not to say dairies are always that way -- I've worked around a lot of young stock and fresh heifers that are wild as March hares. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="milkmaid, post: 334381, member: 852"] A dairy would give you experience with everything from newborns to mature cows, lactating, dry, calving, etc. You'd get to see and likely deal with all ages and stages of cattle - and there's a LOT of strange things you can see on a dairy. Most of my experience with problems and treatment haven't come from dealing with my own herd. :P The pay shouldn't be the most important thing right now - right now the most important thing is the experience. I've heard a lot of people talk about new vet school graduates they've encountered (shadowing the owners' main vet) that they'd never let work on their animals - because they lack common sense. You really need not just the experience, but also to learn some common sense stuff about working with the animals - a person can learn a lot by listening, and I've heard vets take a graduate out of their consideration for partnership, simply because the graduate came out for a week or two and showed a definite lack of common sense, and a large animal vet just can't have that when working around livestock. A dairy might be easier to learn at because often times mature milking cows are calmer than calves or cows at other places might be (ie stockyard, feedlot, etc). Not to say dairies are always that way -- I've worked around a lot of young stock and fresh heifers that are wild as March hares. :P [/QUOTE]
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