Re: Shortage of large animal vets taxes farmers

dstxus@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Emily

My daughter who's in vet school says this is known as a national
problem.

Its more than that, its an international problem
So is the problem of too many female students, and in their desparation to get more males, they are not always getting good'uns.
We have spent the last 6 years taking vet students for their poultry pre-clinical husbandry weeks, and those are from ALL over the world, literally, but a lot from the US
We have had anything up to 40 a year so got a good cross section over the years.
With the fees the overseas students have to pay to study over here, and it being their second degree, it is SCARY what they will finish up with as debts - some were expecting to be over $200,000 but the canny ones expect to have that paid, have a partnership, and a house by 5 years after graduating, and that was based on plenty of peoples previous personal experience.
As you say, there is money to be made over with you.

Over here I would say its also no longer a VOCATION to treat all animals, in all weathers, at all hours, investing all the money back into the practise. Its become more an idealised motivation to sooth poor little puppy dogs etc. for too many.
There are still those who start out wanting to do large animal and are strong and practical, and we were lucky enough to get our fair share of them, but experience again shows that by the time they are graduating they are no longer into large animal.
There is not the money you have to earn but with moderated hours, pretty much control over drugs, and selling extras like feed etc at surgeries, its a comfortable living.

We have been lucky to have old -fashioned vets, I have a fear that as we have just seen one retire that the practise will change like other places, and the balance will be more modern.
Its not good.

There are places in the UK who are also finding it difficult to get proper farming vets and its affecting the pattern of stock keeping.

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Jill Bowis

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