Yes so do I, they’d learn far more 2/3 weeks at a good farm than they would in a classroom so if someone finds a good placement they should be allowed to go for it when that farm needs them - if it’s 2 weeks pre half term then that student could be on farm for a month, they’d learn an awful lot more! Lambing is the easy part with looking after sheep, it’s when lambs are 2-14 weeks old the work is needed that can’t be taught in a book - dosing/bolusing/dagging/feet/grading etc..
Agree 100%, let’s be honest there isn’t that much to lambing sheep inside, and two weeks in a shed lambing mules isn’t exactly setting you up for the industry of the future.
I’ve had students and workers that have done 7-14 days of being treated like a slave in a shed. Even if we have a lot of problems in and out we never leave the same person for a second day in the shed, tend to blitz it 2-3 times a day with a few of us and then head back outside, far less depressing!
That’s probably the daftest thing I’ve seen you write on here. It depends if you are on vet students or Agric students? Vet students have come here on second year placement after a first year outdoor lambing one. Learnt bugger all about lambing sheep, but done lots of shedding families off. That’s the sort of thing an Agric student needs too be learning. The vets should be in sheds learning how too deal with the problem ones! You don’t call the vet out if everything is going fine outdoors? (Personally I don’t call the vet out for lambing sheep full stop but plenty do) and too be honest the sheep industry of the future I think will have less vet involvement than it does now.
