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Pig farm experience

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  • 13-07-2016 11:10pm
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    vet_student
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    Hi all, I'm a vet student in UCD and I'm wondering if there are any pig farms closer to Dublin or in the Leinster area where I could do some work experience. Just basic husbandry and use of AI and things like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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    gazahayes
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    vet_student wrote: »
    Hi all, I'm a vet student in UCD and I'm wondering if there are any pig farms closer to Dublin or in the Leinster area where I could do some work experience. Just basic husbandry and use of AI and things like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    We had a vet student in last week in north Tipp after 3 days he said he knew enough so he didn't have to stay any longer 😀


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    ganmo
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    gazahayes wrote: »
    We had a vet student in last week in north Tipp after 3 days he said he knew enough so he didn't have to stay any longer 😀

    What was the last straw?

    Op the only Dublin pig unit I know of is Lyons
    Outside of that there's one in nurney, a few near slane and a few in Wexford


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    gazahayes
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    ganmo wrote: »
    What was the last straw

    He told the lads he was there to observe not work!! He'll be some vet!


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    Sam Kade
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    gazahayes wrote: »
    He told the lads he was there to observe not work!! He'll be some vet!

    Mammy and daddy are probably paying for his tuition or else he is a city boy that doesn't want to get his hands dirty but wants the title of a vet. Either way he's going down a slippery road, you can't be a vet and not get your hands dirty.


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    bogman_bass
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    gazahayes wrote: »
    He told the lads he was there to observe not work!! He'll be some vet!

    He probably has no intention of working with large animals. He's probably right too!


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    White Clover
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    Templemore??!!


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    tractorporn
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    vet_student wrote:
    Hi all, I'm a vet student in UCD and I'm wondering if there are any pig farms closer to Dublin or in the Leinster area where I could do some work experience. Just basic husbandry and use of AI and things like that. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


    Kiernan farms in Longford?


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    roosky
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    Bradys piggery in mullingar


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    gazahayes
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    Sam Kade wrote: »
    Mammy and daddy are probably paying for his tuition or else he is a city boy that doesn't want to get his hands dirty but wants the title of a vet. Either way he's going down a slippery road, you can't be a vet and not get your hands dirty.

    His father is a vet in a big enough practice mostly horses I think he deals with. Any pig vets are specialised and do only pigs.


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    gazahayes
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    White Clover wrote: »
    Templemore??!!

    Nearer to nenagh


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    Nekarsulm
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    Costello's in Nurney. If they still have the place out in the former East Germany, he might get a stint out there too!


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    MF290
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    gazahayes wrote: »
    Nearer to nenagh

    I think that one went over your head


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    Farrell
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    Think there's a place in Dunshaughlin, remember a friend doing his Ballyhaise placement there


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    davidk1394
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    If your willing to travel there's a lot of top notch piggerys down this way. Judt out of interest is there many people on this getting vet students during calving or lambing ?


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    roosky
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭roosky


    davidk1394 wrote: »
    If your willing to travel there's a lot of top notch piggerys down this way. Judt out of interest is there many people on this getting vet students during calving or lambing ?

    A farmer that get students said to me " them vet students are a waste a time, they are too interested in learning and not working"......so he pretty much wanted slave labour !


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    MF290
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    roosky wrote: »
    Bradys piggery in mullingar

    Are they not Longford?


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    roosky
    Registered Users Posts: 996 ✭✭✭roosky


    MF290 wrote: »
    Are they not Longford?

    No there is a different bradys in Killucan near mullinggar


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