Pig farm experience

vet_student

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.

gazahayes

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 😀

ganmo

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

gazahayes

ganmo wrote: »

What was the last straw

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

Sam Kade

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.

bogman_bass

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!

White Clover

Templemore??!!

tractorporn

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?

roosky

Bradys piggery in mullingar

gazahayes

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.

gazahayes

White Clover wrote: »

Templemore??!!

Nearer to nenagh

Nekarsulm

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

MF290

gazahayes wrote: »

Nearer to nenagh

I think that one went over your head

Farrell

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

davidk1394

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 ?

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 !

MF290

roosky wrote: »

Bradys piggery in mullingar

Are they not Longford?

roosky

MF290 wrote: »

Are they not Longford?

No there is a different bradys in Killucan near mullinggar