Went to OK and right into mixed practice after graduation. I dont know how the caseload numbers compare to other schools, but you can get a ton of good, hands on. experience. Mostly beef/rodeo stock, but pretty good numbers of small rums and camelids, some dairy, some swine. I now do a lot of dairy and small ruminant work, but have a few beef and swine clients- overall, I went into practice feelinf pretty dang confident on the routine FA stuff,
There are a bunch of wetlabs about everything from castrations to dehorning, cosmetic dehorns, casting, digit amputation, therio classes (hands on breeding, palp, collection, plus dystocia management/fetotomy labs), techniques classes (epidurals, locals, c sections, ex laps, DA's, plus basics like catheters, orogastric tubes). The school has its own herd of cows at the therio ranch so a lot gets practiced on those gals. In the advanced food animal elective my friend and I did a c-section with a resident supervising- about as hands on (in?) as it gets! There was a short summer elective that takes you around to a bunch of dairies, swine facilities and processing plants in the area. Therio elective has you palpating a couple afternoons a week. For fourth year, I spent about ten weeks off campus with mixed or large animal vets.
Only thing so far in practice that I wish I had actually gotten to practice in school is prolapses. learned theory but never got to actually do one!
