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pawbri said:
How many farm animal hours is substantial? Would u say 100 hours? 200 hours? I'm shadowing a bovine vet over spring break, but that will only equate to about 40-45 hours. I know this is a hard question, considering the more hours, the better. But if I want to work at a clinic when I graduate, I won't have time to shadow, you know?
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Emmy Senpai said:
You want to have as many hours as possible, but even if you have only 10 or 20 hours, make the most of the experience. Learn a few things about bovine medicine that you could potentially talk about in an interview. On my application, I put that I went to a horse farm and saw a castration. That was only about 2 hours total, and the procedure didn't even last that long. Still counts. I had no farm animal experience other than working with cows, pigs, and sheep in a lab setting and I was offered 3 interviews.
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To respond to this, and sort of expand on what Emmy commented . . .

I think you'll be surprised how much free time you'll have when you're not in school anymore. Even working full time, you'll have ~6 hours free every day, plus two entire days off. Now that I'm not in school and I don't have to do homework, study for exams, finish reading assignments and essays, etc, I have a surprising amount of time to fill however I want.

You can steal a couple hours before or after work to shadow at other clinics. You can use your Saturdays/day off to shadow, volunteer, make connections, etc. It will all add up, and even if they don't amount to hundreds and hundreds of hours, they can still be valuable and worthwhile experiences. I got all of my LA hours before and after my clinic shifts when I was working FT this summer. It's a little crazy, but it's completely doable.
 
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