Students
Portnellan is a small family organic farm within The Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park.
We realise that most students want dairy experience and since we stopped milking in July 2010, we cannot provide milking practice. However, we still welcome veterinary students, agricultural students and school children looking to gain experience before applying to veterinary school onto the farm to learn about organic principles and how to handle cows. We prefer our students to come for at least
two weeks and school children for one week. Accommodation and food are provided but no payments are made to students.
Students will have ample opportunity to join in all the activities on the farm, including calf rearing, foot paring, castrations, disbudding and calvings and participating in routine veterinary visits.
We are a teaching farm for the University of Glasgow Veterinary School and students attend the farm to do routine fertility work and to develop their ability to prepare Farm Health Plans.
If you are interested, please contact
David Scott-Park at
Portnellan Farm
Tel 01389 830487
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On the
day that cow 31 calved, students
from Glasgow
Vet School happened to be on
their fortnightly routine
visit. So the students
were able to observe the twins
being born,
and one student actually assisted
the
second twin into the world.
Anna
Leach from Cambridge learns about
lameness in
dairy
cows. Students learn quite
a lot about routine foot
care
and then there is
the odd case of lameness. This
is usually
"pus in the foot" or white line
disease caused
by walking on stony tracks, which damages
the
sensitive horn on the bottom of the foot |
