Future vets

My neice has just started at vet school. Out of a cohort of 214 there are only 20 boys!
Nowt wrong with female vets, they are good and empathetic etc but I wonder how the farmers will cope?...............sometimes it's good to have a bit of brawn, and with the best will in the world, females just do not have the same strength as males.
I was amazed at the imbalance. I asked Lucy if she knew why and the consensus of the christmas gathering was that boys with 3 grade A 'A levels' are looking for a job where they can wear a suit and earn lots of money!...or if they have a scientific bent they want to be a human surgeon not a veterinary surgeon!
Am I the last one to catch up on this change or are you suprised too?

I am surprised!!! I didnt realise the huge imbalance!
I wish I had stayed at school and done my vet training as I wanted!

How do I get to that vet school

but, joking aside, you'd think that would be a bit of an incentive to the lads wouldn't you!?

It does seam a bit strange.

Didn't realise it was such an inbalance.. I know lots of our girls apply for Vet
Med but it is hard to get in even with 4As because the competition is so great .

I wouldn't worry about the farm animal side of things for the girls. There is an all-female practice in County Clare featured in a TV series at the moment, and they do just fine. Most of them weigh half as much as I do and as one said recently, it's very satisfying getting a calf out that 3 men have been struggling to do for a couple of hours. Not brute force, but a combination of technique and equipment.

i agree with rob

It takes a long while to train may be the male is just too impatient and wants to be earning the sooner the better.