Job Title: Large Animal Veterinarian
Description: See healthy, sick, and injured horses, cows, pigs (and other large animals) and their owners for examinations. Educate owners about avoiding and preventing pet health problems and perform preventive or disease avoidance interventions such as immunization, deworming and laboratory testing. If there are health complaints, offer the owners tests or procedures to address the problems. Provide medical and surgical services.
Degree Required: DVM
- Doctor of Veterinary Medicine is usually a 4 year full-time program that begins after earning a BS or MS degree. The first 3 years generally includes classwork and the final year involves practical hands-on learning in a clinical setting. A veterinary career may also require a year or more of residency in a specific field upon graduation.
Skills Required: Computer skills, Creative writing skills, Customer service skills, Farm animal care, Good hand-eye coordination, Independent worker, Leadership abilities, Learns on the job, Mechanically inclined, Managing financial resources, Managing people, Negotiator, Oral communication skills, Record maintenance, Scientific thinker, Scientific writing skills, Thinks outside the box, Time management skills, Teaching skills, Works under pressure, Written communication skills
Market Sector: Farm/Ranch, Self-Employed
Relative Salary: $$$$
- We did not collect actual income range information in our survey. Instead we chose to express income range with a number of dollar signs, expressing relative salaries. A single $ is relatively low salary compared to the average, $$ - $$$ is average, and $$$$$ is much higher than average income.
Since each person surveyed may have a different viewpoint as to what constitutes an average salary, and since salary is often commensurate with years of experience, the number of dollar signs should not be regarded as an absolute, but only as an indicator.