Re: Large Animal Vet? Cold feet? Welly thread.

Anonymous — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 22:02:19 GMT

Such wellies would almost tempt me back into mixed practice

My biggest grievance with my last pair (which I'd got as a student, to fulfil the uni's H&S policy of steel-toe caps, and been too cheap-skate to replace) was that the tread in the heels was quite deep and tended to get small stones (often with dirt behind) stuck in firmly enough that even a decent-bristled welly brush couldn't remove them - hardly ideal for quick and effective cleaning between farms. The left welly also had a hole in the upper toe from when I'd made a momentary miscalcluation while manually shifting silage, meaning that the only way to submerge it in a bucket of disinfectant and remain dry-socked was to curl my toes upwards; this was of course an awkward postion to then pick gravel out of the heel from...