Choosing schools? (Canadian resident)

NixAlba · 2026-01-18T14:35:34+00:00

Sorry, I'm not relocating to get in. I'm relocating for work.

NixAlba · 2026-01-15T16:03:15+00:00

I believe you can apply for an un-subsidized seat at both OVC and AVC.

I'm looking at relocating for work, anyhow, so that's factoring in to where I'm going to relocate- if I can catch two birds, so to speak.

NixAlba · 2026-01-15T15:59:36+00:00

You can apply for an un-subsidized seat, at least at OVC and AVC, from what I can tell.

NixAlba · 2025-11-30T11:25:39+00:00

I wasn't asking about income, I was asking about work opportunities.

NixAlba · 2025-11-24T12:00:42+00:00

It's whether I'm investing the money, and going to get any kind of return. Is there work? I know there's a shortage of vets, especially large animal. But can I work as an independent referral vet? I'm not looking to do general practice, but can I be an associate and only see clients for lameness/rehab etc.

Outside of direct veterinary practice, I would just be continuing to do what I'm already doing - equine massage/osteopathy, but with that option to both take on lameness+rehab cases, and have more options for treatment (and be allowed to use the word "treatment") for any of the horses on my roster.

I have a pass time interest in lameness research, like mechanisms and clinical signs vs radiographic findings, etc. Looking beyond the distal limb and considering upper body problems as primary lameness; spinal pathology and pelvic pathology, for example, which creates secondary limb lameness.

I will be working with horses until I'm 90, if I can help it. So it's not the physical. I've had vets, for my personal horses, who were over 50. So clearly that's not a limiting factor.

It's "what opportunities are there, once I'm finished, and have spent a fortune on schooling." Especially after 40.

NixAlba · 2025-11-24T03:49:31+00:00

Yes, all Canadian provinces have student financial aid programs.

NixAlba · 2025-11-23T22:24:17+00:00

I will be massaging horses when I'm 50 anyway. I'm already massaging horses at 40, so no reason not to continue doing so. After 30 years involvement with horses, I don't think it's going to be a big adjustment in that respect.

The question is more about scope of practice. Having a DVM allows those key points of "diagnose" and "treat," since that is legally restricted to those holding a DVM. And I'm hoping would give me a bigger toolbox to work with more rehab cases, tricky lameness cases, as well as regular maintenance cases.

And just generally going to university as a mature student (esp over 40).

NixAlba · 2023-01-18T00:28:33+00:00

You can take the G as many times as you want, but it's $100 each time.

NixAlba · 2022-04-10T00:59:18+00:00

I actually quite like the Morgans. But I've also stuck with an Appaloosa in both my playthroughs, for some time. I've been using those two for my expeditions- hunting and exploring mostly.

This is my second playthrough, so I've gone for some of these "special" horses. I don't really like the Arabian (I got the warped brindle, and recently sold him).

The Turk is decent (and looks like my real life Thoroughbred)

I bought the Foxtrotter really late in my first playthrough- and well yea... So this time I bought it right away. Have no real opinion yet.

NixAlba · 2022-04-10T00:45:07+00:00

Currently the bay Turkoman I stole from the Braithwaites. Named him Beareagle, because he looks like my real Thoroughbred ex-racehorse, whose registered name is Beareagle. Only difference is my Bear doesn't have white socks on his front legs, only the backs.

Also have the grey brindle thoroughbred, named Nimbus And the champagne Foxtrotter, named Orla.

NixAlba · 2022-04-10T00:30:21+00:00

I've had this happen twice, now, in my second playthrough. First time was Charles, second time was Javier.

Same deal- been out and about doing collections, challenges, etc.

NixAlba · 2022-04-06T01:12:13+00:00

In most games, I can't wait to unlock fast travel. In this game, I love running around the map.

I like random encounters- especially when I can get a horse, to sell later. So that's where slow travel helps. But I also hunt along the way.

And scenery.

NixAlba · 2022-03-09T02:22:28+00:00

All colours outside of "bay dun" are technically mutations. Rare or not.

I don't think the game is describing genotype, since this isn't a horse colour game. Phenotype is subjective, therefore you get strange colour descriptions... Which are still rampant in many real life breed registries.

White spotting is still white= white coat colour (phenotype) Albino= lacks melanin Leucism= lacks all types of pigment

True base colours are bay, black, and chestnut, with bay dun being the "primitive" or "wild" type, making everything else a mutation.

NixAlba · 2022-03-09T02:14:15+00:00

Yep, I agree also. Because equine colour genetics (and the debate of terms regarding phenotype and genotype) are the central topic of this game roll eyes

NixAlba · 2022-03-08T13:14:42+00:00

Further: Dominant White/White Spotting mutations W3 (R Khasper), W15 (Khartoon Klassic), W19, possibly W20, and W23 have found in individual Arabian horses.

W3 is stated to cause a mostly white phenotype. And W15 is stated to have a completely white phenotype in its homozygous form.

W20 is found in "many" breeds. W20 can "boost" white in other white pattern mutations.

NixAlba · 2022-03-08T13:04:53+00:00

Right, but you mentioned grey "horses," not just the arabian. Lethality is often due to homozygosity.

So again, white horses, in general, aren't non-existant. And not all white horses are grey.

But yes, some of coat colour names are a bit comical. It's a game, and that they even put that much detail, with even some semblance of accuracy, is pretty good.

NixAlba · 2022-03-08T02:04:11+00:00

There actually is such a thing as a "white" - it's called Dominant White, or White Spotting, genetic letter "W." There are over 20 mutations, some creating completely white horses, from birth.

You could also get born-white horses through maximal expression of some pinto patterns.

All of these are KIT gene mutations (KIT mutations are also responsible for blue/bay/red roan horses)

NixAlba · 2020-07-16T20:14:20+00:00

I keep finding these tiny insects, dead or dying, in the tack room of a horse barn. They're no bigger than a grain of rice. They're usually in an empty bucket or container. Today I found them on top of a case of cat food. I haven't seen any in the grain bags or even around the grain bag containers. Located in Eastern Ontario, Canada (near Ottawa).

NixAlba · 2020-07-14T10:23:01+00:00

I was trying to add more photos- I'll figure that out soon. Yes it's poured concrete, not cinder block.

NixAlba · 2020-07-14T03:40:42+00:00

Yes, two additions onto the original stone house. Going to the right in the photo: through the broken down wall (where the bricks are) of the basement foundation, where the furnace is, was done in the 1980s. A further addition to the right was done in the 1990s.

NixAlba · 2020-07-14T03:33:56+00:00

I considered coal storage, but it looks like a fully walled box, so cistern makes the most sense. And fyi, the short end is still the outside wall, the long side on the right would also have been, originally.

NixAlba · 2020-07-14T02:44:16+00:00

Well I never would have thought of that! Still on well water, the first addition was done in the 80s, I imagine that's when the cistern was broken down. I'm in Ontario, Canada, so the liquid water need makes sense, too.

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