How not to stuff up your farm animal practical. (Do it like I didn't do.) = )

Cows
Put on the halter properly. People can still get it upside down.
Check the teeth properly. Make sure you are not seeing more teeth than there should be to age it. (It's unnerving when the examiners say "Are you sure?").
Look at the WHOLE cow before condition scoring. What I thought was fat on the hip was the cow resting on its other side.
Get a light coloured cow so you can see where the previous examinee got blood (Thanks William!) (Oh wait you can't, they tell you which cow to go to).
Get a nice cow. (Oh wait you can't either. So there. = P)
Even better, get a MAD cow. Like I did. Same crazy murray grey/charolais (?). I ONLY occluded her jugular vein and she put BOTH feet on top of the head bail rails. They said," PULL IT OUT PULL IT OUT!" So I did. The examiner said my technique was correct, but I didn't even get to draw blood! I feel so incomplete without properly doing it. Didn't get my bloodlust fufilled...Speaking about blood! Oh nevermind...= P
Then out of pity for me probably, they asked me to do a quick release bowline on the rail. The rail? At first I heard "poll", weird place to do a knot. It's the lazy Aussie vowel again. I did it wrong, didn't quick release properly. Didn't for the life of me know why. They gave me two more chances...even did it on myself. Still didn't work! Then they showed me and said I didn't need to know how to do it till 4th year. So was it counted or not? Argh. They said I did well and told me not to look so shocked or worried.
Stand FAR away from the leg as possible when doing the dairyman's knot. Apparently I didn't stand far back enough.
My cow was WET, full of milk. Thanks cow.
Did I stuff up? Maybe.

Pigs
Pick a nice pig. O wait you can't. Again.
Keep trying. My noose kept slipping from the pig when I tried to mouth gag it. It was terrified of the gag for no rhyme or reason and would struggle like mad to get away from it and hence out of my beautiful noose. So Ross let me use the metal snare. Hook on so that the pig still has room to pull on it. AND PUSH THE PIG TO THE RAILS. The seniors were giving us wrong information initially I think.
No weighing for me. Thank God! 10% within is not really a lot to play with. I prayed for a big pig, I got even better!
Pick up weaners. Goodness they were heavy and Ross was slow to tell us to put them down.
Know the breeds! And crosses!
Make the pig walk in a circle around the perimeter of the pen with a pail on its head. DON"T bang your head in the centre table like William. Oops.
I was most happy with the pigs. I think.