Animal Experience
This experience provides you with an opportunity to meet and greet your chosen animals.
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Who is this course for?
This experience aims to provide you with an opportunity to meet and greet your chosen animals. You will get to feed your chosen animals, learn about their health and husbandry care, provide enrichment for them and handle them (where applicable).
The choices are:
- Zoo animals – wallabies, meerkats and porcupines
- Reptiles – lizards, snakes, tortoises and tarantulas
- Small mammals – rabbits, guinea-pigs, chinchillas and rodents
- Farm animals – goats, pigs, alpacas and donkeys
Please ignore the date shown on the booking page as the experience is run at different times throughout the year. If you would like to put a note on your booking form with a desired date and then contact jonathan.taylor@derby-college.ac.uk, we will do our best to accommodate you.
Entry Requirements
You need basic literacy and numeracy skills plus some basic knowledge of animal care. You should be aged eight years or over.
What will you learn?
The course will cover:
- Meet and greet
- Feeding the animals
- Handling (where applicable)
- An informative talk
- Enrichment building
How will you learn?
The course involves a practical experience on the Animal Unit at Broomfield Hall.
What will you need to bring with you?
You will be required to supply your own boots or wellingtons – preferably steel toe-capped. Alternatively you can borrow some from the Animal Unit.
How will you be assessed?
There is no assessment.
Where next?
Derby College Group offers a range of one-day, weekend and evening courses relating to animal care, as well as a wide variety of other land-based topics – please see the Derby College Group Part-time Prospectus for a full list and details.
Who do you contact for more information?
For more information, contact Derby College Group on 0800 0280289 or animal.unit@derby-college.ac.uk
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Course Information Last Updated On: June 25, 2025 1:08 pm
