Junior Keeper Experience Day

Come along and experience a day in the life of a zookeeper with our fantastic animal management team.

Designed and developed with industry leads the Junior Keeper Experience Day at Bicton College is one of the most comprehensive educational zoo experiences in the southwest.

Aimed at avid animal lovers aged ten and up the Junior Keeper Experience Day provides practical experience of feeding, cleaning, training and husbandry maintenance for wide variety of animals and provides a detailed understanding of the day-to-day operations within a zoo.

Animals include alpacas, rhea, rabbits, Egyptian fruit bats, Burmese python, blue phased iguana, rare breed poultry and sheep.

Please note: This activity is suitable for ages 10 and up.

Tickets strictly limited and only available before the event.

Directions

Bicton College East Budleigh, Budleigh Salterton, Devon EX9 7BG – click here for map.

Please note: There is no entry to Bicton College via Back Lane past Mill Water School. Please use the main entrance from the B3178.

Travelling from Exeter head towards Sandygate roundabout and take the A3052 Sidmouth Road for approximately 8 miles until you reach the roundabout at Newton Poppleford. Take the B3178 Exmouth Road for 3 miles and Bicton College will be signposted on your right.

From Sidmouth via The Esplanade/B3176 Peak Hill Road, follow this road for approximately 4 miles along Pinn Lane. Bare right and go through Otterton and up Sleep Hill then turn right onto the B3178. In half a mile Bicton College will be signposted on your left.

From Exmouth via Salterton Road/B3178 follow this road until you reach the roundabout, take the second exit onto Knowle Hill/B3178 follow this road for approximately 4 miles, go past Bicton Park and Bicton College will be signposted on your left.