Animal Management & Agriculture

System Update: Application Portal Now Available
Our application portal is now back up and running. However, we are currently experiencing intermittent issues with email alerts. We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause and are working to resolve this as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.

Gain the knowledge, confidence, and hands-on experience needed to care for a wide range of fascinating animals, including bearded dragons, snakes, tortoises, meerkats, sugar gliders, rabbits, mice, parrots, and many more small animals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, and invertebrates.

Based at the Goodliffe Centre, our dedicated facility for Animal Management and Agriculture students, you鈥檒l learn from industry experienced lecturers and skilled instructors who are passionate about animal welfare. Through a combination of theory and practical work, you will develop essential skills in animal handling, health care, husbandry, behaviour, and nutrition. You鈥檒l also gain valuable insight into the animal management industry, helping you prepare for further study or employment in zoos, rescue centres, veterinary practices, or animal parks. These are the perfect courses for animal lovers with big career ambitions.

Your Future in Animal Management & Agriculture

The Animal Unit

As part of your course, you鈥檒l be based in the Goodliffe Centre, home to our ever-growing Animal Management and Agriculture unit.

Here, you鈥檒l work with an impressive variety of small animals, birds, and reptiles 鈥� including Thor, our giant tortoise, and our two friendly meerkats 鈥� while gaining hands-on experience with professional, industry-standard equipment to take care of their daily needs.

鈥淚 study at college for three days a week, which includes a mixture of theory base study covering biology and practical study within the unit handling and cleaning out the animals. The Animal Management unit has a wide range of animals; I didn鈥檛 expect to have such a variety of exotic animals to care for. When I started the Animal Management course, I was petrified of birds, but the lecturers have been really supportive in helping me overcome this fear.

I鈥檓 hoping to carry on my studies within Animal Management by continuing my studies at university to become a vet.鈥�

If you need career inspiration, the College鈥檚聽Career聽Coach聽platform is designed to help you discover careers related to the courses you鈥檙e interested in 鈥� enabling you to map out your educational journey!聽

拢22,806 Entry Level Salary

拢22,934 Average Salary

拢34,199 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Carries out maintenance on farm buildings, hedges, ditches and erects and repairs fences.
Catches, moves, and handles livestock, including in preparation for transport.
Treats minor ailments, delivers vaccinations and other medicines under the direction of the veterinary surgeon, and assists the veterinary surgeon as required.
Cleans barns, sheds, pens, yards, incubators and breeding units and sterilises milking and other equipment as necessary.
Weighs and measures foodstuffs, feeds animals and checks them for any signs of disease.
Cultivates growing crops by hoeing, spraying and thinning as necessary.
Operates farm machinery to prepare soil, fertilise and treat crops.

3 Annual Openings

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢15,336 Entry Level Salary

拢12,041 Average Salary

拢19,581 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Work alongside veterinary surgeons and nurses to provide vital nursing care to ensure the wellbeing of animal patients.
Patrols public areas to search for and capture stray or nuisance dogs, and transports captured animals to kennels.
Meets prospective owners and advises on animal selection and animal care.
Checks animals for illness, treats minor ailments or calls for vet if further treatment is required.
Houses, feeds, exercises, trains, grooms horses, dogs and other animals in preparation for entry to shows, races and other events.
Cleans animals鈥� quarters and renews bedding as necessary.
Feeds, washes, grooms, trims and exercises animals.

4 Annual Openings

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢18,738 Entry Level Salary

拢24,088 Average Salary

拢37,921 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Manages areas of the countryside and the wider environment, carries out practical conservation activities and assists in promoting awareness of the natural environment.
Monitors and maintains the level of wildfowl on public and private estates.
Patrols a designated area of the countryside to monitor damage, erosion, access to rights of way and the state of footpaths and other facilities, and carries out remedial maintenance work as necessary.
Establishes and maintains forest nurseries, forestry and woodland, and diagnoses and treats diseased trees.
Navigates and maintains shipping vessels, assists with the shooting, hauling and repairing of fishing nets, prepares, lays and empties baited pots, and guts, sorts and stows fish.
Nets river fish and feeds and maintains them in spawning pens, cultivates and harvests oysters, mussels and clams on natural and artificial beds, treats water and diseased fish, and empties and cleans outdoor tanks.

1 Annual Opening

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢20,070 Entry Level Salary

拢24,765 Average Salary

拢38,987 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Rolls, mows and waters grass, marks out pitches.
Monitors and maintains the quality and condition of turf.
Moves soil to alter surface contour of land using mechanical equipment and constructs appropriate landscaping features and maintains such features.
Cuts and lays turf using hand and machine tools and repairs damaged turf.
Levels ground and installs drainage system as required.

4 Annual Openings

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢19,314 Entry Level Salary

拢23,039 Average Salary

拢36,271 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Performs general garden maintenance.
Moves soil to alter surface contour of land using mechanical equipment and constructs paths, rockeries, ponds and other features.
Prepares or interprets garden design plans.
Cuts and lays turf using hand and machine tools and repairs damaged turf.
Protects plants from pests and diseases.
Prepares soil and plants and transplants, prunes, weeds and otherwise tends plant life.
Levels ground and installs drainage system as required.

1 Annual Opening

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢18,342 Entry Level Salary

拢22,373 Average Salary

拢35,223 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Supports trees by staking and wiring.
Prunes and thins trees and shrubs.
Propagates plants by taking cuttings and by grafting and budding, applies weed-killer, fungicide and insecticide to control pests and diseases.
Sows seeds and bulbs and transplants seedlings.
Mixes soil, composts, fertilisers and/or organic matter and spreads fertiliser and manure.
Prepares soil in field, bed or pot by hand or machine.

0 Annual Openings

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢18,270 Entry Level Salary

拢13,610 Average Salary

拢20,206 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Advises clients on preventative medicine to maintain appropriate animal health and welfare.
Maintains the biosecurity of the veterinary premises.
Cares for animals in hospital accommodation and keeps accurate records.
Collects and analyses blood, urine and other samples.
Handles animals during treatment.
Dispenses and administers medication and applies dressings to animals under direction from the veterinarian.
Prepares operating theatre, sterilises equipment and assists in theatre as required.
Assists the veterinary surgeon during surgical and medical treatments of animals.

3 Annual Openings

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢27,000 Entry Level Salary

拢41,585 Average Salary

拢69,630 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Maintains records, raises and forwards reports and certificates in compliance with current legislation.
Carries out expert witness work and undertakes teaching of veterinary students.
Performs ante-mortem inspection of animals destined for the food chain, and animal post-mortem examinations.
Performs tasks relating to food safety policy, regulation of veterinary drugs, quality control of veterinary products.
Euthanises old, sick, terminally ill and unwanted animals.
Investigates outbreaks of animal diseases and advises owners on feeding, breeding and general care.
Administers local or general anaesthetics and performs surgery.
Inoculates animals against communicable diseases.
Examines animals, diagnoses condition and prescribes and administers appropriate drugs, dressings, etc., and arranges or undertakes any necessary x-ray or other tests.

3 Annual Openings

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

拢21,402 Entry Level Salary

拢30,160 Average Salary

拢50,831 Potential Salary

Daily Tasks

Markets and arranges for the sale of crops, livestock and other farm or horticultural produce.
Plans intensity and sequence of farm or horticultural operations and orders seed, fertiliser, equipment and other supplies.
Decides or advises on the types of crops and/or produce to be grown or livestock raised.
Produces and maintains records of production, finance and breeding.
Determines financial, staffing and other short and long-term needs.

1 Annual Opening

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full- and part-time jobs.

天美视频