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Lambing Sunday:

Sunday 14th March 2010, 11am - 4pm

Bicton Home Farm, Animal Centre and Garden open to the public for this popular annual event on Mothering Sunday.

Come along between 11am and 4pm, there is even more to see and do this year at this great family day out.

Take a tractor and trailer ride from Bicton College around the estate to the farm. You can watch BBC's Lambing Live and then come to Home Farm and watch lambs being born for real. Meet the Bicton Babies - calves, lambs and piglets and you may even be lucky enough to see a lamb being born.

Programme of Events

Bicton Home Farm

Meet Farmer Paul, as seen in the CITV series Farm Camp* - Paul and Bicton's shepherd Phil will be on-hand helping our own mother's to deliver their babies. We are expecting quadruplets, triplets, twins and singles this year. Be the first to meet the new arrivals and bottle feed them with milk.
You can also bottle feed our calves, say hello to our gorgeous pink piglets and watch afternoon milking.
Hot food and beverages will be available on the farm, including Bicton Burgers, hotdogs, tea, coffee and hot chocolate.

Bicton House
Fleece and Flowers
Sponsored by the British Wool Marketing Board
With a array of texture and colour, artist Gill Burbidge and her team of local craftspeople will be offering demonstrations with opportunities for you to have-a-go and purchase wool, fleece, flowers items.

Exhibitors include:

Green Pastures, selling hand and machine knitted items

The Candle Room, soya wax candles fragranced with pure essential oils

Summerlane Studios, painting, photography, jewellery, patchworking, and woodcraft products

Bramley High Tea

Treat yourselves to a high tea in our Georgian rooms, with delicately cut sandwiches, scones and a pot of tea.

Sponsored by The Cover Cupboard visit www.thecovercupboard.co.uk for more information.

Victorian Walled Garden
Find out more about our renovation project and how you can become a garden volunteer.

Tropical Orchid Exhibition
Visit our glasshouses and enjoy the scent and visual beauty of our exotic orchid exhibition designed and nurtured by our staff and students.

24 Hour Tractor Rebuild

Engineering students will completely restore a Massey Ferguson 35 tractor between 12 noon Saturday 13th and 12 noon Sunday 14th March in aid of Bicton Overseas Agricultural Trust (BOAT). Parts sponsored by Vapormatic visit www.vapormatic.com

Animal Enclosure
Come and say hello to our kune kune pigs, chickens, goats and more in their new home within the walled garden.

Fun at the Fair
If you are looking for more animal capers, visit the main hall where our animal care students will be hosting an array of games and quizzes in aid of their chosen charity.
Meet the Bicton Bugs, with hissing cockroaches from Madagascar, giant stick insects, land snails and giant millipedes.

Tiny Tots

Soft safe play for under 5s visit www.tinytotsplay.co.uk for more information.

Dog Show
sponsored by Now 4 Pets
With 8 classes you are bound to find a class to suit the four-legged members of your family. Only £1 entry and lots of prizes. See separate event listing or programme for more details.
(Dogs on a lead are welcome on the main campus but MAY NOT be taken to Bicton Home Farm as they may distress the sheep.)

Entry £10 per car

Toxoplasmosis Warning - Women who are, or might be, pregnant should not enter lambing areas.

*Farm Camp was sponsored by Morrisons Let's Grow and created by Handle and Spout Productions

Unaffiliated Show Jumping at Bicton College

& qualifiers for Cricklands jumping league!

Saturdays - 27th Feb, 10th April & 1st May 2010

Class 1 - 09.30am to 11.00am - clear round (any height)

Rosettes to all clear rounds, entries close at 10.30am.

11.00 am

Class 2: 2.ft (2 phase)
Class 3: 2.3ft (2 phase)
Class 4: 2.6ft (2 phase)
Class 5: 2.9ft (2 phase)
Class 6: 3ft (2 phase)

2 Phase = jump 1 - 8 then 9 - 14 is against the clock!

Show Jumping (pay on the day)

£3 Clear round
£6 for each class

Entries:

Entries in advance: £5 per class

Entries should include

The event title
Class number
Name of horse and rider
Contact details on the reverse of the cheque (payable to Bicton College.)

All entries close four days before the event (unless stated otherwise) and should be sent to:

Miss Gemma Cooke,

Bicton College Equestrian Centre,

East Budleigh,

Budleigh Salterton,

Devon EX9 7BY

For more information about any of these events please contact Gemma Cooke - Equine, Bicton College Equestrian Centre on 01395 562354

Sue Petty Clinics:

Come & benefit from expert tuition from a Britsh Dressage List 1 Judge!

£40 per Hour
Private & Semi Private lessons

Wednesdays:

20th Jan,17th Feb, 10th Mar, 14th Apr, 5th May & 2nd June 2010

Please contact Gemma for further details:

01395 562354 Or email gxcooke@bicton.ac.uk

Affiliated British Dressage events will be held at Bicton College on the following dates:

20th Feb, 13th Mar & 3rd April & 4th April 2010.

More details on the BD website. www.britishdressage.co.uk

Contact Miss Gemma Cooke on 01395 562354 or email gxcooke@bicton.ac.uk

Bicton College

East Budleigh

Budleigh Salterton

Devon, EX9 7BY

Bicton College are proud to sponsor Base Camp at Explore the Outdoors 2009, Plymouth Pavilions!

We have a full programme of activities planned throughout the weekend including: Creature Encounters; Trigger the Mechanical Horse; Survival Kitchen; Build Your Own Bird Box and more...

Explore the Outdoors Show are thrilled to announce that Ray Mears will be opening the show on Saturday 13th March. Ray Mears has become recognised throughout the world as being an authority on the subject of Bushcraft and Survival and he will be telling of his adventures in our Speaker Theatre and will be available for a book signing later in the day! Keep checking this site for more information.

Visit www.explore-the-outdoors.com for updates and directions to the show.

Bicton College Unaffiliated Dressage League 2010

Also qualifiers for Cricklands - if you get over 58% ask a staff member for a qualification card!

* please note: if we have large entries Class 1 will start at 8am*

Sunday 31st January

Class 1 - Bicton walk & trot test 1
Class 2 - Prelim 4 (2002)
Class 3 - Prelim 7 (2002)
Class 4 - Prelim 13 (2006)
Class 5 - Novice 25 (2005)

Sunday 14th March

Class 1 - Bicton walk & trot test 2
Class 2 - Prelim 7 (2002)
Class 3 - Prelim 12 (2005)
Class 4 - Prelim 14 (2006)
Class 5 - Novice 26 (2006)

Sunday 25th April

Class 1 - Bicton walk & trot test 4
Class 2 - Prelim13 (2006)
Class 3 - Prelim 14 (2006)
Class 4 - Novice 27 (2007)
Class 5 - Novice 30 (2006)

Sunday 30th May

Class 1 - Bicton walk & trot test 3
Class 2 - Prelim 10 (2002)
Class 3 - Prelim 18 (2002)
Class 4 - Novice 28 (2008)
Class 5 - Novice 34 (2009)

Sunday 20th June

Class 1 - Bicton walk & trot test 5
Class 2 - Prelim 16 (2002)
Class 3 - Prelim 17 (2002)
Class 4 - Novice 22 (2007)
Class 5 - Novice 35 (2009)

Unaffiliated Dressage £7.50 per class

How the league works:

You gain points for being placed 1st - 4th & you also gain points if you get over 60 %

1st = 4 points
2nd = 3 points
3rd = 2 points
4th = 1 point
60.00-61.99 = 1 point
62.00-63.99 = 2 points
64.00-65.99 = 3 points
66.00-67.99 = 4 points
68.00-69.99 = 5 points
70.00-71.99 = 6 points
72.00 & above = 7 points

The rider / horse combination with the most points at the end of the league will win a rug kindly donated by Suzanne at www.smgequestrian.co.uk

Shortly after each competition the results & league table will be updated on www.smgequestrian.co.uk

The Dressage league in kindly sponsered by: SMG Equestrian Ltd

For the Bicton College walk & trot tests please email me or send a stamped adressed envelope with 30p enclosed to the address below.

For more information about any of these events please contact Gemma Cooke, Bicton College Equestrian Centre on 01395 562354 or email gxcooke@bicton.ac.uk