Participants are taught about biology, animal husbandry, hygiene and diseases, business organization and logistics, professional ethics and law, communication and customer contact as well as special work in the relevant field during their apprenticeship as an animal keeper and during their school education. You will learn everything you need to know about the anatomy and physiology of animals, animal husbandry, genetics and reproduction, nutrition, ethology, parentage and domestication, ecology, farm logistics, transportation, computing and IT, administration, safety culture, equipment and materials, killing and legal regulations, as well as communication and conveying facts. In addition, there is the keeping and, depending on the specialization, the care of pets, breeding and breed science, administration of pets, or hygiene of laboratory animals, animal experiments, breeding of laboratory animals or poisonous animals and zoo biology in the specialization of wild animal husbandry.

The continuing education, Vocational Education and Training for the Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training is divided into specialized classes and general education classes (ABU). Persons with at least three years of vocational training with Federal VET Diploma are exempt from the ABU. At the EBZ Olten, general education takes place in the second to fourth semester on one evening per week. In addition, there are specialist lessons, which teach vocational skills every second Thursday for the first two weeks and on 13 Tuesdays in the third and fourth semesters. After passing the final examination (qualification procedure), the Federal Diploma of Vocational Education and Training is awarded.