THE BADGER CULL

doasyoulikey · Feb 13, 2017

We are being pressured to up for the badger culling in Devon.
We don't have any cattle anymore and therefore TB doesn't really affect us.

My mother is very unsure about signing up in case the list of farms gets leaked and we end up getting protesters on our doorstep (my mum is on the farm her own at night). We also have a non ag business running from the farm that could do without the publicity this might bring.

The cost is relatively little (a flat rate per acre plus a per head of cattle of which we have none).

Our neighbours seem split (some are actively trying to sell the concept to other farmers, others are against it including some with cattle themselves.

What do I do

Sid · Feb 13, 2017

Not post anything online about it to attract attention?

spin cycle · Feb 13, 2017

doasyoulikey said:
We are being pressured to up for the badger culling in Devon.
We don't have any cattle anymore and therefore TB doesn't really affect us.

My mother is very unsure about signing up in case the list of farms gets leaked and we end up getting protesters on our doorstep (my mum is on the farm her own at night). We also have a non ag business running from the farm that could do without the publicity this might bring.

The cost is relatively little (a flat rate per acre plus a per head of cattle of which we have none).

Our neighbours seem split (some are actively trying to sell the concept to other farmers, others are against it including some with cattle themselves.

What do I do

do what you want to do.....don't be bullied either way

gone up the hill · Feb 13, 2017

spin cycle said:
do what you want to do.....don't be bullied either way

Rubbish, they should sign up without delay!

All very well they haven't got cattle but what about their cattle farming neighbours?

Culling of badgers has been proven 110% to reduce TB in BOTH badgers and cattle.

tinsheet · Feb 13, 2017

They arable boys in west somerset all signed up and the majority don't have cattle! Their reason was who's going to buy the straw if the cattle go!

beefandsleep · Feb 13, 2017

And the corn. Anybody who doesn't sign up because they don't have cattle themselves is beneath contempt. This could be the only chance we have to get Tb under control. If the cull doesn't get off the ground because people withheld their land for purely selfish reasons and not because of a genuine opposition to the cull itself they should be shunned.

Frank-the-Wool · Feb 13, 2017

Just sign up and have a clear conscience that you are helping to solve a problem that affects all of us.

spin cycle · Feb 13, 2017

gone up the hill said:
Rubbish, they should sign up without delay!

All very well they haven't got cattle but what about their cattle farming neighbours?

Culling of badgers has been proven 110% to reduce TB in BOTH badgers and cattle.

culling does work i agree....but i don't agree with browbeating ppl....especially old ladies....sorry

kill · Feb 13, 2017

Sid said:
Not post anything online about it to attract attention?

NOTHING stays CONFIDENTIAL

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gone up the hill · Feb 13, 2017

spin cycle said:
culling does work i agree....but i don't agree with browbeating ppl....especially old ladies....sorry

No one is brow beating her!

Basically she is saying : I don't have cattle so TB doesn't affect me so I couldn't give a damn about my neighbours that have cattle!

The more farmers that sign up regardless of if they have cattle or not the better the effect of the cull on TB rates in badgers and cattle will be.

No idea if the OP has sheep or not but if she has then I wonder if she will change her views when they go down with TB ( Which plenty of sheep flocks in the SW are doing ) and she gets no compo for TB reactor sheep!

OP needs to look at the much BIGGER picture and not just herself!

kill · Feb 13, 2017

gone up the hill said:
Rubbish, they should sign up without delay!

All very well they haven't got cattle but what about their cattle farming neighbours?

Culling of badgers has been proven 110% to reduce TB in BOTH badgers and cattle.

With wild boar, deer, cat's, dog's, sheep and virtually everything else carrying TB I really can't believe TB problems come down to just one species but I maybe wrong. But I really think one species should be down graded to vermin rather than being protected.

spin cycle · Feb 13, 2017

gone up the hill said:
No one is brow beating her!

Basically she is saying : I don't have cattle so TB doesn't affect me so I couldn't give a damn about my neighbours that have cattle!

The more farmers that sign up regardless of if they have cattle or not the better the effect of the cull on TB rates in badgers and cattle will be.

No idea if the OP has sheep or not but if she has then I wonder if she will change her views when they go down with TB ( Which plenty of sheep flocks in the SW are doing ) and she gets no compo for TB reactor sheep!

OP needs to look at the much BIGGER picture and not just herself!

'we are being pressured'....'our neighbours are split'.....sounds like a horrible situation for all involved

Old Boar · Feb 13, 2017

No one should be brow beaten into signing up for anything. Take some time and think things through, and then decide. If she would be in fear if she signed, fair enough. It is a shame it has come to that.
I would say that any warm blooded animal can get TB. A badger wandering through a playground and peeing in the sand pit can give children TB. Pets are at risk, as they stick their paws where badgers have been, and then clean themselves. It is not about cattle, it is about having something shedding a very dangerous bug freely in the countryside and towns.
None of us want to cull a healthy badger, but if we had nipped this in the bud years ago, healthy badgers would be about and not the sick diseased ones, passing this on to anyone and anything.

kill · Feb 13, 2017

gone up the hill said:
No one is brow beating her!

Basically she is saying : I don't have cattle so TB doesn't affect me so I couldn't give a damn about my neighbours that have cattle!

The more farmers that sign up regardless of if they have cattle or not the better the effect of the cull on TB rates in badgers and cattle will be.

No idea if the OP has sheep or not but if she has then I wonder if she will change her views when they go down with TB ( Which plenty of sheep flocks in the SW are doing ) and she gets no compo for TB reactor sheep!

OP needs to look at the much BIGGER picture and not just herself!

Would you sign if you had a TB free farm for the last 47 year's and there must be around 6000+ acres of scrub type land ( country side stewardship and land planted with trees and poorly farmed by ex town dweller's with no idea) within 2 miles of your farm unsigned? Hypertheticly of course

milkloss · Feb 13, 2017

I disagree with the way this culling is being carried out but I would sign up with confidence.

gone up the hill · Feb 13, 2017

spin cycle said:
'we are being pressured'....'our neighbours are split'.....sounds like a horrible situation for all involved

Very unlikely imo and thinking about it I wonder if the OP isn't anti culling and thus using this thread to whip up support against a cull.................

For sure something doesn't add up!

gone up the hill · Feb 13, 2017

kill said:
Would you sign if you had a TB free farm for the last 47 year's and there must be around 6000+ acres of scrub type land within 2 miles of your farm unsigned? Hypertheticly of course

Yep because next week/ month you could go down with TB caused by badgers moving onto your farm.

spin cycle · Feb 13, 2017

gone up the hill said:
Very unlikely imo and thinking about it I wonder if the OP isn't anti culling and thus using this thread to whip up support against a cull.................

For sure something doesn't add up!

possible i suppose...unlike us to disagree.....i'd sign up i know

gone up the hill · Feb 13, 2017

kill said:
With wild boar, deer, cat's, dog's, sheep and virtually everything else carrying TB I really can't believe TB problems come down to just one species but I maybe wrong. But I really think one species should be down graded to vermin rather than being protected.

110% the reason why TB has spread to all the species that you mention is because badger numbers have got out of control since they became protected thanks to Labour!

When you see sick or dead badgers around your cattle, then you do a TB test a few weeks/months later and 1/4 ( or worse ) of the cattle that these ill badgers have been near go down with TB its VERY clear that badgers are too blame!

kill · Feb 13, 2017

gone up the hill said:
Yep because next week/ month you could go down with TB caused by badgers moving onto your farm.

Surely you would have yourself to blame after giving them accommodation where clean animals had been removed??????

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