Foxes and Badgers

som farmer

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
somerset
One small positive...
one big positive, with the survival, and breeding, of game birds, on our little farm shoot, we shot 86 pheasants, 3 partridge, and a woodcock. in our 2 days.

not bad, considering we usually put 250/300 poults out, which never arrived this year !

and l am feeding 25/30 hen birds still present here.

l wonder how the vastly reduced mammal predators, have to do with that ?

l usually claim it's my fantastic keepering skills :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
 

tepapa

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
North Wales
If you were to look carefully at some of those "roadkill" badgers I bet they have a bullet hole in them, rolled out the back of a pickup when it's quiet
Why would you though? Who would drag a badger across a quiet field with probably a wood or hole it could be left in, inorder to leave it in full view on the side of a road.
Even then I don't know anyone that will kill a badger, except for legally in a cull zone, as the risk is too great.
 

unlacedgecko

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Fife
Why would you though? Who would drag a badger across a quiet field with probably a wood or hole it could be left in, inorder to leave it in full view on the side of a road.
Even then I don't know anyone that will kill a badger, except for legally in a cull zone, as the risk is too great.
6 weeks jail minimum. And it's an absolute offence, the onus is on the accused to prove innocence.
 
There are no badgers or foxes in Orkney. Orkney has the highest concentration of cattle per acre of any county in the UK. Orkney is home to some of the highest concentrations of ground nesting birds in the UK. I don't think this is a coincidence

Welcome to have a few if you like FOC!

I can give you the number of the local rescue centre, prob deliver as well!
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
There are no badgers or foxes in Orkney. Orkney has the highest concentration of cattle per acre of any county in the UK. Orkney is home to some of the highest concentrations of ground nesting birds in the UK. I don't think this is a coincidence
Do you have hedgehogs? Just curious as they were a recognised pest on the Uists. No badgers out there though I think? Just curious and with no agenda!:)
 

nickwiley

Member
Arable Farmer
our best 24/7 control of foxes and badgers, is the A 303, runs close to us.

in a cull zone, had a good clear out, 1st year, not many since.

pheasants, partridges and mallard, all reared broods last year. The hare population, has seriously increased, and we have seen h/hogs, 1st for decades.

Always reckon the best way to turn people against fox and badger relationship, is to encourage them to keep a few hens !
Hi, recently a hole has appeared under our fence leading into the garden (there is some overgrown land next door). We have also been waking up in the morning to find that small holes have been dug in the lawn, as it the grass has been scraped up to get at something underneath (bugs?). If it's badgers I don't mind but I am more worried about foxes as they can attack cats (we already lost a cat this way at a previous house). Apparently, human urine deters foxes so I am instructing DH to go and wee in the flower beds after dark! What do you think??
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
Hi, recently a hole has appeared under our fence leading into the garden (there is some overgrown land next door). We have also been waking up in the morning to find that small holes have been dug in the lawn, as it the grass has been scraped up to get at something underneath (bugs?). If it's badgers I don't mind but I am more worried about foxes as they can attack cats (we already lost a cat this way at a previous house). Apparently, human urine deters foxes so I am instructing DH to go and wee in the flower beds after dark! What do you think??
I think that you will find the Badgers are equally bad as a Visitor... :(

And if you have poultry, can be worse than foxes.
 

Netherfield

Member
Location
West Yorkshire
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We had one got in to the garden some years ago, no idea how it got in, but there was two barrows full of earth, where it dug it's way out under a fence.
 

Alias

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Lancashire
Hi, recently a hole has appeared under our fence leading into the garden (there is some overgrown land next door). We have also been waking up in the morning to find that small holes have been dug in the lawn, as it the grass has been scraped up to get at something underneath (bugs?). If it's badgers I don't mind but I am more worried about foxes as they can attack cats (we already lost a cat this way at a previous house). Apparently, human urine deters foxes so I am instructing DH to go and wee in the flower beds after dark! What do you think??
Badgers will dig little holes all over, more so in spring when the worms get more active. They will have no qualms about attacking a cat, son heard a commotion one night, went out with a torch, and there was a cat and a badger rolling down a bank only 10 yards from him. When they saw him, the badger just wandered off, the cat ran for its life
 

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