Badger proofing a shed

[Scholsey]

My understanding is that netting is no use as they just climb it or tear it open. It needs to be smooth concrete or sheet steel to at least 5 feet with no gaps over 100mm.

Hardly practical in many cases!

I recently read of a farm in Oxfordshire that had erected a badger proof fence around the whole farm to avoid re-infection. Probably legal but bloody expensive and fundamentally damaging to local ecology imho.

I would say badgers being kept out would be far better for the ecology within the block of ground, hedgehogs, bee’s, hares, ground nesting birds all benefit?

 

[Dry Rot]

Electricity is surely the way to go. I'd have thought maybe have it on a time switch or light switch if I hadn't seen badgers active during the day as they become bolder. My electric fences stopped badgers accessing a small pond here. They had worn a track to the pond before I even knew there were badgers in the area but stopped pdq when the fence was switched back on.

The remedy, of course, is to reduce the protected status to that of the fox. Absolute nonsense for protection. Europe has a much more sensible approach.

 

[mo!]

Electricity is surely the way to go. I'd have thought maybe have it on a time switch or light switch if I hadn't seen badgers active during the day as they become bolder. My electric fences stopped badgers accessing a small pond here. They had worn a track to the pond before I even knew there were badgers in the area but stopped pdq when the fence was switched back on.

The remedy, of course, is to reduce the protected status to that of the fox. Absolute nonsense for protection. Europe has a much more sensible approach.

Timers are a no go. Control needs to be absolute or you will lose the AFU/LFU status.