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We have a shed with one open side, the feed barriers. How far up does the netting or whatever need to be to keep the APHA vets happy that it is badger proof?
We have a shed with one open side, the feed barriers. How far up does the netting or whatever need to be to keep the APHA vets happy that it is badger proof?
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.I know the badgers around me are climbing our yard gates and even our new sheep wire fences in the fields with two row of barbed wire on top.
So I would be interested to know the same answer.
Probably is if someone else pays for it and it's only for a few rare breed animals.....According to our local wildlife trust, badgerproofing farm buildings is a straightforward job.
This. We have an MOD facility on one boundary and APHA won't accept the 3m high chain link with 4 strands of barbed wire. So we have 3 strands of electric. All the rest is solid with an exception for gates. Well worth doing.Shed boundaried with concrete or steel to a height of at least 1.5 metres with maximum gaps of 75 mm is apha rule for iso and afu units
Interesting.5 strand high tensile electric with 10,000v fencer job done, spray fence line 2-3 times a year to keep grass/weeds off it, badgers don’t like electric.
Those idiots!!We have had boarding ripped from sheds and 50mm heavy pig mesh pulled away from sheds. According to our local wildlife trust, badgerproofing farm buildings is a straightforward job.
Trail cameras are good. Also so show time and direction of travel. They’re creatures of habit, or so I’m told.I had put trail cameras up to monitor badger activity and its certainly true, they can scale a stock fence without any problem. Literally just climb up it. Amazing how determined they are.
Utilising other methods now.
They chomp through bees nests to get to honey, regardless of stings.Interesting.
I was told leccy will not work with Badgers, which I found a little hard to believe if enough power is used to "train" the bloody things...
We spent a couple of thousand. Less than a year payback. If we had done it before our breakdown it would have saved probably 5k about 10k's worth of stress.Those idiots!!
I saw a farmstead in N Herefordshire last year and was gobsmacked at what he had done to try and keep the bloody things out...Must cost thousands.
4 strands of electric fencing. Lowest 10cm and highest 30cm.We have a shed with one open side, the feed barriers. How far up does the netting or whatever need to be to keep the APHA vets happy that it is badger proof?