Badger vaccination by farmers.

[BrianV]

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Are they kidding, can't see many farmers getting involved in badger trapping & then vaccinating, even if you vaccinate the adults who may already have TB that does not stop the next brood from catching it, are they expecting farmers to carry on with these vaccinations for the next 25 years.
Surprised the government haven't announced a 25 year plan for covid elimination similar to TB with about as much chance of success!

 

[Wilksy]

Could you soak your .243 bullets overnight in vaccine

 

[rusty]

Farmers couldn't make a worse job than the local wildlife trust around here have done with loads of Government funding as well.

 

[topground]

The ones that were vaccinated with approved ammunition at the rate of one per three acres around here last autumn won’t get Tb

 

[Forkdriver]

Handling a badger is not for the faint hearted. I'm out.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

I saw a young one out in a grass field today hunting for food.
Never seen that before, seemed healthy and not bothered by me on a quad. I could have vaccinated it easily.

Won't need it now though!!

 

[michael N123]

Absolutely sick of hearing badgers and TB make the news and headlines... just put the fecking things on the general licence classed as vermin same as foxes and that’ll be the end of it

 

[steveR]

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Are they kidding, can't see many farmers getting involved in badger trapping & then vaccinating, even if you vaccinate the adults who may already have TB that does not stop the next brood from catching it, are they expecting farmers to carry on with these vaccinations for the next 25 years.
Surprised the government haven't announced a 25 year plan for covid elimination similar to TB with about as much chance of success!

FFS, what moron came up with that idea.... ?

 

[steveR]

Handling a badger is not for the faint hearted. I'm out.

The frangible vaccine after trapping works well I am reliably informed

 

[matthew]

FFS, what moron came up with that idea.... ?

The Bow Group, aka Goldsmith bros in 2012, followed by the Conservative Animal Welfare Foundation in 2019.
Number 22 in a wish list of 34 which they are steadily working through. Despite all the evidence that vaccination does not work, either for badgers or for any cattle in the area.

 

[Forkdriver]

The frangible vaccine after trapping works well I am reliably informed

Or indeed the copper coated.

 

[YorksLass]

So what happens if farmers refuse to waste their time doing a 2/4 day course on how to stick a needle in a badgers backside AND were to refuse permission for 'lay' (sabs) vaccinators to come on your land and inject badgers there? There is no evidence the jab does anything to stop cattle getting TB from positive badgers and from some posts on here suggestions it can actually cause them to shed BCG into the environment.....

I wouldnt let a WLT volunteer anywhere near my place - you never know what they're up to or what the ulterior motive i s.

 

[Courier]

Maybe the badgers can be persuaded to wear facemasks, sanitize their paws and practise social distancing.

 

[unlacedgecko]

Handling a badger is not for the faint hearted. I'm out.

It's good sport! I've live handled fox and badger in Europe. When you tail a badger just be aware they can turn on themselves and catch your wrist if you're slow.

 

[Cowmansam]

Fat ones don’t it’s the midsized ones you have to watch

 

[Jackov Altraids]

The NFU at a minimum. should be 'recommending' farmers do not cooperate with this trial until the government agree that culling will not be stopped until an effective vaccine is available.
[Obviously requires something like an over 80% success rate]

 

[michael N123]

It's good sport! I've live handled fox and badger in Europe. When you tail a badger just be aware they can turn on themselves and catch your wrist if you're slow.

Yeah ‘in Europe’

 

[unlacedgecko]

Yeah ‘in Europe’

Yes, in Europe.

I would never do anything illegal.

I have Hungarian friends. When I had more time (and money!) I had an annual pilgrimage to hunt with them. Mostly I flew, but once my mate and I drove over with our dogs. Gloucester to Budapest in an T Reg Astra van. Only took 23hrs...

Off topic but here's a couple of photos from a boar drive.

Beautiful place. It wouldn't take a lot to convince me to move there.

 

[Dry Rot]

My very pretty 20yo Swedish kennel maid announced that at the end of the summer here (three months!) she wanted to go home. I asked what was wrong. Nothing, she replied, just wanted to get home to Sweden in time for opening of the badger hunting season. All perfectly legitimate and under permit.

 

[Suffolk Serf]

I can’t quite understand the person from Defra on farming today this morning..... “the badger cull has been a success, so we’ll now stop it”.