Badgers only eat worms don’t they .

[earth-thrower 490]

On 17/11/2019 at 19:58, Rat ha tat tat said:

Vermin they are they will kill and eat anything don't get me wrong I don't believe in badger baiting  not at all cos that is so wrong but they need to be sorted out they are everywhere something needs to be done asap 

well, stats i read, 67,000 'billys' culled 'legally' ?? (makes you f....n laugh !, at the irony of it !) , 2013 to 2018, in the Gov 'badger control areas', alone.

[earth-thrower 490]

On 04/12/2019 at 14:56, foxdropper said:

Thinned out nicely in the West Country .

Brocks, over protected , status,...led too it, all.  Im personally not convinced either, how major their role actually is, in this  'bTB' scourge, affecting the countrys cattle. (could well, be wrong on that, though.  lol)

[Rat ha tat tat 35]

On 11/12/2019 at 22:01, earth-thrower said:

well, stats i read, 67,000 'billys' culled 'legally' ?? (makes you f....n laugh !, at the irony of it !) , 2013 to 2018, in the Gov 'badger control areas', alone.

67,000 don't make me laugh there's more about than ever I worked on a vineyard farm for 8 years and could not keep them dirty black and white pigs off the grapes they love them we try most things( bells --electric fence--human hair from barber etc ) nout worked until I was out flying the gos on one weekend and bumped into a very interesting old guy and started chatting about the hawk and just happened to mention the problem we have with piggys on the grapes and low and behold he laughed and said you need diesel ( thinking to myself ) I got petrol car and he told me any gamekeepers or farmers out there take note if you need them gone off your land soak a old rag in diesel and put it by the set and they move off and keep off there nose is so sensitive to smell I know it's against the law to approach a set but your not digging or hurting them in any way if they are killing my lambs I would take that risk sorry 

[earth-thrower 490]

On 11/01/2020 at 11:21, Rat ha tat tat said:

67,000 don't make me laugh there's more about than ever I worked on a vineyard farm for 8 years and could not keep them dirty black and white pigs off the grapes they love them we try most things( bells --electric fence--human hair from barber etc ) nout worked until I was out flying the gos on one weekend and bumped into a very interesting old guy and started chatting about the hawk and just happened to mention the problem we have with piggys on the grapes and low and behold he laughed and said you need diesel ( thinking to myself ) I got petrol car and he told me any gamekeepers or farmers out there take note if you need them gone off your land soak a old rag in diesel and put it by the set and they move off and keep off there nose is so sensitive to smell I know it's against the law to approach a set but your not digging or hurting them in any way if they are killing my lambs I would take that risk sorry 

Interesting,.. (cheers for the reply),..well, i suppose any non lethal method, that works, in any local situation, could (or should , lol) be applied. Funny enough, just discovered a  road casualty, badger, recently. (Scotland) Surprising part was, that its the first in nearly 40 year, in that 'neck of the woods'. Explored, &  travelled up & down this way regular, since i was a boy,...& neither me or anyone local, EVER found any signs of badger previous, in the area. Never thought i would see the day,... quite unexpected !

Edited January 12, 2020 by earth-thrower

[robertb123 372]

The Swedes have the right idea about how to go about it

 

[nick703 446]

On 11/01/2020 at 11:21, Rat ha tat tat said:

67,000 don't make me laugh there's more about than ever I worked on a vineyard farm for 8 years and could not keep them dirty black and white pigs off the grapes they love them we try most things( bells --electric fence--human hair from barber etc ) nout worked until I was out flying the gos on one weekend and bumped into a very interesting old guy and started chatting about the hawk and just happened to mention the problem we have with piggys on the grapes and low and behold he laughed and said you need diesel ( thinking to myself ) I got petrol car and he told me any gamekeepers or farmers out there take note if you need them gone off your land soak a old rag in diesel and put it by the set and they move off and keep off there nose is so sensitive to smell I know it's against the law to approach a set but your not digging or hurting them in any way if they are killing my lambs I would take that risk sorry 

Pine cones are what the old timers used to use 

[foxdropper 17,092]

Soaked in diesel 

[Pirate 9000 675]

I've seen loads of farmers try diesel on straw rags bits of carpet to the extent you can smell it from 100 meters never seen it shift them out of established sett.

[foxdropper 17,092]

Renardine was the stuff but now banned 

[MAUSERMAN 23]

nasty b*****ds when there is more than one, twice ive had them come for me

[Baldcoot 2,352]

The cull worked where i shoot in Staffordshire ,used to see 3 or 4 a night .Told to stay away for 6 weeks during cull ,when i returned ,more bunnies than ever ,but the brocks and Munties and Roe all gone .After 3 weeks of "fox patrol" seeing nowt but bunnies and a twat mountain biking at midnight ??? LOCKDOWN 

But i can assure u ive never seen so many wabbits in 4 years on that ground ,so are badgers also wabbit eaters ,wouldnt put it past the nasty sods 

[FOXHUNTER 5,020]

They will definitely dig out nests of young rabbits. One night whilst lamping I witnessed brock run past me with a full grown rabbit in its mouth  , obviously dont know if it had found it or caught it

[foxdropper 17,092]

Many years back when I and a mate used to shoot rabbits regularly ,we were out one evening .Ken had just shot a rabbit a bit far back and it was squealing .I ran to it as it reached the hedge same time as a badger ran out and grabbed it .No kidding you I had a brief tug of war with the rabbit before it realised it’s mistake and ran off .They are opportunists and will try overpower anything that dosnt move out their way .