We have been having nightly badger visits over the last week or so. They seem to of taken a liking to grubs under the turf.






I have been replacing the turf but my neighbour has given up. It took three nights to turn a presentable lawn into this.....








I'm assuming there must be more than one. I accept it as part of living in the country but it is driving my labrador nuts.







I don't think he minds the digging-its their habit of digging a small hole and then having a giant c p in it!

I have at least 2 badgers a night in my garden .. No damage Do it now ! Your a long time dead !!

Come down to the west country they will be shot.

Just installed an electric fence system around our vegetable garden. It cost about £100 all in and seems to have worked although the guy in Mole Valley Farmers suggested that a shotgun cartridge would be cheaper. There are others in the village who have installed fences like this just because some idiot has started feeding them.

Shoot the idiot

I notice these days many Badgers by the side of the road having been hit by cars.

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Badgers would not cause that sort of damage....more likely to be mole's. Foraging near Gaydon....
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taztastic wrote:

I notice these days many Badgers by the side of the road having been hit by cars.

Steve D wrote:

taztastic wrote:

I notice these days many Badgers by the side of the road having been hit by cars.

Yep, you seem to see more dead badgers by the side of the road than foxes these days.

dorsetfreelander wrote:

a shotgun cartridge would be cheaper.

Are you sure they bare Badgers - level of damage could indicate wild Boar  MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

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Was thinking boar.... Shoot them, they're a pest like otters and there is far to many of them about and they are destroying Eco systems.....

Too many do gooders that don't understand the consequence of there actions....

I await abuse.......

Unfortunately until the 'cute' little animals that do gooders adore so much, start to eat the vegetables the do gooders live off, then nothing much will be done.

It's all well and good re introducing species so that the masses can view them from a distance on a weekend and feel the warm glow of satisfaction that they contributed to its return, in reality it's not evolution, I won't disagree that we are skewing evolution with our progress and destruction, on the other hand some species are actually thriving throug it.

They are definitely badgers-next door has caught them in the act. They come right up to the back door at ours so I just have to be a little careful with the dog. I tend not to let him out in the garden after dark!

Get rid of the leather jackets or chafer bugs - nematodes do the trick. No food no badger.

You will probably find that if you follow this course of action the badgers will start crapping in your garden out of spite and your lovely Lab will relish rolling in it  MY 09 GS manual in Lago Grey, Wood Co arm rest and side bumper strips - now sold.

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