Badger Cull (will it won't it) Courts Rule Today

[Buckbones]

So the days the day the British courts rule on badger culling in the uk. It will be interesting to see the out come as hunter and not livestock owner. Will the court rule in favour of the mass of anti to everything group or will common sence pervaile.
26000 cattle slaughtered in the uk last year because "they might have tb or the farm next door has one with it".
Don't get me started
Fingers crossed for the farmers


Cheers Andrew

 

[MONGOOSE]

Fingers crossed for all concerned

 

[legaleagle69]

Don't get your hopes up matey common sense died & was buried years ago

Always going to be a thorny issue whatever happens, often problem is always that if you cull some "clean disease free" animals you will risk scabby festering ones moving in..

 

[old keeper]

I sincerely hope the cull gets the go ahead.
Then the real hassle will start, from what little I know about it I should think anyone involved will need to keep their eyes wide open>

 

[Lightyear]

I live and shoot in a very arable area with very little livestock....BUT....I have never seen as many Badgers as I have this year !!!

Whatever the reason they are doing very well...Would I shoot them if they were on a general license or conditioned on my FAC ? If that was what the farmer or land owner wanted...Then yes of course....

It will give Mr Badger hair Brian May something to do anyway....

Cheers + ATVB

Philip

 

[Bavarianbrit]

It May get through the courts.
Martin

 

[filzee]

I saw my first badger on friday shot the same land for ten years never seen one then saw 5 friday night. I suppose i would shoot them if the land owner wanted it but i wouldn't go out of my way to kill them.

 

[Tamus]

As I understand it, it's not the cull per se, that's under consideration here. The matter under the microscope is whether or not the Secratary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs acted correctly within her powers or not, in giving the cull the go ahead. Perhaps this just seems like a subtle difference, I know, but it is actually a very significant difference. Government does not like its officers misusing their statutory powers and goes to considerable lengths to avoid that happening. If it has happened here, there's probably much more than badgers to consider. I'd be very surprised indeed if the Secretary of State was so badly advised as to have acted improperly in this matter.

 

[murrayb]

They lost.

Now ...who gets to pay for that waste of money

 

[Paul at Fechan]

even better question who gets paid to do the job

 

[223]

i belive these badgers will shot under a licence, the million dollar question is, can the public get information on whom and where these licences are issued to ?????

if they can ,i can see the antis having a field day against the farmers/shooters and the farmers barns etc etc

 

[Orion]

i belive these badgers will shot under a licence, the million dollar question is, can the public get information on whom and where these licences are issued to ?????

if they can ,i can see the antis having a field day against the farmers/shooters and the farmers barns etc etc

They won't even have to get that info. The trial areas are well publicised and the antis will no doubt be out at all hours sabbing any traps and trying to disrupt any culling - just as they have done before.

I really feel sorry for those engaged in any type of country pursuit or work in those areas when it all kicks off. Do you think they will be able to differentiate between high seats and vehicles used by those involved in the badger cull from those used by deer stalkers?

 

[223]

[Q. Do you think they will be able to differentiate between high seats and vehicles used by those involved in the badger cull from those used by deer stalkers?[/QUOTE]

no them anti will just smash the lot up

 

[swarovski]

There will be even more at the kerbside if it does

 

[ksb]

I was reading on the bbc news app that licenses will be granted to highly trained marksmen and will allow the shooting of badgers in the specific areas at night. Anybody know of anyone who has been granted a license. It may be a difficult enought task unless using night vision, I am out lamping a couple of times a week and to be honest about 90% of the badgers I see in a lamp don't hang about to offer a shot. Trapping and human dispatch might be a better option, this is based on my experience of badgers in my area and may differ between areas.

 

[gerald]

hello all just wont to put my ten pence worth in as i am a knacker man i get to see a lot of the farmers and the effect of the tb so my solutionm is a easy one you dont have to cull badgers as a hole this is what the uneducated peopel have a problem with. you take a trile aera ask every farmer where the badger set are cos thay know (I have not met one that dose not know) you shoot one out of each set nomber the set tag the badger with corosponding tag send for test if clean leave alone if not gas the set. i think this is the only way it can be done because traping and culling cant work cos once a badger knows it can get a easy meal in a trap and be set free next morning it will be in every night. please fell free to pick the bones out of that statment. gerald

 

[Bomag]

We rarely saw badgers whilst out lamping, though I did call one in on a summers evening!
I dislike gassing, in all forms, but understand its a kill all below ground solution. With shooting and trapping there is a chance of missing an infected badger.
Will cleared sets be blocked up?

 

[hunter243]

There seems a lot of common sense and logic in that gerald (which is probably why the powers that be haven't thought of it!).

 

[AnthonyR]

I saw 15 badgers in ONE field the other night, we are an all arable farm so they don't cause us much hassle but I really feel for the people who loose their herds to TB.

In my experience badgers are creatures of habit, they all leave the set within 5 mins of each other to go out foraging and often use the same routes to their favourite feeding areas, the lamp does seem to upset them a bit but they are not cunning like a fox and I don't think they would be a problem to clear up with NV.

 

[see it shoot it]

there is a very very simple solution,which would have saved millions of pounds countless hours of debate and is a solution for the farmers and the antis
put a season on them,with a min caliber to use and if they must DSC level 1.
we never saw a probelm with the bird life and TB when you could kill them,numbers need to be sorted out theres far too many.