Badger cull

[MCL1129]

The whole badger cull thing was complete nonsense!

The idea was excellent, we had our cull and removed pretty well the expected 70% that must have been going on for three years ago now. The results were as expected, a significant drop in Btb, and everything as it should be. However, three years later the population is exploding once more and I suspect in another two years we will be back to where we started from. A great deal of effort by many people at considerable expense showed the system worked, but looking back we wasted our time and a lot of people's money.

Why on earth they don't go back to what it was many years ago when those who wanted them gone could deal with the matter and those who had no problem left them alone? The incidence of Btb was low and it wasn't until the ill-thought-out Badger Protection Act came into force that the disease started to get out of control. Again, it's been a case of those who know little about the countryside making decisions that generally seem to be utterly wrong.

However, perhaps a Labour government will see things differently !!!!!!!!!!!

Well said !! They are everywhere again

 

[Foxyboy43]

Well that didn’t take long…

Government vows to end badger cull in next five years

The government wants to implement a "badger vaccinator field force" to inoculate the creatures en masse - after around a quarter of a million were culled in the past 10 years. Government figures show slightly more than 3,000 badgers were vaccinated last year.

news.sky.com

 

[Dunwaters]

Well that didn’t take long…

Government vows to end badger cull in next five years

The government wants to implement a "badger vaccinator field force" to inoculate the creatures en masse - after around a quarter of a million were culled in the past 10 years. Government figures show slightly more than 3,000 badgers were vaccinated last year.

news.sky.com

You may lose your disease free status as a result.

 

[Bo Diddley]

Umm' Badger Vaccination Field Force... sounds like a joke in a Kill Bill film... I can't see it working very well personally... but what do I know

 

[Will the chippy]

If it were that easy to catch and vaccinate badgers they'd all be dead in year 1 of any cull. And there not.

 

[Rogerp]

Don’t matter that more cattle have been killed than badgers then?

 

[B&W FOX]

Nothing like a placid Newcastle supporter in a cage trap

 

[finnbear270]

Nothing like a placid Newcastle supporter in a cage trap

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