Craigsaun
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Are you commenting to aggravate
Badgers Again.
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I think he's just showing the general limp wristed may & packam huggers views are to the fore.
What why we have five months of hunting period for them.
Shoot badgers to protect rare birds, say conservationists
Animal to blame for almost 42pc of curlew and lapwing nest raidswww.telegraph.co.uk
Basically, research shows that badgers damage success of ground nesting birds so we should be able to cull them.
Outwith the UK unfortunately.
nf-fuse
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Not in the least. The reason badgers are treated like they are is because they're cute and cuddly bears in the public (townie) perception. Plus the previous badger digging etc.Are you commenting to aggravate
You can't honestly say if they were ugly looking the situation would be the same.
The thread is about why badgers are protected like they are the answer is because they have good PR basically.
As I said before you would want the law to reflect facts and logic which is clearly doesn't.
As I alluded to earlier in the thread Facebook is full of groups with people anthropomorphising 'cuddly' animals. I often seen posts about rescuing injured wood/feral pigeons on my local Facebook groups. And asking where to send injured munties etc.
These kind of people would rail at the notion of deer stalking (Bambi). No doubt the same people seen in the queue at maccies drive through.
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Craigsaun
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Sorry mate , as a farmer I know what TB does to some farms and it’s been proven that badgers are TB carriers but nothing seams to done about this. My question to them is , we have TB , we also have a lot of badgers, so why can’t they trap a badger, test it for TB , IF it’s clear then leave the set alone , if not wipe it out . We are just going round in circles and it’s bloody annoying
nf-fuse
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No worries mate. I wasn't meaning to need flippant but we do live in a very superficial society.Sorry mate , as a farmer I know what TB does to some farms and it’s been proven that badgers are TB carriers but nothing seams to done about this. My question to them is , we have TB , we also have a lot of badgers, so why can’t they trap a badger, test it for TB , IF it’s clear then leave the set alone , if not wipe it out . We are just going round in circles and it’s bloody annoying
Horrible for farmers not to be able to be deal with these problems.
Guess I'm just past having hope that government policy might get better for the rural community some day.
When I joined and worked for the NFU in 1965, it was well known that badgers spread Bovine TB. In those days, the problem was dealt with in a realistic and sensible level. As a result, TB was pretty well under control. When the ban came in, it was only about a year before the levels rose out of control. As the old song goes, "When will they ever learn?"
I agree,.before the legislation I worked on an estate with a couple of setts. I caught a badger in a wire and it was in an awful state with.sores and about half the weight it should have been. As the sett was in a wood with a dairy farm adjacent and pretty sure it was TB I gassed the sett. I never told anybody and the sett was never used again. A few months later they received.protection.
Brittany boy
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Your right @finbar, it was the publicity they received due to being used as a side bets at dog fighting meets in the 80,s and videos of them being dug and baited by the idiots. This led to them being overprotected for far too long now and their numbers are going through the roof here. We should take our lead from the Scandinavians who still hunt them legally. An open season on them same as foxes or limited to dairy farmland . That way they could populate other areas where there was no conflict with the farming practices.
The cull was never going to work effectively as it required 2 man shooting teams and too short a cull period to make a significant dent in the population.
Current thinking is to trap and vaccinated but if badgers were so easy to trap they would have been vaccinated with lead during the cull
The cost of trapping and vaccination/microchipping would be exorbitant.
Also lots of badger ground excluded from the cull.
Best policy would be to put them on a general licence and cull in accordance.
If need be badgers could be bagged and dropped at specified collection point for disposal.
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Current thinking is to trap and vaccinated but if badgers were so easy to trap they would have been vaccinated with lead during the cull
The cost of trapping and vaccination/microchipping would be exorbitant.
Also lots of badger ground excluded from the cull.
Best policy would be to put them on a general licence and cull in accordance.
If need be badgers could be bagged and dropped at specified collection point for disposal.
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"Also lots of badger ground excluded from the cull."
Biggest reason for patchy results, ... free shooting was the better option, trapping not so much, two man teams were pretty good options ... singletons were also allowed in some cases.
Tag & bag was always in operation ... jokes also at initial group meets (Please ensure any frozen ones are properly de frosted before tag & bag)
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Biggest reason for patchy results, ... free shooting was the better option, trapping not so much, two man teams were pretty good options ... singletons were also allowed in some cases.
Tag & bag was always in operation ... jokes also at initial group meets (Please ensure any frozen ones are properly de frosted before tag & bag)
.And still are where supplementary licenses are in place. Not for much longer, sadly.
Bavarianbrit
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I came back from Jagdhorn practise last night at 10pm on a country road and suddenly I instinctively swerved as I noted something was on the road then I felt a slight bump so drove on half a km to the next roundabout turned around and came back to check, there was a dead brock in the middle of the road, turned on my hazards then kick/pushed it to the side of the road to stop any accidents from happening and went on my way, seemed around 15kg of dead weight.
Helicopter hunt…
Last week I watched a badger activity hunting. First attempt was a rat in a hedgerow which scarpered up to the hedge. It then turned its attention to the rabbits in the field. It was actively hunting and chased one 20+ yds before it lost it. It was really running quite quickly. Quite a turn of speed.
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Smellydog
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I've seen them run across fields as fast as a greyhound I kid ye not.
Nickb
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So have I , they can certainly shift
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