Badgers Again.

[bumpy22]

You should see how efficient they are on poultry
I would say a lot more efficient than a fox
The difference being they kill one and sit and eat it. where as the fox will keep killing until disturbed or nothing left. Then half bury them for return visit

 

[Mike1979]

You should see how efficient they are on poultry
I would say a lot more efficient than a fox
The difference being they kill one and sit and eat it. where as the fox will keep killing until disturbed or nothing left. Then half bury them for return visit

Spot on ...they are efficient killers ..seen some significant losses due to badgers ...both chickens and pheasants ...

 

[Bavarianbrit]

They can b**ger up a field of crops almost as well as wild boar too.

 

[Bo Diddley]

You should see how efficient they are on poultry
I would say a lot more efficient than a fox
The difference being they kill one and sit and eat it. where as the fox will keep killing until disturbed or nothing left. Then half bury them for return visit

I watched one working the perimeter fence on a poultry site when it stumbled upon a turkey that was jugging next to the netting. It literally ate it alive, stood with its front feet on it, and ripped it to pieces. Quite prehistoric while watching it through the thermal.

 

[muddy42]

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[muddy42]

They mess up my lawn - robot mowers set to work overnight are a good (and legal) deterrent.

 

[Smellydog]

They mess up my lawn - robot mowers set to work overnight are a good (and legal) deterrent.

Do tell the vegans they will want them in trouble spot fields!

 

[Bavarianbrit]

We shoot them over here legally in the season.

 

[Apthorpe]

We shoot them over here legally in the season.

And here if you want a badger hair shaving brush, while it is illegal to source it from humanely culled British badgers, it is instead considered better for animal welfare to have the hair collected from Chinese badgers which have been clubbed to death by villagers ....in the best case.

 

[Smellydog]

And here if you want a badger hair shaving brush, while it is illegal to source it from humanely culled British badgers, it is instead considered better for animal welfare to have the hair collected from Chinese badgers which have been clubbed to death by villagers ....in the best case.

Yeah but the short sighted here don't get upset

 

[bumpy22]

I watched one working the perimeter fence on a poultry site when it stumbled upon a turkey that was jugging next to the netting. It literally ate it alive, stood with its front feet on it, and ripped it to pieces. Quite prehistoric while watching it through the thermal.

Exactly they will literally smother them with their weight before pulling them to shreads.


Sounds similar to the way I eat to be fair

 

[Goingback]

You should see how efficient they are on poultry
I would say a lot more efficient than a fox
The difference being they kill one and sit and eat it. where as the fox will keep killing until disturbed or nothing left. Then half bury them for return visit

They will and do multiple kills similar to foxes. Often with more mess and carnage.

 

[bumpy22]

They will and do multiple kills similar to foxes. Often with more mess and carnage.

I would agree with you but from what I have watched they will sit and eat one
Where as a fox will kill and keep killing without eating them.

 

[jall55]

Said it before - fox in a totally different league as a predator in my experience

 

[BenBhoy]

Just imagine the lost revenue for RSPB, etc., if they agreed that badgers need culling because they are apex predators of anything living on the ground.
Thousands would stop the monthly subs immediately.

Im not even so sure they would mate. I reckon to plenty of their supporters they can't do wrong. And they're supposed to be about birds!! Bet rspb could say shiŧ smells nice and their supporters would just start sniffing turds.

 

[finnbear270]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DzhbeI-5kC7o

 

[finbar]

Great video one of the fox’s had a rite mangy tail

 

[leej]

I don't think they kill like foxes, but perhaps they've got a bigger appetite .
I can remember footage of one swimming out to an island on an RSPB reserve on Springwatch a few years back and wiping out something like 16 avocet nests.
Avocets were a lot rarer then, and also the emblem of the RSPB. The badgers still didn't loose any public brownie points with Packham, the RSPB or the effing BBC!
After that, I very much doubt we'll see any changes in their protected status in the foreseeable future unfortunately.

ATLee

 

[Foxyboy43]

I think I posted this elsewhere but anyhoo - a good pal lost a few hens with one corpse left in the coop - he thought fox, I thought not. So the deceased was tethered to a post next to the coop and my trail camera set up.
That night this darling came a-calling…..

Next morning only two feet and a few inches of tendons were all that remained tethered to the post.

 

[2Ll’s]

Here is the "free to air" version from the GWCT for those who are interested.

New research reveals badgers are major predators of red-listed waders - Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust

www.gwct.org.uk

David.

I shoot land both sides of some GWCT areas, the last three years there has been an effort to Protect some Curlews nesting on the land. They tag the young birds and every year they have tracked the young back to a badger sett 1/2 mile away. I also have video of a family of 5 badgers chasing a hare family around. They have to live I get that as we all do but 90% of people have any idea whet they are actually like.