Welsh onion yes they are wild animals but the winbeen was very harsh they only get fed when times are hard... And types we do love watching them but would never o near them...
If you tempt wild animals into your garden they may lose their fear of humans which makes them vulnerable. They may be tempted on to roads where they will be run over. They may also raid hen houses and dustbins and bee hives.
And if you have hedgehogs in your garden it's curtains for them.
If they make a mess or cause damage someone will come on this board asking how they can get rid of the animal/animals.
Lol waterbutts the spell change is horrid no here with the iPad!! I agree welsh onion that wild animals are becoming tamer.. The badgers i my garden have been using it as their route for 40 years I'm the temporary one!!
I have a badger problem, only started this year. These little loves have destroyed my lawn by digging it over every night, it now looks like the battleground on the somme. I tried a strong wire fence all way round but they have actually chewed large holes in the wire and still get in.
After reading above I think I will be shopping for scotch bonnet chilies tomorrow.
I have a badger problem like many of you, but only recently. I think this is partly because they are now over populated a bit like seagulls - both whom are protected by law, unfortunately. They were attracted to two things 1) a bees nest under my railway sleepers in the ground, and 2) worms under my lawn. They have dug a foot deep hole for the bees and plenty of scratching and nose sucking on my now patched lawn, which we have watered well this year. One of my neighbours, a lovely couple, both passed away this year and there house is empty and their lawn untouched. I tried putting urine (from a water bottle) around the boundary hedges and entrances but that did not work (it kept the mother-in-law away). Perhaps I will make them a large bowl of chilli soup followed by peanut butter sandwiches with a worm crust topping by a large notice saying 'keep off the grass'! If all fails follow them home and the next evening when they are at yours go and dig up their lawn!
There are several badger setts within a couple of miles of my house and soon after I came here (years ago now) the badgers made a lovely job of digging up my lawn! The garden boundaries consisted simply of post & rail fencing and hawthorn hedging so I arranged for a local fencing contractor to fix some stock netting around all the boundaries. It was simple to attach it to the post & rail, and in order to "fence" the hawthorn hedge, short posts (approx. 4ft left above ground) were put in at the foot of the hedge and the netting fixed to those posts. Over the years the hawthorn has grown through and the posts & netting are no longer visible.
Stock netting - the sort which is used to keep livestock enclosed ( i.e not chicken wire) - is totally badger-proof. It's far too strong for them to get through, and perhaps the wire fence Ferline referred to is not the same sort.
Stock netting looks like squares & rectangles, not hexagons e.g. "chicken wire" - it is attached so that the rectangles are at the bottom of the fence line and the squares at the top. This is because the area of each rectangle is smaller than that of the squares and so prevents young lambs and suchlike from getting their heads through the gaps at the bottom.
Watch out that the badgers don't dig their way in - Springwatch this year showed how a badger had attempted to dig under the fence newly installed around The Scrape - thankfully the fence goes well below ground level and extends back towards the badger for quite a way, to prevent tunnelling under. They also have electric fencing along the top - as we saw on Springwatch, badgers are quite good climbers, getting a good six feet up a tree trunk!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's kept them out for the past 20 or so years - so I reckon it works! They trot along the field on the other side of the fence these days, so I suppose the first generation of badgers who'd been used to getting in actually gave up, and the "pathway" now is a bit different, so I guess the later generations follow this altered route. There are some quite clear badger paths through the hedges and alongside the field edges round here - and, sadly, there's a dead badger on the kerb about a quarter of a mile away. A few weeks ago I dragged a dead one from the middle of the main road at the top of the lane. There are literally dozens of badgers within a couple of miles or so these days, and I see carcases on the roadside all too often. No hedgehog "bodies", no foxes, some rabbits, some grey squirrels - but more dead badgers than the rest put together.
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Surely one could say that about wild birds too, but think of the pleasure people get from watching them.
Welsh onion yes they are wild animals but the winbeen was very harsh they only get fed when times are hard... And types we do love watching them but would never o near them...
Was the winbeen harsh, Stacey? Nasty that.
If you tempt wild animals into your garden they may lose their fear of humans which makes them vulnerable. They may be tempted on to roads where they will be run over. They may also raid hen houses and dustbins and bee hives.
And if you have hedgehogs in your garden it's curtains for them.
If they make a mess or cause damage someone will come on this board asking how they can get rid of the animal/animals.
Lol waterbutts the spell change is horrid no here with the iPad!! I agree welsh onion that wild animals are becoming tamer.. The badgers i my garden have been using it as their route for 40 years I'm the temporary one!!
I have a badger problem, only started this year. These little loves have destroyed my lawn by digging it over every night, it now looks like the battleground on the somme. I tried a strong wire fence all way round but they have actually chewed large holes in the wire and still get in.
After reading above I think I will be shopping for scotch bonnet chilies tomorrow.
Watch this space....!!!
I have a badger problem like many of you, but only recently. I think this is partly because they are now over populated a bit like seagulls - both whom are protected by law, unfortunately. They were attracted to two things 1) a bees nest under my railway sleepers in the ground, and 2) worms under my lawn. They have dug a foot deep hole for the bees and plenty of scratching and nose sucking on my now patched lawn, which we have watered well this year. One of my neighbours, a lovely couple, both passed away this year and there house is empty and their lawn untouched. I tried putting urine (from a water bottle) around the boundary hedges and entrances but that did not work (it kept the mother-in-law away). Perhaps I will make them a large bowl of chilli soup followed by peanut butter sandwiches with a worm crust topping by a large notice saying 'keep off the grass'! If all fails follow them home and the next evening when they are at yours go and dig up their lawn!
There are several badger setts within a couple of miles of my house and soon after I came here (years ago now) the badgers made a lovely job of digging up my lawn! The garden boundaries consisted simply of post & rail fencing and hawthorn hedging so I arranged for a local fencing contractor to fix some stock netting around all the boundaries. It was simple to attach it to the post & rail, and in order to "fence" the hawthorn hedge, short posts (approx. 4ft left above ground) were put in at the foot of the hedge and the netting fixed to those posts. Over the years the hawthorn has grown through and the posts & netting are no longer visible.
Stock netting - the sort which is used to keep livestock enclosed ( i.e not chicken wire) - is totally badger-proof. It's far too strong for them to get through, and perhaps the wire fence Ferline referred to is not the same sort.
Stock netting looks like squares & rectangles, not hexagons e.g. "chicken wire" - it is attached so that the rectangles are at the bottom of the fence line and the squares at the top. This is because the area of each rectangle is smaller than that of the squares and so prevents young lambs and suchlike from getting their heads through the gaps at the bottom.
Watch out that the badgers don't dig their way in - Springwatch this year showed how a badger had attempted to dig under the fence newly installed around The Scrape - thankfully the fence goes well below ground level and extends back towards the badger for quite a way, to prevent tunnelling under. They also have electric fencing along the top - as we saw on Springwatch, badgers are quite good climbers, getting a good six feet up a tree trunk!
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
It's kept them out for the past 20 or so years - so I reckon it works! They trot along the field on the other side of the fence these days, so I suppose the first generation of badgers who'd been used to getting in actually gave up, and the "pathway" now is a bit different, so I guess the later generations follow this altered route. There are some quite clear badger paths through the hedges and alongside the field edges round here - and, sadly, there's a dead badger on the kerb about a quarter of a mile away. A few weeks ago I dragged a dead one from the middle of the main road at the top of the lane. There are literally dozens of badgers within a couple of miles or so these days, and I see carcases on the roadside all too often. No hedgehog "bodies", no foxes, some rabbits, some grey squirrels - but more dead badgers than the rest put together.