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What do we do about the badger?

Susan57Susan57 Posts: 1
in Wildlife gardening

we used to have hedgehogs in the garden but last year we had a badger who visited ours and neighbouring gardens. We have tried to make the garden badger proof but to no avail. It digs up the lawns, breaks in under the fences and generally causes mayhem. Help.  We now have no hedgehogs, we understand badgers kill them.

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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    they do indeed Susan. They flip them over and use their claws to rip the guts out of our little spikey friends.

    Devon.
  • Joe_the_GardenerJoe_the_Gardener Posts: 876

    Edd,

    Why would you expect see badgers when you've spent ten years digging for bottles next to their sett? Or have I mistaken what you're trying to say?

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,503

    Did I miss something? Who mentioned killing them?

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • AngelAngel Posts: 57

    I must have missed.something to. Oh well I am getting on a bit so maybe that's it. 

  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511

    Badgers are protected....learn to live with him/her.

    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • RedwingRedwing Posts: 1,511

    "Yeah right. ??5m spent by the police in Somerset protecting the badger cullers. Ha!"

     

    I am not going to respond to this. I am assuming Susan57 lives outside of that area.

    Based in Sussex, I garden to encourage as many birds to my garden as possible.
  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468

    Learn to live with it. Unless you are going to put up a concrete wall, they will go where they want. It's illegal to interfere with wildlife, so Im afraid you're probably stuck with them.

  • Joe_the_GardenerJoe_the_Gardener Posts: 876

    "It's illegal to interfere with wildlife"

    This is a rather simplistic interpretation of the laws in respect of wildlife. Susan57 asked a reasonable question which has resulted in one or two comments that are off the point. There's nothing to stop Susan57 preventing badgers from coming into her garden, as long as their sett isn't in the garden. Hedgehog conservation is a separate matter.

  • Jimmy CrawfordJimmy Crawford Posts: 468

    Its a fair statement though. Unless she wants to put in a wall with deep foundations, they will tunnel under or through to get in. So there's not much to be done. Doing anything to drive them off would be a grey area and probably best avoided. Unless you're a farmer and then you can probably fill your boots.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,142

    You may find this of interest http://www.hedgehogstreet.org/pages/predators.html

     

     


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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