How do you get rid of badgers?
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Chris71 said:
Limited success with, erm, marking my territory. If anyone is planning to do that, I think you need to pee into a suitable vessel throughout the day and then line the entire perimeter of the affected area at dusk! Fortunately we don't have an especially large garden and I drink a lot of tea...
It's not fully solved the problem, though. The b
ds are everywhere.
I have the same problem, also a couple of setts.It's not fully solved the problem, though. The b
ds are everywhere.I couldn't be arsed with the pissing thing, I'll ask the wife instead.
Camoradi said:
mikal83 said:
It has been said many times b4, if badgers passed a disease onto say dogs, there'd be a national outcry. But as its only Range Rover driving uber rich farmers.......................
Dogs owners would vaccinate their pets, as they do against other diseases
rovermorris999 said:
They are a pain but I do get a buzz every time I see them. On balance, I'd rather have them than not but I think there are too many now. Hedgehogs have disappeared round my way and ground-nesting birds take a hammering.
Nooooooooooooooooo May says that's a myth that the badger pop has exploded whilst HH's have all but disappeared.We've just got a bit of livestock mesh along the boundary with the field and that keeps them out and saves having to run around the garden in the early hours trying to urinate on them etc. It's the sodding magpies that have found something to eat in the lawn and are currently ripping it to shreds. If they persist much longer I feel I may have to go South London on them.
rovermorris999 said:
Get yourself a couple of Larsen traps and do the rest of the avian population a favour. When I first moved here there was a flock of about 30 magpies and not much else. A bit of a campaign against them and now we have a healthy and varied bird population.
In all likelihood, Messrs Holland and Holland will end up having a brief conversation with them. Japveesix said:
Blackpuddin said:
If anybody comes up with an answer to this can they please tell my golf club as badgers have trashed the course. Again. Oddly though they leave the greens alone.
Greens tend to be heavily sprayed with fertilizers, moss killers (iron sulfate), growth regulators etc, they also have no thatch layer (for things to live in) and suffer from compaction. So generally just provide a rubbish habitat for grubs/worms etc that badgers are looking for,
Willy Nilly said:
I don't advacate killing them for sport or to extinction, but will someone please explain why these animals can't be controlled like nearly every other animal, they are almost at pest levels now.
why do you want them controlled, just out of interest. Yes the population have increased since the 90's but you do understand they are part of the countryside ecosystem,Willy Nilly said:
I don't advacate killing them for sport or to extinction, but will someone please explain why these animals can't be controlled like nearly every other animal, they are almost at pest levels now.
It could be argued that there's only really one animal that's at pest level in this country now, and that's Homo Sapiens?Gassing Station | Homes, Gardens and DIY | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff