Hedgehog Woe!!!!

[tufftie]

Originally Posted by mystic meg

Hi,
If we take in any injured badgers and they lose their appetite which is very common, they can go for a week before without food. So you have to tempt them to eat, we have been known to make them honey sandwiches, wholemeal ofcourse!

They like chocolate and hazelnut spread ones too! Something made me jump and it got dropped and didn't last long. Trinity said he'd never tasted anything so good (the badgers have names of Spaghetti Western characters, don't ask me why - well Trinity's eating habits and noises are pretty much like a badgers!)
Don't worry we don't treat them much - four times a year!

[BobE]

Originally Posted by tufftie

If badgers come in to your garden on a regular basis there is nothing you can do to keep them out - my neighbour has tried just about everything but they still come in. Ours are very tame and come right up to us we feed them a badger mix and the odd digestive biscuit as a treat. Personally I would have thought it should be okay but...

There's no way that we would want to stop our sett of badgers making their nightly visits to us.... Been feeding them for a long time now....
But we would really like to have a hedgehog or two or more visiting us as well....
We know that there are some about 1/4 mile away....

The nice informative lady from CRASH will not ( or cannot) let any be released here 'cause of the badgers...

So is it worth building/buying a Hedgehog box and hoping for a visitor finding it attractive and taking up residence??
Or are we barking up the wrong tree???
Should we just be satisfied with our present visitors and leave the envirionment well alone ???
The local badgers are well fed with all the DFLs (Down from Londons) moving into our area since it's been designated a National Park.. ( Won't go down that line )
And I guess we are not the only people round here who put food out for them on a nightly basis....( The badgers NOT the DFLs )

So do they really need a suppliment of hedgehogs???

Thanks for all the replies....

Back to fixing another bird box...

Cheers Bob E..........-

[paulinemiller10]

The reason why you have no hedgehogs is because you have badgers, hedgehogs will not make their homes near where badgers live, they just would nt last very long.
I look after hedghogs in my garden and care for the ones who are not heavy enough for hibernation, I also know a friend who does this, and she had one hoggy nearly ready for release in a pen and hutch, and a badger came one night, broke into the pen and tore the hoggy to bits, very sad.
Even if you did get a hedgehog, it would not stay in your garden with the smell of badger's about. Pauline.

[naturelover]

hi and a warm welcome to the site have fun.

[BobE]

Hello Again.... Been a great year for Badger watching...
But Last night whilst a Badger was having the evening peanut feast on the patio we saw, for the first time in our garden, a Hedgehog!!!
Now I'm frantically investigating which kind of box we should get...
Just had to tell some one and BTW the fat Badger paid absolutely no attention to the hoggie whch was about 6 feet away under the bird table..
So could they both be enticed to eat with us ??
Cheers BobE...