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07-05-2007, 02:05 PM
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07-05-2007, 07:27 PM
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EEkssssss  What awful news for badgers.. Can anything be done to stop this happening??? It looks like it has already been decided 
I maybe being really stupid now but can nothing be done to stop badgers carrying TB???? or are they natural carriers of it.... 
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07-05-2007, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Kymba  EEkssssss What awful news for badgers.. Can anything be done to stop this happening??? It looks like it has already been decided
I maybe being really stupid now but can nothing be done to stop badgers carrying TB???? or are they natural carriers of it.... | research shows that the badgers pick up the tb from the cows not vice versa - thus the answer is obvious , vacinate the flippin cattle
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07-05-2007, 09:00 PM
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And test the cattle properly before moving them!
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08-05-2007, 06:11 PM
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Originally Posted by badgerwatcher | My in laws have badgers at the bottom of their not very
rural garden, on the boudnary to the house in the next
road.
Root vegetables have proved impossible, but my Pa-in-law
seems to have no problem with rasberries, currants
and gooseberries.
He has no problem with runner beans so long as he plants
them out at about 18ins high, and when all the garden
is wet - if he waters them in they get dug up, as they go
for the wet soil (and presumably the worms).
Heavy duty sheep fencing dug two foot into the ground
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14-05-2007, 06:53 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Laindon, Basildon, Essex.
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Badgers are now being blamed for the decline of Hedgehogs! ....
The NUF has a vested interest in discrediting Badgers! ....
Wait for tomorrow's headline .... " Badgers responsible for global warming" .... Farmers blame badgers for killing off hedgehogs
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14-05-2007, 07:11 AM
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Originally Posted by nightshade Just as a matter of interest,have you seen the avtar of life through a lense? | Will somebody please explain to me what a "lense" is |
14-05-2007, 11:43 AM
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In my ignorance I hadn't realised that badger culling in England had stopped but I did hear the news coming out of Ireland this morning about its ineffectiveness.
The lack of culling (which I am glad about) means that the badger population in my area (Cheshire) seems to be on the increase. There are a number of tell-tale signs: sadly there is a greater incidence of road kill victims but on the positive side there are far more setts around and greater evidence in the fields and elsewhere of badgers digging for food. In fact during last summer there was one occasion when a number of badgers went along to the vicarage gardens for a rave - the centre of the lawn was totally trashed so it must have been quite a feeding frenzie.
I hope that the culling can be avoided - I would hate to see the population decline again. |
14-05-2007, 12:03 PM
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Do badgers really eat hedgehogs ? I saw badgers, foxes and a hedgehog feeding side by side in a badger-watching vigil propping up the bar in Saundersfoot, west wales. The badgers have been feeding there for many years, fab B & B, they feed them the remains of dinner; jam sandwiches are their fave apparently.
My partner is a police officer and caught TB a few months ago, we were told by medical staff that the influx of foreign students and asylum seekers has been responsible for the massive increase in TB. I hate the whole culling mentality, we kill enough of them by car and should leave well alone. | | | |
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