We have badgers in the garden!

[Nicos]

For the past few early mornings we've heard grunting/growling/yapping and squealing in our garden - just beneath our bedroom window ...and been wondering what on earth has been making that noise.
OH has been 'doing a goooogle' ( yup- I'm training him up well ) and come up with this fantastic site!
Have a listen....

WildCRU | Research | Wildlife diseases

[roitelet]

Watch out for the chickens they will attack them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[veggiechicken]

Wow, Nicos!! I've listened to all the noises - some are so cat or birdlike I doubt that I could tell them apart in the wild. I like "Badchat" - could be the title for the Chat thread - or maybe the Rants

[Beanz]

We have badgers too Nicos. We find that they don't do any damage this time of year (touching wood!) just using the garden as a route to somewhere else it seems!

[VirginVegGrower]

We generally here them about 01-03am - I hope we continue to do so. By the way, they love peanuts and peanut butter. None have attacked our chicken run, so as long as you are secure by dusk, as most hen keepers are, you should be fine.

[Mikey]

I'm sure one of those were a pair of chipmunks!!!

[Nicos]

Watch out for the chickens they will attack them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They're locked indoors in the pigsty during the night behind an electric fence...should be OK- but thanks for the warning- I didn't know they'd attack chooks..yikes!

[binley100]

Wow..........first hedgehogs and now badgers .....

[Rustybean]

Badgers invade my allotment especially to feast in the sweetcorn - every year, can anything stop them ? (Apart from an electric fence) !

[Nicos]

Wow..........first hedgehogs and now badgers .....

...yeh...it can get quite boring round here- what with the green woodpeckers,pheasants,owls,buzzards,grass snakes,slow worms, voles, mice, hornets,hares, weird and wonderful butterflies and moths, different varieties of bat...etc etc....it's no wonder Albert peacock up and left his chook friends is it?

[binley100]

...yeh...it can get quite boring round here- what with the green woodpeckers,pheasants,owls,buzzards,grass snakes,slow worms, voles, mice, hornets,hares, weird and wonderful butterflies and moths, different varieties of bat...etc etc....it's no wonder Albert peacock up and left his chook friends is it?

I'd be quite happy to be bored ......

[VirginVegGrower]

I'd be quite happy to be bored ......

You need to move in next to me hen

[binley100]

Only if I can bring our lottie too............

[VirginVegGrower]

Only if I can bring our lottie too............

Could be tricky you could make the garden your allotment. Similar size. You'd have the badgers, foxes, mice, squirrels, voles, woodpeckers, beds of prey, woodland birds.

[binley100]

as long as there's not flamin' wabbits.......