Animal marks

melboy

Hi can anyone identify the type of animal that leaves these marks on my fields

leg wax

hard to tell by photos but it looks like a badger to me.

iverjohnston

Badger rooting for worms?

feartuath

iverjohnston wrote: »

Badger rooting for worms?

The Gruffalo !!

The man in red and black

The Beast of Craggy Island??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhT5aegUgg

Whatever you do don't tell your sheep about the marks!

Bodacious

The man in red and black wrote: »

The Beast of Craggy Island??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmhT5aegUgg

Whatever you do don't tell your sheep about the marks!

Badger

ravima

martians????

onyerbikepat

I wouldnt say it's badger. Badgers tend to root deeper and wider than that, but I could be wrong.

td5man

Badger id say. I dont like to see them around, lost 52 milkers with tb at one test they were coming through our yard to forage on a neighbours maize stubble.
Department culled 25 badgers and 80% of them had tb.

delaval

td5man wrote: »

Badger id say. I dont like to see them around, lost 52 milkers with tb at one test they were coming through our yard to forage on a neighbours maize stubble.
Department culled 25 badgers and 80% of them had tb.

Jesus that would break someone. Was there any mention of de population?
Does it happen any more?

td5man

delaval wrote: »

Jesus that would break someone. Was there any mention of de population?
Does it happen any more?

It did and by the time we got clear any compensation was long gone keeping things going so wasbt able to restock.
Its been a struggle to get going again, butnearly have numbers built up again.

Conmaicne Mara

There's a set in the top of the neighbours land, they're always digging up my place in Spring time when I'm trying to grow some grass.

Birdnuts

Possibly a badger but could also be anything from a fox to a deer. Its the latters breeding season atm and the males paw the ground making distinctive marks.

Sharpshooter82

seen a hare making marks like that in the lawn real early one morning, next time ill have the gun loaded

freedominacup

td5man wrote: »

It did and by the time we got clear any compensation was long gone keeping things going so wasbt able to restock.
Its been a struggle to get going again, butnearly have numbers built up again.

Took us 5 long tough years to get re-stocked when we have a similar outbreak 20 years ago. Same problem no de-population and comp money just get frittered away because you still have a lot of the fixed costs esp financial ones and if you are above a certain output then the comp is much reduced or certainly was then. If you get a big hit you should be pushing hard for a depopulation because it's a lot cleaner with reasonable comp for the period you are out of production and a much faster return to being allowed to re-stock. a neighbour had a big breakdown 2-3 years ago but then had 3 more failed tests so it was an eternity before he could even start to re-build.

It's one reason for carrying as many heifers as you can. They're an insurance policy, a fairly expensive one but a good one. we had another breakdown around 10 years ago and lost almost 15% of the milking herd in one test. We hardly missed a beat and in fact insisted in them taking another half dozen we weren't happy with, most of whom had lesions in the factory despite passing the test, because we had plenty of heifers coming through. In fact that year we got quota under the "hardship" scheme as we ended up going over through not being able to sell heifers.

jack77

badger, seen those marks around our place too