Fox kill a badger?

ABitofsense

Would a fox kill a badger?

I found a young dead badger in my ring fort outside a den which I always believed was the vixens den. She's still around as I see her abit in & out of the fort. I knew I had Badgers as they were rooting the ground but I never ever saw them. I even set trail cameras but only caught the fox & loads of mice. The weird thing is the area where the den is kinda destroyed and looks like marks on bushes & trees around it & den filled in with bits of stones & clay. I first though someone did it but there was no footprints or anything like that round. The rib cage is eaten & some of the insides on the badger. So that's why I'm thinking a fox!

athlone573

ABitofsense wrote: »

Would a fox kill a badger?

I found a young dead badger in my ring fort outside a den which I always believed was the vixens den. She's still around as I see her abit in & out of the fort. I knew I had Badgers as they were rooting the ground but I never ever saw them. I even set trail cameras but only caught the fox & loads of mice. The weird thing is the area where the den is kinda destroyed and looks like marks on bushes & trees around it & den filled in with bits of stones & clay. I first though someone did it but there was no footprints or anything like that round. The rib cage is eaten & some of the insides on the badger. So that's why I'm thinking a fox!

Have you seen the claws on a badger?

Maybe it died of TB and the fox ate it?

SuperSean11

I’m sure it could happen especially if it’s heading for the Cubs

ABitofsense

athlone573 wrote: »

Have you seen the claws on a badger?

Maybe it died of TB and the fox ate it?

We wouldn't have much TB in our area. Could be 20 years or more since my father had a reacter on the farm