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Badgers digging in field

  • 06-10-2012 07:33PM
    #1
    Ireland4eva
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1 ✭


    I have a problem with badgers digging in a field. The field in about 4 acres with a heavy grass growth. The badgers are digging massive holes everywhere and it's destroying the field and killing the grass. Is there any legal way of stopping this. I think it's illegal to kill them anyway.


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  • #2
    Birdnuts
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,151 ✭✭✭✭Birdnuts


    Contact your local NPWS ranger - if the damage is that severe they will trap and re-locate said badger. It does sound like an unusual case though in that badgers will usually only excavate setts in woodland or large hedges with good cover.

    PS: Are you sure its not rabbits doing this as I've seen similiar cases with them damaging pasture in areas with sandy soils??


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    Manoffeeling
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