Badgers

[Walter swanston]

We lost two hens a Buff Orpintgton and a Scots Dumpy in the space of twenty minutes this morning,all that was left was a sprinkling of feathers .I think it was a large male badger with young to feed.

[peter2010]

Known them to take young lambs as well people think there cuddily things they don't know half the stuff they cause

[Guest chad3646]

We lost two hens a Buff Orpintgton and a Scots Dumpy in the space of twenty minutes this morning,all that was left was a sprinkling of feathers .I think it was a large male badger with young to feed.

 

 

when you say you think it was a badger,what were the signs imo it probably was reynard

[Walter swanston]

Well it could be a fox, but the birds wre taken away not eaten on the spot,a Buff Orpington in particular is a big heavy fowl.There are badgers in the vicinity,I have kept chickens here for 20 years and never had a problem with foxes.I lost a scots dumpy cock about two months age when a badger chew through the wall of the hut through the night.This attack this morning was in broad daylight, why is there such a prohibition on ordinary sensible men like me keeping firearms'

[Guest chad3646]

walter at this time of year the fox are feeding young so that is the reason they are taking them away they will be back for more