Badger culling?

[Ryan_b_09 18]

Whats your thoughts on badger culling?

[bushing lad 114]

wish they where culling them round here too many of the beasts around and ime sure their to blame for the decline in the hare population

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

Needs to be done but not for TB reasons but to reduce the numbers as you cant have a top predator in the food chain unchecked .

 

We need to have quailfied persons to take care of badgers in control humane way and not for sporting reasons .

 

Not ever tom dick and harry with terriers .

 

ATB Cookie

[Guest ragumup]

They should see if the badger trust and rspca want to pay the 100.000.000 pounds per year to the farmer as compensation, instead of the tax payers having to foot the bill........to stop the cull... see if they like that idea ?

Edited September 17, 2012 by ragumup

[Guest bezza]

I can't see it being effective. There's that many it just takes one to escape the cull and infect a herd. It would have to be done thoroughly over several years. I can see some antics from animal rights activists as well.

I would like to make farmers take out insurance against all infectious diseases so we don't pick up the tab through our taxes. Talk about a compensation culture!

[Ryan_b_09 18]

You all av very good points in my opinion I think they should be shot to try reduce the tb a it's costing farmers millions per year

[reddawn 2,173]

i think its progress, the smelly fookers have been far too protected, there numbers have rocketed an keep doing so, why should they have more protection than any other animal, its fooking madness, they are a pest no more no less, lets hope this cull is deemed a success an folk are allowed to cull them where ever they are a pest, i know dogmen will never get the job, but hey they still need kept in check, as do everything, its common sense

[Guest cookiemonsterandmerlin]

So long as they dont cull this one otherwise what will the jobless THL feckers watch during the day

[123456 146]

we where out in around east devon/somerset border last night and must have seen 50-60 of the things. 1,2 and 3s on every field so would say they need controlling there but closer to home i dont see one from one week to the next and then when i do they are normally on there way through a hedge. think its like all over animals, if they werent protected there would be a good balance as people would kill the odd one here and there

[foxdigger13 114]

Needs to be done but not for TB reasons but to reduce the numbers as you cant have a top predator in the food chain unchecked .

 

We need to have quailfied persons to take care of badgers in control humane way and not for sporting reasons .

 

Not ever tom dick and harry with terriers .

 

ATB Cookie

 

Do you think its ok to dig foxes with terriers?

[gonetoearth 5,144]

put this in to context vulpus is a pest meles meles is a pest , the latter has been put on a peddistal by the badger trust etc bovine tb costs this nation billions not only through compensation to dairy and beef farmers bovine tb is spreading into deer herds wild and farmed defra have spent millions on trial testing etc now they have come up with a cull by rifle this is appeasement , when local knowlege should be used setts located , and monited to asses numbers using the sett if they are found to be contaminated a cull should take place now follows the contensious bit if its ok to use terriers in protection of game birds why is it not ok to use the same terriers to locate dig to and humanely kill meles meles in protection of bovines , the goverment sanctioned the report and hunting enqiry , gamebirds more important than lambs and cattle , LIGHT THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER STAND WELL BACK under licence of course not every tom dick and harry with a plummer

Edited September 17, 2012 by gonetoearth

[reddawn 2,173]

put this in to context vulpus is a pest meles meles is a pest , the latter has been put on a peddistal by the badger trust etc bovine tb costs this nation billions not only through compensation to dairy and beef farmers bovine tb is spreading into deer herds wild and farmed defra have spent millions on trial testing etc now they have come up with a cull by rifle this is appeasement , when local knowlege should be used setts located , and monited to asses numbers using the sett if they are found to be contaminated a cull should take place now follows the contensious bit if its ok to use terriers in protection of game birds why is it not ok to use the same terriers to locate dig to and humanely kill meles meles in prevention of bovines , the goverment sanctioned the report and hunting enqiry , gamebirds more important than lambs and cattle , LIGHT THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER STAND WELL BACK

 

 

atleast the stripey fookers aint untouchable anymore...

[foxdigger13 114]

put this in to context vulpus is a pest meles meles is a pest , the latter has been put on a peddistal by the badger trust etc bovine tb costs this nation billions not only through compensation to dairy and beef farmers bovine tb is spreading into deer herds wild and farmed defra have spent millions on trial testing etc now they have come up with a cull by rifle this is appeasement , when local knowlege should be used setts located , and monited to asses numbers using the sett if they are found to be contaminated a cull should take place now follows the contensious bit if its ok to use terriers in protection of game birds why is it not ok to use the same terriers to locate dig to and humanely kill meles meles in prevention of bovines , the goverment sanctioned the report and hunting enqiry , gamebirds more important than lambs and cattle , LIGHT THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER STAND WELL BACK under licence of course not every tom dick and harry with a plummer

 

Well put fella, I can not see the difference between digging the two from a control point of view.

[tilimangro 1,013]

if its proven that badgers undeniably spread tb to cattle then the animal rights people are arse backwards asmore cattle will be slaughtered having caught tb than any badgers would be,but then i guess they pick and chose which animals have the most rights!!

[Nik_B 3,790]

I wonder if in the long run this is going to do more damage to hunting. Like how the anti hunting lobby used public opinion against fox hunting to attack other forms of hunting.