Badger cull
25 October 2007, 08:22 AM
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Its fairly amazing to me anyway that ive never seen a badger - and ive spent at least 1/2 my life in the country .
Not surprising - they are nocturnal, and they live underground (the badgers that is, not country folk 
). I live in a completely rural area, I am often skulking around the fields in the middle of the night with a lamp looking for foxes and rabbits, yet the only time I see badgers is as roadkill.
25 October 2007, 01:41 PM
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Badgers spread TB.
TB was, until recently, all but eradicated in the UK, but it is now one of the fastest growing diseases again brought in by some of the workers from the former Soviet bloc countries [Poland Romania, Hungary, etc], cruise line crewmen from the Far East [although they have to have chest x-rays before being flown to meet the liner many get a fit "ringer" to go for the x-ray] and, still endemic in the UK countryside, badgers.
TB was, until recently, all but eradicated in the UK, but it is now one of the fastest growing diseases again brought in by some of the workers from the former Soviet bloc countries [Poland Romania, Hungary, etc], cruise line crewmen from the Far East [although they have to have chest x-rays before being flown to meet the liner many get a fit "ringer" to go for the x-ray] and, still endemic in the UK countryside, badgers.
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"Seems absolutly amazing that theryre is still debate on the transfer of disease - i mean it either happens or it dont . "
It is beyond question that there is a high incidence of M. bovis in the badger population. The debate is whether the badgers are just victims of the cattle infection or are they spreading it back to other cattle. Difficult to prove conclusively, but population and epidemiology studies strongly support the infection of cattle by badgers.
25 October 2007, 01:46 PM
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I can't believe we've got 3 pages into this thread without anyone suggesting we let loose packs of hunting horses to control the badger population ...
What is SN coming to ???
What is SN coming to ???
25 October 2007, 08:46 PM
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BTW, I once hit a badger with an old fiesta. new front panel, front member and radiator. bent exhaust and cracked manifold. The little sod still got up and ran off, didn't even get chance to back up over him (to put it out of it's misery).
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