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Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: philcaegrug on November 27, 2015, 08:44:17 pm

Title: Badgers
Post by: philcaegrug on November 27, 2015, 08:44:17 pm

A customer of mine has a badger visit his garden most evenings.  Now the badger has started to excavate under his garden shed. What's the best way to deter him without causing harm?

Title: Re: Badgers
Post by: Marches Farmer on January 16, 2016, 09:41:38 pm

Mothballs, perhaps?  And block the route in.

Title: Re: Badgers
Post by: Bionic on January 17, 2016, 07:28:28 am

We had the same thing where I used to live. In the end the shed collapsed into the whole. We moved the shed and filled the while with concrete. That seemed to do the trick  :innocent:

Title: Re: Badgers
Post by: devonlad on January 17, 2016, 05:57:30 pm

Get him to pee there. Badgers don't like smell of male urine apparently. Whenever we get a badger issue I wee in a watering can for a few days and then sprinkle it about. I swear it works, tho some might dismiss as old wives tale I'm sure

Title: Re: Badgers
Post by: Fleecewife on January 17, 2016, 10:42:56 pm

Don't boys have a special sprinkle it everywhere bit of their own, so can miss out the middle man/piddle can    :sofa:

Title: Re: Badgers
Post by: devonlad on January 17, 2016, 11:17:01 pm

you're dead right FW- but a watering can means that OH can join in the sprinkle fest

Title: Re: Badgers
Post by: devonlady on January 18, 2016, 10:55:00 am

Make lots of noise around the shed, especially in the evening. He will soon go elsewhere.