[Remy]

I am inundated with all three and they are getting to be a real pain on my land.  The badgers live in my dividing hedge and each year have doubled their excavations, we now have three mountains of soil about my height on one side of the hedge, and a slowly increasing mountain the other side!  Not to mention I have stock fencing where they are digging and they are now digging up the fence posts!!      They also make huge holes which we have to fill in regularly in case the horses put a foot down.

Now the rabbits seem to be following suit (except they have decided they are going to dig around the gate posts), they are also digging up largre patches of land in the middle of the fields. And our mole population has taken off  - we now have multiple molehills in every field  .

Anyone have any suggestions   

[Fleecewife]

Mole catcher for the moles, a gun and rabbit pie for the bunnies, but I don't think there's a  lot you can do about the badgers unless you are in an area where the licensed cull has been approved.  Maybe you could make them into a tourist attraction    Could you fence off the whole area with a reasonable margin so they are not toppling fence posts, and just accept they are there, immovable like a pond or small woodland?

[Mammyshaz]

A large male farm cat might help with rabbits and moles.  You never know, the badgers may get huffed at a pestering cat and move house too.
Other than that a mole catcher and a shotgun is all that comes to mind. N ot very helpful, sorry.

[Remy]

Could you fence off the whole area with a reasonable margin so they are not toppling fence posts, and just accept they are there, immovable like a pond or small woodland?

Trouble is they're not immovable, they are taking up more of my fields every year! I wouldn't mind if they just stayed in the hedge  - if I fenced off an area, you can bet they'd fill it and move ever outwards till my entire acreage was badger setts 

In my locality the biggest form of roadkill is badgers.  Except I don't think it's roadkill. I reckon the farmers kill them and place them on the side of the road.  Apparently one neighbour told me that he saw a couple of them sitting up side by side on the edge of the road - not quite how you would imagine they'd end up if hit by a car! 

[mandos1993]

lots of different methods for moles and rabbits nothink you can do for badger unless your in a cull area and have cattle ? moles are easy to either gas out or use scissor traps rabbits use either cage traps air rifle or snares and mk6 traps 

[tobytoby]

Last year i had to get a licence to clear a ditch that the badgers had filled in by scraping out their entrance to the Sett.You are only granted this for a few months of the year - outwith this period you shouldn't be within 30m of a Sett?
Obviously if you are a private individual you can get away with more, but as i work for a maintenance company, we have to declare what we do or face huge penalties.

[clydesdaleclopper]

A large male farm cat might help with rabbits and moles.  You never know, the badgers may get huffed at a pestering cat and move house too.

I don't think they'd be too bothered by a cat - one of the badgers round here attacked our wolfhound when OH took him out for a walk one night

[Penninehillbilly]

how about a low elecric fence for badgers, jst to stop them approaching the fence.

[fifixx]

You can buy badger fencing (they use it for motorways) - check with Natural England, but I would think you can fence where they haven't been to stop them encroaching more - it is tough wire and gets dug in.  Just google!

You can be authorised to move them, why not get in touch with your local wildlife trust - they should be sympathetic and give good advice

I have a barn full of them - waiting for a survey.  Right by a road too, so can't see how the 20 metre rule could ever apply!

[Smalltime]

how about a low elecric fence for badgers, jst to stop them approaching the fence.

that would be my suggestion also, about 1.5 joules output needed so i have been told.