Badgers

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Evening,

Have found a house we quite like, but there are quite a few what appear to be badger sets right in the middle of a few of the fields. Am going to ask estate agents to get owner to set up some trap cameras to see if they are active or not but what are peoples thoughts?

We could fence them off from the horses so the badgers can still get in but horses can't but would rather they were not there. We had a corner of a field at old rented property fenced off for badgers, but they weren't content and kept sneaking further and further out into the field so I know they don't like to stay put.

I am not in anyway suggesting any harm to the badgers, we don't own this house we are just looking at it but don't want to end up with no turn out due to badger ? setts.

Many thanks folks

 

[HashRouge]

Evening,

Have found a house we quite like, but there are quite a few what appear to be badger sets right in the middle of a few of the fields. Am going to ask estate agents to get owner to set up some trap cameras to see if they are active or not but what are peoples thoughts?

We could fence them off from the horses so the badgers can still get in but horses can't but would rather they were not there. We had a corner of a field at old rented property fenced off for badgers, but they weren't content and kept sneaking further and further out into the field so I know they don't like to stay put.

I am not in anyway suggesting any harm to the badgers, we don't own this house we are just looking at it but don't want to end up with no turn out due to badger ? setts.

Many thanks folks

That would put me off, unless there is so much land that you can afford to lose some to the badgers!

ETA my parents currently have an enormous crater in their lawn, where horses from the neighbouring field escaped and one of them stood on a weak bit of earth and collapsed the lawn into a badger sett. We didn't even know the sett was there before, and there is no entrance nearby. So I suppose another worry is that badger setts can extend a really long way and you wouldn't know how deep they were/ whether the ground might give way above them.

 

[ElleSkywalkingintheair]

Some Google earth investigation shows the two main sett entrances have been there a while, one sett had what looked like fresh poop at the entrance so it's an established sett I guess ?