badger cull

[B&W FOX]

In 2012 36000 cattle were slaughtered because of TB, in 2011 the number was 22000, in 2010 it was 17000 so as you can see it is increasing at an alarming rate and something needs to be done to control it, it is even now affecting herds that have always been TB clear. It is "YOU" the tax payer that pays for the compensation claims for all the beef and dairy cattle that gets slaughtered and that costs millions.

Badgers have NO natural predators, apart from the odd Ford Focus or Volvo

The cull will start in North Gloucestershire and North Somerset on the 1st June this year and will run until 1st January 2014, by which time around another 42000 more cattle would have been needlessly slaughtered because of a disease that is carried and spread by badgers.

If TB was spread by foxes no body would give a second thought about culling them. And a lot of the people on this forum put in quite a few hours trying to keep them under control anyway.

A fox is a wild animal and so is a badger and one of them has always been on the hit list!!!!!!!!
Amen.

[wiseoldowl]

In 2012 36000 cattle were slaughtered because of TB, in 2011 the number was 22000, in 2010 it was 17000 so as you can see it is increasing at an alarming rate and something needs to be done to control it, it is even now affecting herds that have always been TB clear. It is "YOU" the tax payer that pays for the compensation claims for all the beef and dairy cattle that gets slaughtered and that costs millions.

Badgers have NO natural predators, apart from the odd Ford Focus or Volvo

The cull will start in North Gloucestershire and North Somerset on the 1st June this year and will run until 1st January 2014, by which time around another 42000 more cattle would have been needlessly slaughtered because of a disease that is carried and spread by badgers.

If TB was spread by foxes no body would give a second thought about culling them. And a lot of the people on this forum put in quite a few hours trying to keep them under control anyway.

A fox is a wild animal and so is a badger and one of them has always been on the hit list!!!!!!!!
Amen.

yes but culling them will not cure the problem ,tb is here & will be here its not going to go away killing the badgers unless you eradicate the lot ,amen

[Gloop]

Not knowing anything about TB. Is it definite that the badgers carry it. Deer can carry it as well so who is the main culprit?

[wiseoldowl]

Not knowing anything about TB. Is it definite that the badgers carry it. Deer can carry it as well so who is the main culprit?

& cattle also carry tb & pass it on to the badgers lol ? never ending circle ?

[rodp]

So,............the solution is.............. ?? ....................Anyone ???????????????

[fizzbangwhallop]

We had someone on the shoot that was on the DEFRA program testing badgers for TB just before Foot and Mouth struck... if I remember correctly, he said that 96% of the badgers caught tested positive for TB.

As Hillkeeper says it's the impact of an unchecked badger population on ground nesting birds and other now-endangered species such as the Hedghog that should be considered.

It's getting the same way with the raptors......................

I get fed up with feeding my garden birds well to see them decimated by predatory raptors and corvids. It gets my goat to see the RSPB appealing to everyone to feed birds through the hard spell and then preaching that raptors are the ultimate gods. They then get huffy and self-righteous about it when you point out that we're just feeding the cannon-fodder.

Mad.

Anon.
Me... all my life I've tended to stick up for the underdog against the bullies.

[michael40]

We had someone on the shoot that was on the DEFRA program testing badgers for TB just before Foot and Mouth struck... if I remember correctly, he said that 96% of the badgers caught tested positive for TB.

As Hillkeeper says it's the impact of an unchecked badger population on ground nesting birds and other now-endangered species such as the Hedghog that should be considered.

It's getting the same way with the raptors......................

I get fed up with feeding my garden birds well to see them decimated by predatory raptors and corvids. It gets my goat to see the RSPB appealing to everyone to feed birds through the hard spell and then preaching that raptors are the ultimate gods. They then get huffy and self-righteous about it when you point out that we're just feeding the cannon-fodder.

Mad.

Anon.
Me... all my life I've tended to stick up for the underdog against the bullies.

I know what your saying, you do find that people who don't see the slaughter bang on about something they have very little knowledge about.

If TB hit the cats and dogs in our lives, things would move a lot quicker than they are now.

There would be out cry why something hadn't been done already.

[fizzbangwhallop]

I know what your saying, you do find that people who don't see the slaughter bang on about something they have very little knowledge about.

If TB hit the cats and dogs in our lives, things would move a lot quicker than they are now.

There would be out cry why something hadn't been done already.

I'd like to see the cat that walked across my fresh concrete block get hit by TB

Fizz


ps .. only joking.