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Hedgehog decline
All these conservationists seemed puzzled about the decline in hedgehogs. This morning on TV news a professor suggested it was because of the increasing number of cars......... when was the last time anyone saw a squashed hedgehog on the roadside? It seems the experts don't know what is going on the countryside. Ask any countryman - it's the bloody badgers. .
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22nd Apr 2017 4:00 pm
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What about the travellers and their lust for hedgehog soup!! God created heavy armour on 06 sept 1916, on the 7th the devil stood to attention!
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22nd Apr 2017 4:17 pm
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Definitely badgers, but Chris Packham and his mates won't have it as badgers only eat fruit and worms DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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22nd Apr 2017 4:34 pm
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Re: Hedgehog decline
Canburne wrote:
when was the last time anyone saw a squashed hedgehog on the roadside? It seems the experts don't know what is going on the countryside.
I dont imagine it's the cars alone, but to answer your question, I see a flattened hedgehog on the roads round here at least once a week.Richard
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Yeah, see a few splattered hedgies myself.
What's the score with blaming the badgers, they do seem to get some pretty bad press at times?Mods:
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Pelyma wrote:
Definitely badgers, but Chris Packham and his mates won't have it as badgers only eat fruit and worms
Drove the A48 from Gloucester to Chepstew last week and must have counted 7 or 8 dead badgers in that distance. Can't remember seeing that many over a relatively short drive.
22nd Apr 2017 4:55 pm
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Narpy wrote:
Yeah, see a few splattered hedgies myself.
What's the score with blaming the badgers, they do seem to get some pretty bad press at times?
It's no secret that badgers love to eat hedgehogs and have a super efficient and clever method of doing so. Nor is it a secret that the badger population has increased hugely.
The major diet of badgers is earthworms but the animal is an opportunist feeder and if availability of their preferred diet is removed, as in times of drought, they will eat almost anything - hedgehogs, frogs, toads, grass snakes, free range lambs and piglets, bumble bees, ground nesting birds and their eggs - are all vulnerable. Numbers of skylarks and lapwings have for example plummeted in the last two decades. And as the number of badgers rises inexorably so will this impact on the countryside be increasingly felt.
It's a highly emotive subject as to many (especially Chris Packham and his followers) the badger can do no harm and are viewed through rose tinted glasses.
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Narpy wrote:
Yeah, see a few splattered hedgies myself.
What's the score with blaming the badgers, they do seem to get some pretty bad press at times?
Like LT said. There are now more badgers in many parts of the UK than foxes, they are the most protected specie on earth, the only animal that is protected as well as its home.DS3 TDV6 HSE - Silver with Alpaca (old one) Gone
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22nd Apr 2017 6:57 pm
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I've seen one squashed hedgehog in the last 20 years but hundreds of badgers - happily quite a few squashed badgers.....
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22nd Apr 2017 7:28 pm
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I saw a squashed one last year we have a live one living in a pile of old leaves in a corner, I put the leaves on top of an Aldi hedgehog house last year. I don't think it's in the house! Just in the pile next to it. Harry comes out in the evening for food. Mantec sump guard.
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we have a live one living in a pile of old leaves in a corner, I put the leaves on top of an Aldi hedgehog house last year. I don't think it's in the house! Just in the pile next to it. Harry comes out in the evening for food. 
