What’s to become of the Badgers!
Bovine TB is an unstoppable problem, or so it seems, if the government and farmers do not agree on a strategy to tackle this growing disease.
Should DEFRA be doing more to help?
What role should the government have?
Should Farmers be putting their point of view across more forcefully?
Should we vaccinate?
Should we cull?
And whats the badger doing, snuffling around for worms, he doesn’t care at the moment. All this indecision means he is left in peace to get on with his life.
Have your say here.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
The science behind culling is out of date and mis leading. The dairy farmers just don’t understand that it is not the badgers that spread it but the cows themselves that give it to the badgers. How can cattle farmers have any regard for their own livestock when all they want to do is kill other species.
This is just typical double standards by arrogant farmers that still maintain the ‘ get off my land attitude ‘.
Who needs dairy farmers anyway when we can buy cheaper products from abroad.
Long live the badger and cull the farmer I say.
July 14th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I am glad there is to be no cull,
In Ireland they have been culling badgers since the eighties, in some parts of Ireland the badger is now virtually extinct.
However according to a report, available online at the badger trust sight or the government sight.
Instances of Bovine TB,have risen in Ireland by 13%. despite the mass cull of badgers.
So please do not let them make the same mistakes hear, I am a retired farmer not a bunny hugger, I know what it’s like waiting for the test results.
But I still think culling badgers is wrong, where would you stop, so many other forms of wildlife have the disease, deer,foxes,mink,moles,rats mice and voles, and even bats.
How do bats get it, I think they drink at water troughs and ponds used by cattle.
Or they eat insects, that have fed on cow dung.
Vaccinate the cattle,