THE BADGER

Badger Meles meles

Size 67-90 cm tail 11-20 cm

Weight 6-17 kg Year pup around 5 kg in September

On the meny The badger is a all eater, they enjoy worms,insekts,bugs,eggs,birds,young rabbits,rats etc and also fruits and seed. Its easy to se that the badger have for dinner if the feces is hard its fruits etc and if its mellow its animal food.

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The reasson for hunting badger in Sweden is they destroy house grounds,plantations and kill lots of chickens and fowl. They are also involved in lots of road accedents. As the hunting for badger is not the top priority for the weekend hunter the badger have increase and today over 35000 badgers a year is shoot. As the fox havent rehad from the mangle period in Sweden the badger have more burrows to nest and this increase the litters. And the best way to control the badger population is by terrier hunt and the Patterdale is a great choose for this.