BADGERS - MARCH 2015
Badgers are frequent visitors to Hemsford with at least 4 regularly walking through our land on a nightly basis. Apparently badgers can walk as far as 10 miles in a night returning to their Sett by daylight having foraged during the darkness. Badgers will eat virtually anything, but they love worms and insects and dig holes to find these tasy morsels. Our badger colony prefer to scavenge for left over chicken pellets and corn, and regularly visit our hen run to clean up after the hens have gone to bed. Given the opportunity badgers will eat the hens, so we are vigilant at making sure the hens are shut in at dusk every night. The pictures below are a selection taken on one night in March 2015.