cockercas Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 ive just phoned my mate who i shoot foxes for on his permission, asked he he had had a walk around looking for any paw prints in the snow. yes he said fox and badger prints going into the same earth/den. he's been told they can live together, now im not so sure, in fact im positive this isnt the case. so im throwing it out there, opinions please. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inthedark Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 It's not uncommon to find them down together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dekers Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 If you mean live together as in cuddle up next to each other down the same hole that's news to me. They certainly can/do live in very close proximity to each other, they are the country's two biggest carnivores. Just the same, each has a healthy respect for the other and they will next to never even think of having a scrap, they know they both stand a good chance of injury, although general suggestion would have the Badger as winner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockercas Posted February 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 If you mean live together as in cuddle up next to each other down the same hole that's news to me. They certainly can/do live in very close proximity to each other, they are the country's two biggest carnivores. Just the same, each has a healthy respect for the other and they will next to never even think of having a scrap, they know they both stand a good chance of injury, although general suggestion would have the Badger as winner! he said they was going into the same den. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 Common for them to share an earth or should that be sett? Depends on if your the fox or badger i supose Its not even that unusual to find rabbits in the same earth as a fox, mainly this is an enlarged section of the rabbit warren opened up by a fox digging for the bunnies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockercas Posted February 8, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 Thanks Kent. Sounds like a man speaking from experience. I'd of never believed it. Thankyou Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulpicide Posted February 8, 2012 Report Share Posted February 8, 2012 I have been hunting foxes with terriers for over 40 years in the early 70s 75% of all foxes we bolted came from occupied Badger sets the Terriers we used were taught to disregard badgers and they were also broken to rabbits. I know that foxes still use occupied badger settes the differance is it would now be illegal to enter a terrier.One day we had a fox a badger and a rabbit all in a 14 inch fire clay drain but it was'nt our terriers in the drain a rival had raced us to the drain and entered his terrier oh how we laughed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 I have been hunting foxes with terriers for over 40 years in the early 70s 75% of all foxes we bolted came from occupied Badger sets the Terriers we used were taught to disregard badgers and they were also broken to rabbits. I know that foxes still use occupied badger settes the differance is it would now be illegal to enter a terrier.One day we had a fox a badger and a rabbit all in a 14 inch fire clay drain but it was'nt our terriers in the drain a rival had raced us to the drain and entered his terrier oh how we laughed yes a terrier intended for fox should ignoor rabbits underground, how the heck do you get the blighters to ignoor badgers though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulpicide Posted February 9, 2012 Report Share Posted February 9, 2012 we've bred the same lines for forty years plus the pups are fixed onto fox as their quarry from an early age and discouraged to enter to badger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kent Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 I am talking in the same earth? In therory of course because such a thing would be illegal now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vulpicide Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 In my original answer I pointed out that a large proportion of Foxes were bolted from occupied badger settes these were in Lanarkshire for obvious reasons we don't do them now.They were very large badger settes and despite holding multiple badgers they would hold foxes up to 3 or 4 at a time, We had to abandon some ground after the badger act because even though we disregarded the badgers we would have been breaking the law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larp Posted February 10, 2012 Report Share Posted February 10, 2012 (edited) vixens will use badger sets this time of year to have there cubs in . i have spent many hours siting up by badger sets to shoot the foxes has they come out . ive been out checking the sets again today looking for signs of foxy . going to sit out tonight after them Edited February 10, 2012 by larp Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dougy Posted February 11, 2012 Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 You will also find that there are various areas in the origanal set that he badgers no longer use or use very little, they can at times cover an extremley large area underground, as said its not uncomon for fox's to move in. I have 2 permisions that have Fox and Badger using the same under ground system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cockercas Posted February 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted February 11, 2012 i looked at said sett last night. sure enough both fox and badger prints in the snow. along with some very small fox prints light enough not to sink into the snow around the entrance to one hole Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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