Road kills.

[samboy]

Hi gang.

              Drove 28 miles to my clay shoot this morning and counted at least 20 foxes dead at the side of the road

               and at least 20 on the way back. All small ones. I hate to see road kills.

[Zoli 12 guage]

6 minutes ago, samboy said:

Hi gang.

              Drove 28 miles to my clay shoot this morning and counted at least 20 foxes dead at the side of the road

               and at least 20 on the way back. All small ones. I hate to see road kills.

i'm the same to be fair.

i'd rather,if they're a problem to see them dead in a field.

[ditchman]

maybe the council has been catching them in the city...castrating them with the vet and then realeasing them into the country.............my mate has seen this happen at 2 oclock in the morning a big lorry turned up on his shoot and dropped off a shed load of foxes.....he shot 30 that night they had the fur missing around their muzzles where they had been licking out tins and cut marks and stiches around where their knackers were.....they were covered in mange

city waisters havnt a clue the damage this does to the wildlife in the country

[12gauge82]

11 minutes ago, ditchman said:

maybe the council has been catching them in the city...castrating them with the vet and then realeasing them into the country.............my mate has seen this happen at 2 oclock in the morning a big lorry turned up on his shoot and dropped off a shed load of foxes.....he shot 30 that night they had the fur missing around their muzzles where they had been licking out tins and cut marks and stiches around where their knackers were.....they were covered in mange

city waisters havnt a clue the damage this does to the wildlife in the country

I should imagine very cruel to, a city fox used to living on scraps isn't going to have a clue how to hunt for food.

[enfieldspares]

Young foxes are almost always the ones that get killed and now that "cubbing" is illegal (be that a bad thing or a good thing is not for my opinion here) there's more that die this way.

[ShootingEgg]

1 hour ago, samboy said:

Hi gang.

              Drove 28 miles to my clay shoot this morning and counted at least 20 foxes dead at the side of the road

               and at least 20 on the way back. All small ones. I hate to see road kills.

If you took the same route there and back you saw the same 20 twice 😉

Edited February 4, 2024 by ShootingEgg

[JKD]

53 minutes ago, ShootingEgg said:

If you took the same route there and back you saw the same 20 twice 😉

He's not sure how many there were, but he counted them on the way, and on the way out 🤓

See loads down here in the SE. Once saw one burst right open, in the middle of the road outside a girls school 😲 It was cleared very quickly 🙃

[TIGHTCHOKE]

As offered above, they will be "rescued" animals released in the wrong places.

 

There has been an increase in both dead deer and dead badgers around this part of the Lincs/Cambs border recently.

[team tractor]

20 hours ago, ShootingEgg said:

If you took the same route there and back you saw the same 20 twice 😉

😂I thought that 

[TIGHTCHOKE]

19 hours ago, JKD said:

He's not sure how many there were, but he counted them on the way, and on the way out 🤓

See loads down here in the SE. Once saw one burst right open, in the middle of the road outside a girls school 😲 It was cleared very quickly 🙃

What were you doing hanging around a girls school?    

[JKD]

9 minutes ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

What were you doing hanging around a girls school?    

OI !!! 😠 I was driving past in my way to a tool hire place at 0715, way before the gates were even open,,,, Honest guv ! 😆 Splattered fox was all over the central white lines, right where all the parents drop off their sprogs 😆🤣 TBH it wasn't a pretty sight 😳

Edited February 5, 2024 by JKD

[bluesj]

11 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

There has been an increase in both dead deer and dead badgers around this part of the Lincs/Cambs border recently.

Tomorrow I've got to pick up 5 deer, 6 badgers and a fox that have been kill on the roads around here, I picked up 2 deer and 3 badgers on Saturday.

[amateur]

The only badgers that I have ever seen were roadkill

 

[marsh man]

49 minutes ago, amateur said:

The only badgers that I have ever seen were roadkill

 

I am exactly the same , I saw a dead Otter on the roads years ago and it was only a few years ago I saw my first live one in the flesh , now they are still not a every day event but I do see them every so often .

With Badgers it different , I have seen a few dead corpse's on the roads , in fact there is a big one on the estates road right now , unless it have been cleared up over the last few days , they have no doubt came off the estate and after working and helping out on the shoots for well over 40 years I have still never seen a live one in the flesh .   MM

[London Best]

3 hours ago, TIGHTCHOKE said:

What were you doing hanging around a girls school?    

It could have been much worse, it could have been a boy’s school!

 

2 hours ago, amateur said:

The only badgers that I have ever seen were roadkill

 

You really need to get out in the countryside mere!

[amateur]

1 hour ago, London Best said:

You really need to get out in the countryside more!

I would, but then all I would see is more dead badgers.

[Gordon R]

The first time I saw a badger was when we were travelling from Dormy House Sunningdale, to the local pub. I was surprised how powerful it looked as it trundled across the road. 

A few years later, travelled down across Salisbury Plain with a mate to pick up a Clumber spaniel pup. After crossing the Plain, we saw just under 30 badgers, dead at the side of the road in about ten miles. It seemed a disproportionate number for the distance. 

[button]

On 05/02/2024 at 19:11, amateur said:

The only badgers that I have ever seen were roadkill

 

I’m with you and marsh man, seen hundreds, all dead! 

[JDog]

They were not this year's cubs. It's too early.

As has been stated they were probably released by some animal charity. That itself amounts to cruelty.

[islandgun]

Maybe some are dumped at the side of the road ! 

[oowee]

Any road killed badgers this way are cleared and cashed b4 daybreak. 

[old man]

On 06/02/2024 at 15:35, Gordon R said:

The first time I saw a badger was when we were travelling from Dormy House Sunningdale, to the local pub. I was surprised how powerful it looked as it trundled across the road. 

A few years later, travelled down across Salisbury Plain with a mate to pick up a Clumber spaniel pup. After crossing the Plain, we saw just under 30 badgers, dead at the side of the road in about ten miles. It seemed a disproportionate number for the distance. 

I used to have one nearly trip me up on a regular basis as I exited a shooting location at approximately the same time, on a weekly basis.

It was seemingly on a mission that crossed my path out?

A bit unnerving in the dusk the first few times.

Edited February 8, 2024 by old man

[fse10]

young dogs looking for love and coming a cropper.

[Cranfield]

On 08/02/2024 at 13:37, islandgun said:

Maybe some are dumped at the side of the road ! 

I have heard that this is well used method of disposal.

[Stephen-H]

13 hours ago, fse10 said:

young dogs looking for love and coming a cropper.

oh to be young and feel love's keen sting