Badgers

And most definitely put up a sign about not licking balls! :rolleyes:

Only really effective at getting (killing) the surface feeding ones, and then a fair amount of hassle - leaving clippings on the surface.

Might be a cure for greens but certainly not a 'green cure'!:(

Bloody expensive to spray an entire course too!

??? Greens but not a green cure :confused:

Just spray the areas where the Badgers are a pest.
 
Shoot them, at night, then run away,... nobody will know

just like the little oiks who light fires on the greens at our place

maybe the club should put up a bounty

but what is worth more , a badger or an oik?

Fragger
 
??? Greens but not a green cure :confused:

Just spray the areas where the Badgers are a pest.

As I posted previously, it would be expensive to spray the entire course - about 2.5k per time - repeated a couple of times each Autumn and Spring. It ONLY gets the casting ones (3 of the nearly 30 varieties) as it's only effective on the surface and has some pretty iffy possible side effects reported (reduced testicle sizes!). To be effective, sprayed grass clippings have to be left on the surface - so the surface feeding/casting worms collect it - so not a great method overall.

The Badgers detect worms, then rip up the turf, so they will move elsewhere if no worms are about. But that is still likely to be on the golf course!
 
Seems we've been hit by Badgers too. Playing over the weekend I noticed three parts of the course where the turf had been dug up in volumes. It looks like horses have been stomping all over the place but when discussing with one of the green staff he informed me that the badgers start digging it up and the crows follow it and make it worse. He's shot about 40 crows last week, but can't do anything about the badgers.
 
bloody badgers,i hate it when they dig up the course and leave their mess everywhere,the strange smell that they give off and the way they barge everywhere and don't give a dam for anyone else,and the cheeky blighters are now after cheaper green fees,cull the lot of them!!!!!
 
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