Rodent issue with lawn

[Oddsocks]

Right guys and girls I've got an issue that testing my patience, we moved into a new house in November and it had a small scrape on the grass suggestive of badgers. We do have a badger set behind the house but the damage I'm getting isn't scrapes like you expect from badgers.

I'm getting holes the size of a coke can all over the grass, filled them in and just as it starts to grow they appear again.

At the weekend I refilled with compost seed mix and covered the grass in mole / rodent repellent granules and after two days another 4 have appeared. Two on existing areas and two new.

I've checked and the holes are not burrows and are only about 4-5 inches deep.

I've googled and its suggestive of voles and said to urinate in the garden as the male peeeee puts them off but even that failed.

Help me out please BBQ season is around the corner and the lawn in just not ready for croquet championship season lol

 

[Old Skier]

Still sounds like badgers. If the holes are six inch coke size, forget the croquet championships and turn the lawn into a putting green.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

Gophers?

 

[Tashyboy]

Meteorites ?

 

[richart]

Sounds like badgers to me. We get them, and some of their divots are bigger than mine.

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Its badgers after worms, we have had similar

you need to establish your male pheromone around the areas where they enter your garden, an old fairy liquid bottle is good for this, just dont get it mixed up
They are strong beasts and if you barricade their entrances, they will just knock them down again

 

[Blue in Munich]

We have had similar, but it is definitely foxes, not badgers.

As an alternative to Fragger's solution, should you live near a zoo then you can apparently assist them in disposing of their big cat poo and fertilise the garden at the same time. :thup:

 

[SocketRocket]

Badgers tend to scratch away the surface in fairly big patches but not very deep, they are grubbing for worms.

 

[Oddsocks]

This is the thing, I've seen scrapes from badgers and they're not them.

I've tried pee'ing in effected areas and 2/3days later they are back!

We have boarded up one hold by extending the fence panel with 10mm ply, batten and a concrete breeze block(it's behind a hedge so not an eye sore, only one other place possible for them to access through.

Fragged by male feromone.......

 

[Blue in Munich]

If it is foxes they will comfortably clear a 6' fence…………...

 

[Imurg]

Just buy a Lion........

 

[Oddsocks]

Just buy a Lion........

I've suggested her in doors sleeps in the garden with recent moods , that should scare them off!

So is there anything I can spray on the grass to deter the little blighters

 

[SocketRocket]

I've suggested her in doors sleeps in the garden with recent moods , that should scare them off!

So is there anything I can spray on the grass to deter the little blighters

Napalm!

 

[DCB]

Napalm!

Good for controlling the midges as well

 

[Spear-Chucker]

Friend of ours went down the lion poo route (in a manner of speaking) and claimed it worked at treat - think they had a fox problem from what I can remember. You can get granules impregnated with garlic which puts many smaller creatures off but have to keep putting it down which can get expensive.

 

[Evesdad]

We've had badgers recently, apart from the big hole dug under one fence they decided to knock straight through the other! Two strips of the panel straight off! Lawns ok though!

 

[Rooter]

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