Re: Do Badgers store food like canines do?
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11/25/20 10:42 PM
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Badgers will take whole ears of corn into their 'den' hole in the winter.
I know, I know, badgers are carnivores, right? Thirty some years ago, an old guy told me about the corn, I thought he was blowin smoke. Turns out he was dead on, as I have seen it first hand.
Sorry I doubted you, Benny, Rest in peace
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Re: Do Badgers store food like canines do?
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11/26/20 01:43 AM
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They are truly amazing animals! Wish I could 'Like' that post, to show my appreciation. As it is; I've only ever dealt with the European species of badger. Extremely limited experience with even them. I'd Love to hear from anyone with good experience between the two though. That'd be a story worth listening to! Storing / Hoarding food though? What a fascinating concept! But; Aren't your badgers much more solitary creatures? Ours seem to live in more extended family groups. Down holes.
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Re: Do Badgers store food like canines do?
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11/26/20 07:13 AM
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We had sort of a pet one when were kids. Sort of because it wasn't like he ever let us pet him. We would give him different things to eat...rabbits, venison, a carp or two, thst sort of thing. He usually took a few bites then buried the rest. Would dig that up later and eat it or he would carry it over to another part of the pen and re-bury it. Mom made us get rid of him eventually. He stunk, he destroyed the pen and dirt floor, and whatever he kept burying and stashing really stunk. Reading this thread made me remember that thing and what he did with food we gave it. Maybe he was stashing food for later? We never tried to give it corn i always thought they were meat eaters too. I caught a heck of a lot of badgers over the years in coyote dirtholes with aged baits, and many of those were in or near corn fields. Hmmm. Jim
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Re: Do Badgers store food like canines do?
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11/26/20 11:57 AM
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Seen several through the years that will dig under a cow carcass and claim it as theirs. Live under and inside it after they get it hollowed out! They eat skunks readily, even seen the pods gone in some situations. Corn eaters they are for sure, set a "coon" toilet once, next day was a badger in the 220, laying on his back, with the same poop coming out of him! My bad! Had many experiences with them trough the years, much too much to write! One more, caught one in a fox set. Been trapping that area for quite a few years, and turning them all loose because early badgers aren't worth messing with. I pull up to the set, the set isn't torn up,which is unusual. Badger holds up his foot with the trap on it, as if to show me that he's caught. I get out and walk up to him, no fight at all, take him out of the trap with the catch pole, still no fight, let him go and he goes a little ways, turns around and looks at me for a bit, then just goes on! As if to say, thanks! Was the only badger I ever caught that didn't make a crater. They act dumb, but I feel their intellgence is higher than most give them credit for.....but the are fighters!
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Re: Do Badgers store food like canines do?
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11/26/20 12:55 PM
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Short answer yes.. i think depends on whats available. manytimes ive seen a whole head sunflower stalk drug down the hole.. also have seen them bury and burrow under dead carcass as previously said. one early spring there was fresh snow .. he came out of a monster hole that i knew was a den.. i followed his tracks all around my home quarter section... he investigated at least 30 holes would dig snow out ... some you could see he got a mouse nest.. most he just sniffed and went on.. he traveled well over a mile criss crossing field. i wonder how he knew where all them holes were being under snow... most were old and didnt have a mound. but he had his gps spot on and knew. he then went back to his big hole.... i set it up for at least 3 weeks and never got him.. i figgured it was a female with kits so i pulled..
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