Badgers

[t-tung]

I saw a badger with what i THINK was one of her babies in her mouth crossing the road yesterday on the way up to one of the rigs today in western colorado. i'm not sure what baby badgers look like but whatever she had in her mouth was black. i can't think of any rodent that is all black around here. she was running from the lower creekside of the road across and up the side of the mountain which made since to me if it was a baby because of all the snow and runoff we've had up here.... anyone know any details about badger babies and when they have them? i almost got plowed by the Dalbo water truck behind me when i slowed down or i would have snapped some shots with my camera..... I saw a HUGE porcupine today that i stopped and snapped a few shots of though...

[Trouthunter]

A baby badger in the wild, but was closer than I wanted to be to one in New Mexico once while hunting mule deer lol.

Cool that you saw that.

TH

[Lezz Go]

Badgers!?! We don't need no stinkin' badgers! LOL!

[vvflash04]

Way cool , I have only saw one in the wild .

[ruben f.]

2cool! I saw one crossing a road last september in new mexico, while hunting pronghorns. A rare sight for me, as thats the only one I've ever seen in the wild.

[t-tung]

yeah i thought it was pretty cool to see.... i would have had time to take pics if it weren't for the truck behind me. i wonder if they would make a good pet if you got them early enough... the one she was carrying probably didnt even have its eyes open... if it did it wasnt for long... it was small

[RAYSOR]

Taken a few off our ranch in South Texas, they are really a cool animal, last time I saw one was last year hunting dove around one of our tanks when one ran right across my feet in the high grass.

[pacontender]

We have taken a few in McMullen too. I see four or five a year. They are pretty cool animals. Watched my labs tear one apart behind the house two years ago. That was the most viscious animal I have ever seen. However three against one was not in his favor. Lucky for the dogs they were not hurt badly.

[Trouthunter]

Can't believe you didn't wind up with three dead Labs. Those badgers make bears turn and run away.

TH

[srmtphillips]

Had a close encounter with one dove hunting on the Chapparal one time. My lab turned and ran away before I knew what we stumbled upon. Neither one of us wanted a piece of that thing!

[Haute Pursuit]

Yeah those guys are scary when they get bowed up. We have several of them on our lease in Junction. They are the kiss of death for a pen full of chickens. Absolute carnage...LOL

[farmdude]

while antelope hunting in western SD last fall one was approaching.( it was aBOUT 2' LONG)..I was watching some goats way off... (i'm kinda laying on my side) it kept coming my way so when it was looking at me I moved a finger..thinking that would make it detour (about 50 yrds at this time)....it kept coming and at 30yrds I sat up and it kept on coming...when it started up the small hill I was on (about 15 yrds) I grabbed my gun and moved and said get outa here to it...it finally got the hint and ambled off...oh the antelope never did come any closer (maybe they seen/heard all the stuff?)

[El Cazador]

I've seen two (in years past) at our place in Jim Hogg county. I had shots at both of 'em and passed on the oppurtunity. I've since seen full body mounts of badgers, and the next time a see one, he's going to the taxidermist...

[Levelwind]

I've seen a few, growing up in Kansas. Never saw one in Texas. Do a google before you snuff one, if you like having cool animals to look at, and maybe for your grandkids - I think they used to make a living mostly off prairie dogs and now we've killed off most of the doggies they are far less plentiful than they were. Maybe not though, I didn't look it up.

[farmdude]

I've seen a few, growing up in Kansas. Never saw one in Texas. Do a google before you snuff one, if you like having cool animals to look at, and maybe for your grandkids - I think they used to make a living mostly off prairie dogs and now we've killed off most of the doggies they are far less plentiful than they were. Maybe not though, I didn't look it up.

I think many ranchers would disagree on this

[Levelwind]

In SD maybe. When Lewis and Clark crossed the Great Plains (great american desert) it took them sever days on horseback to cross some towns. They're nowhere near endangered, but the black footed ferrett which depended entirely on PDs and needed big towns, went extinct when I was a boy. Just saying do an internet check. I have no interest in whacking a badger or doggies so don't really know for sure.

[G K Chambers]

Levelwind, you're still a young man.:)


Here's a link for you:


http://www.blackfootedferret.org/facts-history.html


Note how they were rediscovered....no telling what a ranch dog might bring up.:rotfl:


On a side note one of my favorite sights on Lubbock runs is the big Prairie Dog town you can see from the Loop at what looks like an old TI facility. Acres of the little boogers. Lord knows I made war on them in my misspent youth but it feels good to see them today.

[Hullahopper]

I also had one cross the road in front of me at the Chapparal a few years ago while quail hunting. One fierce looking critter that's for sure!

Had a close encounter with one dove hunting on the Chapparal one time. My lab turned and ran away before I knew what we stumbled upon. Neither one of us wanted a piece of that thing!

[Levelwind]

Wow! Thanks for that, George! I graduated High School in '67 in Kansas, I remember reading that they were extinct in some state literature, that was probably extinct in the state of Kansas. OH, now I remember. They were considered extinct in Ks and the state put a picture on the fish and game handout (seasons, bag limits, etc.) asking anyone who saw one to report it.

[t-tung]

http://a447.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/81/l_5a2e34c8f279766bc877ef64f7182b3e.jpg

http://a636.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/57/l_248047cf6524024859181e5c4d0761f3.jpg

here's a couple pics of the porcupine...

[Bill C]

Lezz Go...

That's really funny. Well done.