Innocent Badger

UPDATE: **Since first publishing this map the Countryside Alliance have run a campaign to take down a facebook post with a link to the google map, a simple way round this is to share the url for this webpage rather than for the map (which has now been viewed over 14,000 times) We’ve gone from a start of a couple of dozen game farms to now well over 150.
Huge thank you to the now ex industry insider for quite a long list, also thanks to the members of the public and animal rights activists who tipped us off with what they knew, also a special thank you to the researchers who spend hours sifting through websites and companies house searching for these farms.**

On April 2nd this article came out: The English shooting estates that rear 20 million pheasants a year

With two game farms having birds liberated in the last few weeks, there was clearly a need for a map to be made so that people could easily find farms in there nearby area or further afield.

The markers coloured in red have battery cages, the yellow have large breeding pens, the blue are buying chicks in and rearing them,  the green markers are for companies involved in equipment supply to the game farm industry. We suggest you download the KMZ file here, then open up google earth and open it for best view, google earth will also tell you the date the sattelite image was taken.

There are a number of different types of pen/cage used by the pheasant farms.

Firstly we will start with the breeding birds, these are kept in either battery cages where one male and several females are kept together and someone then collects the eggs from the cages. The breeding birds are kept on the farm over the winter, many farms DO NOT have any breeding stock, they buy in day old chicks and rear them.

A good example of the battery cages can be seen at Bettws Hall, one of the countries largest producers of game birds, the rows of white lines are the cages:

Farms that don’t use battery cages use “breeding pens” these are often simply fence panels on the sides with a nylon net over the top as you can see from the Chilmark sattelite image:

If you then look at the liberation of the birds from chilmark you can see that the lower fence panels have been removed/flattened and the net pulled back or cut back to allow a large gap for the pheasants to fly away.

So that’s the breeding birds, their eggs, will then either be shipped direct to a farm or hatched on site and then shipped. The trade in day old chicks is international as we saw when we visited Iain Bothams shoot, he had imported the birds from France.

These day old chicks will go into rearing sheds and for the first few weeks will have heat lamps on and no access to the outside, after a while they will get access to the outside usually via a door that goes onto a pen. You can see the sattelite image of Chargot:

This video of Chargot from the ground gives you some idea:

Typically the day old chicks will start being stocked from mid-May onwards into the rearing pens, they will also typically have “bits” fitted to stop them from fully closing their mouths so that they can’t do damage to each other in their overcrowded pens, they will have no chance of survival if released at a very early age, once they can fly and are going into the pens they will have a greater chance.

From mid to late summer they will be introduced into the large release pens that you may well have seen on shooting estates, they are kept in there until a few weeks before the season, then flushed to guns where many will be shot and some will survive.

To sum up, the vast majority of game farms are only rearing chicks that they have bought in, so many of the markers on this map will currently have no stock, If you zoom in, the type of pens should tell you wether or not they are breeding. BUT many farms move their pens around each year to avoid disease, so it is possible the sattelite photos were taken when the pens were in another location or some were no longer erected for that time of year, the only way to know for sure is to go to the farm and have a look round, viewing from a distance using binoculars or a drone might well be useful.

This Farmers Weekly article is well worth a read to understand how the industry operates.

If you’d like to read more about the recent liberations, Unoffensive Animal have written this piece.

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If you haven’t heard about the recent case where four hunters attacked saboteurs, you can read about it in the daily mail and watch the video and find out more directly from the sabs here.

So here we are again, with ample video evidence of criminality against well known criminals (3 of the 4 have a string of offences for violence and horse race rigging) getting away with it.

We believe it must be the case that the police, the CPS, magistrates and crown courts do not want to punish people involved in incidents with hunting with hounds. Our only conclusion is that they must want people who are anti hunt to take justice into their own hands, as there are no other options left to us.

Perhaps over time, with enough justice dished out to these vile people, they will start to plead guilty at the first opportunity when facing courts, in the hope that our anger will diminish and they might be left alone.

If you know any other details about the people involved please do email: stopthebadgercull@gmail.com

The details known at this time, use “141” before dialling to withhold your number:

Philip Makin,
18 Church Street, Thirsk, North Yorkshire, YO7 3PA
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/phillip.makin.1
twitter: https://twitter.com/phil_makin_

Richard Tierney,
DWCF Woodlands Farm, Snainton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO13 9BA
landline: 01723 859327
facebook: https://www.facebook.com/richard.tierney88

Mr R H Robertson Tierney,
DWCF Woodlands Farm, Snainton, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, YO13 9BA
landline: 01723 859327
mobile: 07967 891 365

Roger Marley
Church Farm, Ratten Row, Langtoft, Driffield, YO25 3TL

His wife Ruth was part of their earlier criminal conspiracy to rig races:
Ruth’s twitter: https://twitter.com/RuthMarley1

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Based in Osmington near Weymouth Craigs Farm Dairy boast to be one of the few remaining local free range dairies. Established for over 30 years and supplying milk, butter and ice cream to local homes and many businesses. Their products can be found in many shops for miles around so those who live locally or visit will have seen their products for sale. The farm, East Farm, in Osmington is not their only farm and there is another in Church Knowle called Barnston Farm with Craigs Farm Dairy signage on clear display.

Sadly their free range effect does not extend to the badgers living on their land because they have signed up to the badger cull ! Trap’s have been found on the farm in Osmington and a well decomposed badger was found just outside a sett, the farmers have managed to spend time baiting and setting traps but not to remove the body of a badger that has been there for quite some time. These trap’s were set to kill in a field full of grazing cows and not far from a well used public footpath with some of the most stunning views in Dorset, a dirty little secret nestled on the farm hidden from all those who come to enjoy the local views and walks. Traps were also found on land by Barnston Farm in Church Knowle and these were also set to kill.

In addition to the produce they supply Craigs Farm Dairy have a farm shop and tea room at East Farm in Osmington.

They have a Facebook page which makes for an interesting read, especially a post from April 2017 where they have used a quote which includes the words “ Good farmers conserve wildlife “ if this is the case then the farmers at Craigs Farm Dairy are very bad farmers …. they are certainly not conserving one of the UK’s most iconic species !! Please let them know your thoughts on them being part of the barbaric badger cull either by phone 01305 834 591 or via facebook or website. Buying their products from your local shops, visiting their farm shop or cafe or using businesses that use their products means you are supporting the badger cull !

Their facebook page can be found here …… Caigsfarmdairy

Their website can be found here … http://www.craigsfarmdairy.co.uk

During the Krebs trials of the late 90’s early 00’s the badger population was usually around 10-12 badgers perKm2. This would mean even without the fabled “badger population explosion” that the pro cull farmers always talk about, that if you wanted to kill 70% of the badger population, you’d need to kill at least 7 badgers in every Km2 of any new cull zone.

When the culls started in 2013, Gloucestershire was trying to kill at least 9.32 badgers perKm2, In Somerset it was 8.1 badger perKm2 had they managed to achieve that and carried on killing at that rate, the amount of badgers based at the lower Somerset population rate, just in new zones this year would be:
5,627 km2 x 8.1 badgers perKm2 =
45,578 badgers minimum to be killed IN JUST THE TEN NEW AREAS. Many tens of thousands more would be added to that for the other ongoing 21 cull zones.

The actual number they are trying to kill this year in the ten new areas is 15,182.

This video tries to explain what happened over the years and shows how year on year as the minimum targets have been widely missed, the following years the targets have been lowered to try and show the culls as “effective”.

You can find all the government data for the culls on this link.

The only thing thats been effective, is our sabotage methods, cullers are scared to go out and cage trappers don’t dare put cages on top of setts as they are too easy for us to find.

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Last night at 10pm we exposed Wodetone Vineyard as being part of the badger cull, today they responded to emails saying that they were no longer involved in the cull.

This is incredible news and proves beyond doubt that the exposing of people involved in the cull, can and does save lives.If you would like to support us, all of our patrons recieve a weekly digest on fridays, you can support us for just $1 a month (about 75p, the patreon site is based in America, we are based in the UK) https://www.patreon.com/stopthecull

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018, 14:14 Mary Riddle, <info@vineyardbandb.co.uk> wrote:

 

As you probably realise we have received a lot of email about our involvement in the badger cull, and we would like to reply to them all with the following.

We were approached last year by local farmers, who told us their cows and livelihoods were suffering due to TB. We have no cows ourselves so it was of no benefit for us to join; however we have known these farmers for many years and trusted their judgment. Of course ignorance is not an excuse and we allowed our land to be included as long as we didn’t have to participate in any way. We attended no meetings and have not been involved in any of the process.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing and we now realise this was a mistake. You are correct that we even promoted badgers on our website and that is an oversight that will be corrected. We have spoken to the relevant people and the cull on our land has been stopped and will not happen again in the future either.

yours

4,799 people are licenced to cage trap and kill badgers.

2,491 people are licenced to free shoot badgers using high powered rifles.
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Tucked away in the quaint little village of Colerne is a Mr. Moorhen, he sells peanuts to badger cull farmers by the tonne (1000kg).

The badger culls could fail with enough disruption in any part of the supply chain, whether thats cages or peanuts or the bullets.

Mr. Moorhen, 3 Martins Croft, Colerne, Chippenham Wiltshire SN14 8DS.
Tel: 01225 745703.
Mobile: 07795 373433
Email: dairyconsultancy@aol.com
Website: dairyconsultancyservices.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neil.moorhen.73
Twitter: @DairyConsultant

We paid him a visit, to check out what sort of house you can buy with the blood of thousands of dead badgers. Only a small garden, which seemed strange considering the house is worth over £400k.

Perhaps no one should be surprised that finding his address was simplicity itself, a quick check of the Old Mill client list and there he is.

This is an old image from 2010, when officers escorted badger killers onto land in Wales so they could kill. They had to go in mob handed due to local protests, in fact there was so many people protesting that the cull never got under way in that area properly and had to be abandoned.

Fast forward 8 years to today and has anything changed? it seems not, although the police often state that they are in the zones to facilitate lawful protest, the reality is often very different.

This year police are stretched much further, as government cuts have bitten deeper into their budget, so it does seem odd that the diminished police forces think they can bully us, but thats exactly what two forces have tried to do over the weekend.

On Friday night in Wiltshire, two people sat in a car were arrested, the police at no point in time suggested that they had done anything wrong, they were arrested for “intending” to steal and commit criminal damage. The evidence? a sticker found in the car saying “sab the cull”.

In the hours before the arrest, 4 police cars were seen and gangs of officers spotted patrolling constantly around a single farm, we aren’t sure if there is a connection, but the farm is a client of “Old Mill” the acountants whose client list was recently leaked.

The police held them overnight and released them the next day, in the process of interview it became obvious that there was not one piece of evidence to suggest these two people had done anything unlawful at all. That hasn’t stopped the police from taking thermal imaging equipment, mobile phones and radios and keeping hold of it, they have refused to give it back and told those arrested it may take 6 weeks (after the cull has finished)

One of the people arrested was taking medication, the police refused access to their meds for nearly two hours. Neither of them were given food for the 12 hours they were in either.

Please do pop over to Wilts police facebook page and tell them your thoughts.

Meanwhile over in Devon, the police there have had a similar idea of trying to stop activists, by issuing a “section 35” notice, effectively stopping a specific group of people from going into an area. That area is a farm, where we can expect shooters to be out in force tonight killing as many badgers as they like undisturbed.

That farm is also a client of Old Mill, a coincidence? we don’t know.

What we do know is that a Chief Inspector signed off on this section 35 notice and this particular CI is well known to us for being very much on side with the hunting fraternity.

You can find Devon and Cornwall Police on facebook here.

We will not be bullied by the police, nor will we stand idly by and allow people to kill badgers with the police protecting them. If police want to crack down on us, they need to have a long hard think about what the consequences will be.