Dead Creature I Found In A Tree Today :(

[Highland Forestry]

I think you'll find that's a fox, and most likley put there by the keeper.

 

We used to hang all our foxes in trees when I was keepering in Suffolk..

 

Crows etc will come land on them to feed as they rot and present themselfs for a shot whilst on the rounds.

 

The fox was probably shot last harvest time bolting from the combine and hung in the nearest tree or snared on the fenceline.

 

 

 

Simplesaw - yours is deffinatley a badger mate.

Edited December 15, 2009 by Highland Forestry
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[farmer_ben]

I think you'll find that's a fox, and most likley put there by the keeper.

 

We used to hang all our foxes in trees when I was keepering in Suffolk..

 

Crows etc will come land on them to feed as they rot and present themselfs for a shot whilst on the rounds.

 

The fox was probably shot last harvest time bolting from the combine and hung in the nearest tree or snared on the fenceline.

 

 

 

Simplesaw - yours is deffinatley a badger mate.

 

Boss told me today that it was a fox someone shot and hung up 2/3 yrs ago. and on closer inspection today i could still so some ginger hairs!!

 

Highland Forester, where in Suffolk did u keep??? may of been one of yours?!

[owain]

Its definitely a badger skeleton.

 

Most likely the badger has bin shot by someone and thrown in the hedge out of sight.

[farmer_ben]

Pretty sure its a Fox. Boss man remembers a gamekeeper hanging one there. And the nose is longer then any pics of badgers skull i've found on net and more teeth. Don't mind being proved wrong tho

[Highland Forestry]

Ben - we used to go lamping and shooting foxes all over the place mate... mostly not far from bury st edmunds but also out toward lavenham and also round ixworth thorpe and a bit more over by stanton.

Could habe been one of ours but I doubt it... moved to scotland 4 yrs ago now.

 

Where abouts in suffolk are you?? I grew up in Fakenham Magna near Honington and then lived in Cockfield before heading north.

[farmer_ben]

Ben - we used to go lamping and shooting foxes all over the place mate... mostly not far from bury st edmunds but also out toward lavenham and also round ixworth thorpe and a bit more over by stanton.

Could habe been one of ours but I doubt it... moved to scotland 4 yrs ago now.

 

Where abouts in suffolk are you?? I grew up in Fakenham Magna near Honington and then lived in Cockfield before heading north.

 

Small world bud, I use to live in a farm cottage at Honnington. Worked for Troston Farms then.

 

Now live near Sudbury. Farm is out near Wickhambrook where I found the "fox". Did my chainsaw cert last week at Cockfield Hall. You had enough of Suffolk then?!

[Highland Forestry]

Small world bud, I use to live in a farm cottage at Honnington. Worked for Troston Farms then.

 

Now live near Sudbury. Farm is out near Wickhambrook where I found the "fox". Did my chainsaw cert last week at Cockfield Hall. You had enough of Suffolk then?!

 

 

 

Ahhh, I know troston farms very well indeed...

 

Small world for sure - alot of my family are still about in Honington.. did you ever go down to the pub much??

 

Cockfield hall..... I take it you met DH then... very nicegentleman, good friend of my grandparents.

 

It was never that I had enough of suffolk.. I just fancied a bit of an adventure and to see some nice sights in the highlands... came up to do a 25wk contract and never quite made it home..

[farmer_ben]

Ahhh, I know troston farms very well indeed...

 

Small world for sure - alot of my family are still about in Honington.. did you ever go down to the pub much??

 

Cockfield hall..... I take it you met DH then... very nicegentleman, good friend of my grandparents.

 

It was never that I had enough of suffolk.. I just fancied a bit of an adventure and to see some nice sights in the highlands... came up to do a 25wk contract and never quite made it home..

 

Only went in Pub in Honington once, ventured into the one in Troston bit more for food etc as 30sec min walk from farm yard!!

 

I met DH few weeks ago at Stanningfield where I was carting his sugar beet.

 

Where abouts are you North of the BOarder?

[owain]

Teeth seem too large to be a fox and the skull has a too broad shape. Another pointer may be that if it was thrown in the hedge someone wanted it out of sight whenever we shoot a fox we tend to leave it rather than handling it, orrible things in my opinion. but you wouldnt want joe bloggs finding shot badgers on your land could land someone in hot water.

[Highland Forestry]

Teeth seem too large to be a fox and the skull has a too broad shape. Another pointer may be that if it was thrown in the hedge someone wanted it out of sight whenever we shoot a fox we tend to leave it rather than handling it, orrible things in my opinion. but you wouldnt want joe bloggs finding shot badgers on your land could land someone in hot water.

 

 

lol!

 

 

It's a fox mate... if it's not a fox then it's a dog with ginger hair!!

Either way... look at the teeth.. they are canine not mustelid.