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Is this Badger hair?

divebuddy

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Found this in the woods. Either it's a badger hairdresser's place or they've had a fight.
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Looks too fine to me. Badgers tend to have fairly course hair if i'm not mistaken.
 
I’d guess if it’s somewhere with public access it’s where someone’s brushed their dog. We get a lot of it on the footpaths and bridleways around us
 
I have to disagree with you both. It's about 30 metres from a big set and it's actually quite course. The picture maybe doesn't show it clearly. There is brown, black and white/grey hairs and our local badgers seem to be fairly brown. There is one which runs up our close quite regularly.
 
Hard to tell out of context, I normally find badger hair trapped in the barbs of barbed wire fencing or where they've squeezed under lamb fencing. I haven't ever seen clumps of badger hair out in the open like that but I have been told that mothers use it to line the set when they're due to give birth. Could it be a kill?
 
I don't think so, we have a lot of willow and dandelion seeds at the moment and I know just what you mean Bill and Joe but that wouldn't account for those long multi tonal grey hairs in the bottom photo.
I'm sure it's animal but beyond that I don't know.
 
I don't think so, we have a lot of willow and dandelion seeds at the moment and I know just what you mean Bill and Joe but that wouldn't account for those long multi tonal grey hairs in the bottom photo.
I'm sure it's animal but beyond that I don't know.
Possibly but either way it doesn't look like badger hair
 
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