Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Liz <liz@allslash.org>]

At 08:24 PM 9/27/2008, you wrote:
> Trying to determine what made this. At first I thought a Badger, the initial
> hole looks right. The claw marks in picture 3 look about right. But the
> "ditch" is what is confusing. If it is a badger I need to take special
> precautions due to our chicken.

I wonder whether the apparent ditch is actually a couple of abandoned 
initial attempts to dig the hole. Perhaps the soil didn't feel quite 
right so the badger started over again a few feet farther on? Just a 
guess, but it looks to me as though that might have been the case.

Liz in SW VA
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