ROCKIT
New Bee
- Joined
- Sep 17, 2010
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- 51
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- Location
- Goosnargh/Preston
- Hive Type
- National
- Number of Hives
- 1
In the last two/three weeks I have picked up a couple of Hedgehogs that were suffering.
The first one had a lot of ticks and lumps on its nose (maybe ticks) and was struggling to breathe. Now I know that they can suffer from respiratory problems but I put the first one down just to ill health or old age
.
Today I picked up another one that was wandering down our main road in the bright sunshine. It was struggling walking, looked quite healthy apart from a bubbly nose and a weasey chest.
Took it home and warmed it a tad, but ended up taking it to a Hedghog rescue for antibiotics and some love and attention.
The upshot of this was that the first thing the lady at the centre said was that it was poisened with a chemical of some sort. She could smell it!
Considering that this second one came out of a true meadow that hasn't had anything added for 20 years and doesn't get cut till everything has stopped growing, I found it quite odd.
Now the only field around here that has had any chemical spray that I know of was a field about 1/2 mile away that has had a total ground cover kill spray on it about 4/5 weeks ago, yesterday it was ploughed over.
Has anyone any idea if this could be the likely culprit and just what it would be that might have been sprayed on the field?
The first one had a lot of ticks and lumps on its nose (maybe ticks) and was struggling to breathe. Now I know that they can suffer from respiratory problems but I put the first one down just to ill health or old age
.
Today I picked up another one that was wandering down our main road in the bright sunshine. It was struggling walking, looked quite healthy apart from a bubbly nose and a weasey chest.
Took it home and warmed it a tad, but ended up taking it to a Hedghog rescue for antibiotics and some love and attention.
The upshot of this was that the first thing the lady at the centre said was that it was poisened with a chemical of some sort. She could smell it!
Considering that this second one came out of a true meadow that hasn't had anything added for 20 years and doesn't get cut till everything has stopped growing, I found it quite odd.
Now the only field around here that has had any chemical spray that I know of was a field about 1/2 mile away that has had a total ground cover kill spray on it about 4/5 weeks ago, yesterday it was ploughed over.
Has anyone any idea if this could be the likely culprit and just what it would be that might have been sprayed on the field?