Thanks for your input on my unusual badgers. I'm still not convinced they're erythristic - unless it could be shown that erythristic badgers commence life with normal colouration and change as they become adult, and 'my' badgers therefore are mid-change.
Looking at your photos (which by the way are superb! - thanks for sharing) the guard hairs on your erythristic badger seem to be of normal length - not so on my animals. I'm pretty much convinced my badgers are of normal colour - it's the length of their hair that is abnormal and gives the appearance of colour mutation. Maybe a moult issue, I'm not sure.
Again, I really loved your photos,

Zek.

It's true that if the guard hairs are much shorter than you would expect there is likely to be another problem - a moulting problem sounds like it makes sense but it's difficult to tell. I would love to know the answer though.

I see quite a lot of badgers during night shifts in Cornwall, even walking down the main street into St Ives! I once saw one get hit by a car. It got up, shook itself off and went on its way. The car lost its front bumber!!

That's amazing! How fast was the car going? I hope it was alright and recovered from the shock.

I've had a couple memorable Badger encounters, including nearly running over a Blonde Badger by Rockfield studios. But the one i keep recalling, is when my son wanted to see Owls.

I took him out to a ploughed field in Monmouth, at night to see Little owls. Lamped one field and there looked to be one in top corner, so we walked up to take a look. When we half way up field, we heard small pating sounds from behind. We turned around and put on lamp and there was a Badger. It stopped and stared for a while, i was expecting it to run off but it soon carried on, but in our direction. We had to step out of its way, and we could have literally stroked the animal has it passed. This was also my sons first Badger.


Chris.

What, the car driver or the Badger!!

The only bagers I see are, unfortunately, road kill