Thread: How do they retrieve badger hair?

There are many videos out there of badgers fending off bears. Obviously if a bear was ornery enough he could dispatch a badger but I think they know they would be well bitten which would probably lead to infection and their death.

badgers are probably the most fearless animal alive.. which i'm sure is why they were chosen to supply the hair for our shave brushes.. you can't get any more masculine than that.

A schoolfriend of mine, many years ago, his father owned the second biggest mink farm in England. The biggest was owned by a frozen food corporation, which had limitless supplies of fish and other assorted guts on which to feed the mink. His father had very long narrow chicken-type sheds in which the mink were kept in wire cages of a sort of chain link construction, if I remember correctly, into which their food could easily drop, and the waste could fall out. Plus being kept separately and in round wire meant that there was no damage to the precious pelts. They were slaughtered by the cages being transferred to a sizeable wooden box which was connected by a hose to the exhaust pipe of their panel van.
I suppose the Chinese badgers meet their doom in much of a similar fashion. I might point out though that it is well known that in restaurants in China, the kitchen staff have the alarming custom of maddening with sticks the caged dogs and cats into a terrified state before slaughtering them, believing that this abhorrent practice makes the meat taste sweeter.
What treats they have in store to condition the badger hair, perhaps you know.

Originally Posted by pedro083

That would be seal. Know if you really want to upset people a seal shaving brush would go down a treat

That would be badger: 1 2 3 4 5

There are also red fox, rabbit, otter, pine marten, and no doubt seal too - in fact, anything furry with a face on it.

I believe they keep spanners, conkers and bits of chalk in them.

Regards,
Neil

Originally Posted by vthomlinson

badgers are probably the most fearless animal alive.. which i'm sure is why they were chosen to supply the hair for our shave brushes.. you can't get any more masculine than that.

If that theory holds then wolverines might make good brushes too

Originally Posted by onimaru55

If that theory holds then wolverines might make good brushes too

very true.. i'd like a panther brush if possible.

Shoot... If the main criteria for a good brush is that it comes from a mean critter, my ex-wife could make a fortune selling her hair.

Originally Posted by vthomlinson

badgers are probably the most fearless animal alive.. which i'm sure is why they were chosen to supply the hair for our shave brushes.. you can't get any more masculine than that.

I grew up raccoon hunting with my grandpa, I was his ears to hear the dogs and his eyes to shoot' em out of the trees for the dogs.

I think a raccoon brush would be a close second.

I know people see them eating out of trash cans and waddling around peacefully. They aren't "ill natured" like badgers are.

But you corner one and give threat to it's life and they are absolutely amazing. Don't know how many times I saw a 30lb coon take a .22 bullet, a 20 foot fall and STILL give a 60lb dog that was bred, fed, and trained to only do two things (track, and kill) a very good run for it's money. They'd get gnawed/scratched/cut to pieces. Watched a boar coon fight off 3 inexperienced dogs 3 separate times as he made his escape across a corn field. They'd get banged up and retreat...work up a little courage and go back for another beating. Absolutely amazing. One of my friends has a carhartt jacket to thank for still having his right arm. He thought the thing was dead, picked it by it's tail and held it up to show us...what followed was hilarious profanity-filled mayhem.




A Raccoon Brush might cure impotence. I'm going to call Pfizer tomorrow.


I'm young, broke, and hot-tempered enough...so I'll be sticking with my cheap boar brush for now.

Originally Posted by Neil Miller

That would be badger: 1 2 3 4 5

There are also red fox, rabbit, otter, pine marten, and no doubt seal too - in fact, anything furry with a face on it.

I believe they keep spanners, conkers and bits of chalk in them.

Regards,
Neil

Well actually, a friend of mine claims to have a fox hair brush, i have yet to see it!

And just to put some oil on the fire: what about a skunk brush?

Originally Posted by HNSB

Dang! Those are good prices for gophers. I trapped gophers for bounties for a few years as well, but they didn't pay that good.
I used to have a dog that would sniff out the tunnel and dig it out for me to place the traps. I miss that dog.

Not unreasonable you got paid less: you had the dog do the dirty work for you!