Badger hair?

[Openthisdoor]

I’ve recently moved close to some woods and noticed the other day whilst walking through what I am presuming is badger hair? It says online that they do moult but I have never seen this before - of course it could be just that I’ve not been that close.

Anybody with any knowledge who can confirm this for me - I’ve attached pics.

I've seen badger hair caught on fence but it doesn't look like that which is in your pictures.

Did you touch it, can you tell us anything about the texture?

Badger do sometimes fight one another quite viciously and I've seen fur fly all over the place when cats get into a serious fight, so maybe it's something like that.

Wool from sheep , might have been carried there by foxes etc if none nearby

Thanks all for the responses.

It looks very like badger hair but what confused me was how much and the way it seems to have shed. I asked because I heard what sounded like very distressed screeching coming from these woods the day before, enough that even my cats ran in the house. It wasn’t a noise that I am familiar with, although it’s only now living so close to wildlife that I realise what a racket they all make! 😄 crows, squirrels and magpies being the worst!

I looked online and badgers apparently don’t have any predictors but I wonder if @thatsawhopperthatlemon is right and it was a fight and would explain the awful noises that I heard.

Thanks again!

Badger hair us used in paintbrushes and shaving brushes. It is very straight and smooth, not woolly.

Talking of badgers, I was driving slowly down the lane the other day and a young badger slowly crossed the road in front of me. It was walking alongside a cat. I have never seen that before. They looked as if they were friends!

Oh - maybe not badger hair then.. now you say it, it seems obvious. This is definitely woolly, but I am now even more unsure as to what it could be.

That’s so sweet the cat and the badger - how lucky to see that!

I guess I was presuming badger hair because of the colour and markings. I have seen deer there too - does deer hair have that fluffy, woolly texture?

The photo won’t load for me. I often hand strip one of my dogs or brush them when I’m out in the wild as the hair/fur is used by birds for their nests.

This is almost like it’s been shaved! Perhaps someone took their clippers and gave the dog a quick groom 😄

I have taken clippers out with me on occasion!

😄

Be careful if your dogs have been given a systemic treatment for parasites, apparently their fur can be toxic to fledglings from nest material.