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Badgers will squeeze through the standard stock fencing wire which has 4" X 4" holes so your springer may have found a hole he can get through. I put a layer of chicken wire over the stock fencing which stopped the badgers going through. Of course they dig underneath usually in the same place every time. If you lay a square or two of stock fencing flat on the ground all along on the outside that makes it much more difficult for them burrowing under. At least you can then see where they are getting in. A strand of barbed wire loosely wired to the bottom of the stock fencing before filling the hole in makes it more uncomfortable for them the next time. Live electric fence on the inside to greet them when they have got through all of that usually does the trick.

But enough of my main enemy. The fix for fence climbing is a single strand of live wire along the top. That's what the chicken farmers use round here. I imagine Bold Sir Raynard runs out of options when he reaches the top of that! ⚡⚡🦊⚡⚡