Hi Star D
Welcome to the Forum, but I’m sorry to hear you have badgers there. There is no easy way to say it, but the hedgehogs will be at risk from the badgers. It is not normal for hedgehogs to eat side by side with badgers and it indicates that the hogs are not behaving as normal wild hedgehogs would and avoiding the badgers – which are hedgehogs’ main natural predator. It’s possible that because the hogs have been in care that they have somehow lost their natural instincts in that respect.
The fact that the hogs and badgers have, so far, been eating side by side is not any consolation. I have heard before of badgers and hedgehogs who were accustomed to being fed side by side, but still one day a badger turned on a hog and killed it, despite there still being food available to the badger.
If I were you I would try to limit the chances of interaction between them. Sorry, I’m sure this isn’t what you wanted to hear.
