Compulsive burrowers, over time, a badger settlement becomes a series of small quarries. The sleeping nests in which badgers stay during daytime are lined with hay. Primarily nocturnal during summer, they may use a different sleeping den each day. During winter when they become diurnal, badgers prefer to stay close to one den. If cornered, badgers defend themselves vigorously and effectively.
Badgers are solitary all year until mating season in late summer or early fall.
Implantation of fertilized eggs is delayed until winter. From two to five in a litter are born in a nest of dry grass during spring and early summer. Young remain in the burrow 5 to 6 weeks, leaving at the end of summer to fend for themselves. The males takes no part in raising the young. No, not at the present.