Despite public protests, a total of 924 badgers were killed in Gloucestershire last autumn and a further 955 in Somerset, costing taxpayers almost £8million.
The carcasses were incinerated rather than subjected to tests that could have given more insight into the way bovine TB is spread.
Four were tested, however, at the request of a landowner, according to a Freedom of Information request to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.