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Mink are nasty, kill way more then they will eat. Good you caught one, was it a male or female?I just had 11 hens killed in two nights. I caught one mink three nights later . Using one of the dead birds. then I found another dead hen sticking out of a hole on the edge of my pond. I now have three live traps set around my pond. I am wondering if wire screening will work around chicken coop. (I have a roll of that) Mine is 12' x12' totally enclosed with chicken wire. I just put a 3' welded wire fence around coop attached to the chicken wire. Getting new birds next week. I also put motion lights on each side of coop. Crossing my fingers. I have had chickens for 4 years where I am now . First attack..
I've never been a vegetarian, but I never had any urge to shoot animals until after I started keeping chickens. Having a rabid raccoon charge my mother one night didn't help matters much, either.a motivated mink will stop at almost nothing to get into a coop. they are very brazen creatures. and as much i think it’s important to keep your animals safe, in doing so sometimes you have to get rid of the problem. after going face to face with one of them, my feelings on them have changed very dramatically. i’m a vegetarian so i feel very hard for animals and wild life, but after what one did to my duck (in day light) they’re not something i feel much empathy for.
Best comment so far for advice! Have you ever or your dad ever used poison? Wondering cause they just aren’t going for my traps at all. Doesn’t help having multiple areas around that draw them in for scraps and stuff from neighbors I guess.Mink and Weasels are hard to trap also, they do not like rotten meat so any meat in a trap needs to be fresh. When my Dad would have mink attacks he would most times use a live bird for bait (in a mink proof cage of course) and set foothold traps around the caged bird covering the traps with a little fine straw or grass clippings. Allways caught the mink most times the 1st night.
Best advice so far! Have you or your dad ever used poison? Just curious cause at this point, I’m about to. They keep avoiding my traps.Mink and Weasels are hard to trap also, they do not like rotten meat so any meat in a trap needs to be fresh. When my Dad would have mink attacks he would most times use a live bird for bait (in a mink proof cage of course) and set foothold traps around the caged bird covering the traps with a little fine straw or grass clippings. Allways caught the mink most times the 1st night.
Poison doesn’t commit its self to the animal you want to kill. It gets scattered. Small animals that get killed by the poison get eaten by larger ones and it accumulates. Dead corpses get eaten by all kind of scavengers (including chickens).Best advice so far! Have you or your dad ever used poison? Just curious cause at this point, I’m about to. They keep avoiding my traps.