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  1. Minkenry
    It's just a CO2 bb gun.
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    No, not quite. Mink and ferrets are really quite different. What a ferret is good at, a mink isn't very good for. Some things a ferret can't do, a mink can do with ease. It seems to me the two animals have more differences than similarities. I do hunt some brown rats and rabbits, the traditional quarry of ferreters, but I also hunt animals that ferrets would struggle to be very good at hunting. Like the muskrat in this video. From what I've been told by ferret guys who have tried, ferreting for muskrats is not something that ends well for the ferret. I did once here of a big aggressive hob
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    It depends on the situation, and what we are hunting. If the mink has something under control, I don't want the dog interfering. Yes in a way I would say the dog is working for the mink. But she does get to catch plenty of stuff too, both when hunting with the mink, and on her own. The dog has caught plenty of muskrats, brown rats, and just a few weeks ago she got her first rabbit (she's only 9 months old, so we havn't done much with rabbits yet). Some of the game she caught was flushed by the mink, some of it she found and caught without the mink's help whatsoever. Had that muskrat been out w
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    The mink wasn't in the hole very long, maybe 10-15 minutes tops, but probably less than that. When she kept bringing me back pieces of rabbit I put her away, as I knew there was something wrong. I didn't even start digging until the mink was put away. It took me over an hour to dig to it, as we don't exactly have soft luscious soil out here in the desert ha ha ha. But the time the mink was down there was not more than a few minutes.
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    Sorry for those who haven't seen this post. I removed it, as I had my questions answered, and didn't need to leave these pictures on here any longer. Thanks to all who replied!
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    Thank you for your kind words
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    Thanks! I want to get some footage of the lurcher in action too! She's far from just a casual observer, and is pretty good at catching muskrats, even when they are swimming under water!
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    Yeah, I've taught the lurcher to stand back and let the mink do its job unless I say otherwise. Rushing in while the mink is on a kill is not beneficial, and can potentially cause problems. It's not a good idea to distract a mink while it is wrestling with biting prey. Something like a rabbit or goose would be fine, as the mink can't be bitten by them. But if you distract a mink on a squirrel or muskrat, you greatly increase the chance of an accident that otherwise would have never happened. Mink are VERY GOOD at taking down biting prey on their own, and I've found that trying to "help" is oft
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    So is the dog! They really are a great team! With just the mink I would have had quite a difficult time finding a single muskrat hiding in that marsh. But with the lurcher there to help, we could quickly sweep through the marsh, and find the one muskrat hiding in that big area, then release the mink right in the area where the muskrat or brown rat is hiding. Without the mink, the dog could only catch rats or muskrats that were out side of their holes. But with the team working together we can catch a lot more game, and in a lot more difficult circumstances. And don't think the dog doesn't catc
  10. Minkenry
    I'm not understanding your question. What you mean by "stuck in minkenry".
  11. Minkenry
    Here's a video of my pointer lurcher Onsa using her nose to locate a hidden muskrat, and then my mink Fang capturing that muskrat..... https://youtu.be/88shQvwJPvk Here are a few stills from the video......
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    Here's a video of my pointer lurcher Onsa using her nose to locate a hidden muskrat, and then my mink Fang capturing that muskrat..... https://youtu.be/88shQvwJPvk Here are a few stills from the video......
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    Yeah, I had a friend who was trying and trying to trap a female mink, but all he could catch was males. Then he took out his little Patterdale to do some nutria hunting, and his terrier caught and killed a female mink instead!!! A FEMALE mink!!! He'd caught something like half a dozen males over about a month of trapping, but couldn't trap one female...... then his dog killed one. Talk about bad luck!
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    Thanks!
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    Have you seen this video yet? Based on your comment you might of, but if not it's a pretty cool video where one of my mink catches and kills a brown rat in an underwater chase...... https://youtu.be/pzdK8v-UHd4 As far as bolting rabbits goes, a mink will sure bolt rabbits, but they are also very efficient at catching rabbits, so they would waist a lot of time killing rabbits instead of bolting them into your nets. So unless you want an animal that is better at catching and killing the rabbits than it is bolting them, you would be better off sticking to using ferrets instead.
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    i know from reading on here and other sites , that a wild polecat have been hard to handle etc even from young, that will use there teeth , yet he had minks from young and seems to do well with with working/handling from watching is vids . maybe the mink temp bit more docile temp , regards handling than what a wild polecat is, even bred down ferrets can be bit nippy at times lol. ive used ferrets on rats before great bit of sport, a mink be great for rats , be like using a big hammer I haven't even seen a wild polecat in real life, let alone worked with one, b
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    Oh, I'm sure the goose could physically fly away with a mink, the problem is the mink quickly climbs up the goose's body and neck, and then bites them on the back of the head or throat area. Just like a little 150 lbs man can control a 1000 lbs horse with a halter tied to the horse's head, or throw an 800 lbs steer by twisting it's nose around (a cowboy sport called "bull dogging" or "steer wrestling"), the mink can control the big goose by hanging onto its head/throat area. I would assume the goose could fly away with the mink if it only hung onto the goose's leg. How do ya get a mink into
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    Thanks! :-)
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    Oh, I'm sure the goose could physically fly away with a mink, the problem is the mink quickly climbs up the goose's body and neck, and then bites them on the back of the head or throat area. Just like a little 150 lbs man can control a 1000 lbs horse with a halter tied to the horse's head, or throw an 800 lbs steer by twisting it's nose around (a cowboy sport called "bull dogging" or "steer wrestling"), the mink can control the big goose by hanging onto its head/throat area. I would assume the goose could fly away with the mink if it only hung onto the goose's leg.
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    Yes, I hunt lots of different stuff. Along with brown rats, we also hunt squirrels, rabbits, kangaroo rats, muskrats, and chipmunks. On special occasions the mink might catch other interesting things like birds or snakes, and I have friends who like to fish with their mink. I myself don't like my mink to catch fish anymore, because I have learned that mink who learn to fish can sometimes get distracted chasing fish while muskrat hunting, so I avoid letting my mink catch fish. Here are some videos of my mink catching various other animals that we like to hunt...... Muskrats- https://yout
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    Yes, the box is both to carry the mink, as well as give the mink a place to hide her prey. Whenever she catches something, she is supposed to put it in her box, and when she does I reward her with ground meat.
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    Here's a video I filmed yesterday..... My little lurcher is quite the useful and very versatile dog!
  23. Minkenry
    Here's a video I filmed yesterday..... My little lurcher is quite the useful and very versatile dog! https://youtu.be/VCy5TDI5fzQ
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    Sure, starting somewhere is one thing, but you've had feral cats causing damage for A LONG TIME before mink ever got there and no real effort has ever been made.....
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    I agree 100% but my main problem with it is the pure hypocrisy on the topic of invasive species in general. One invasive species is attacked incessantly and given an all out scapegoat status where it is blamed for everything it is guilty of, plus every other thing people can possibly dream up, regardless of how ridiculous. Then on the other hand another invasive species that is just as, if not far more destructive, is not even given the slightest consideration for pest control. The feral cat has caused more extinctions and devastated more populations of wildlife than almost any other invasive
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