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  1. Minkenry
    I'm close to getting caught up with editing my videos! Just one more after this one, and you guys will be all caught up!
  2. Minkenry
    Yes I can send you a book. I've actually sent books to close to half a dozen European countries! To order my book, send an e-mail to.... thenewsportofminkenry@mail.com In that e-mail provide your mailing address, a good e-mail to use for PayPal, and your choice of full color, or black and white. The black and white copies are $35 and the full color are $50 (U.S. Dollars). Shipping to Europe is surprisingly inexpensive, with the cheapest option being less than $5! For those of you that haven't heard about my book, here's a quick little clip showing it off...
  3. Minkenry
    Sorry, this video was filmed clear back on Monday, but I was too busy to get it edited and posted until now. I have 2 more videos that have been filmed between now, and when this one was filmed. I'll get those edited as soon as I can, and post them too. Enjoy!
  4. Minkenry
    ha ha ha ha I just posted #4
  5. Minkenry
    Thanks guys! I'm glad you're enjoying my videos!
  6. Minkenry
    Look at how quickly he's coming along!
  7. Minkenry
    I don't know anything about your laws on mink ownership, but I do know a few guys who are trying it in the UK.....
  8. Minkenry
    Sorry about the last video with the barking dogs! Believe me, it bothered me 100x more than it did you guys!!! I'm happy to say I managed to get this one filmed while the neighbor's dogs were inside!
  9. Minkenry
    Yeah, I've been toying with that idea for a while. Do you know of any good how to videos on making one?
  10. Minkenry
    How do you think I feel?!?!?! I have to live next to the idiot dog! I would just LOVE to let my mink slip through the fence and make that stupid little dog his first kill!!!!
  11. Minkenry
    Here's Part 1 of my training videos for my new mink. The really intense one from the video I shared a few days ago. I am still editing Part 2 of this series of videos, and it is MUCH better than this one. I should be posting Part 2 sometime later today or tomorrow. Enjoy!
  12. Minkenry
    I wonder if you grip his head the way you grip a snakes head for milking and apply pressure between his eyes with your forefinger would he let go? Ive seen it done on ferrets that wouldnt left go. Yeah, I've tried that, but it just eggs him on. One way that worked last night is to put a harness on him while he's conveniently hanging from my glove. Once the harness was on, he was too distracted trying to take it off to hang on my glove LOL Then I just take him for a walk to wear him out, and use the leash to keep him back away from me, so he can't bite my leg.
  13. Minkenry
    I really think the breaking stick idea is a good one, and I've actually been thinking about that since the day I got him!
  14. Minkenry
    Yes, I'll be doing a step by step video on me taming this wild boy down. I've only had him for 24 hours, and he's already starting to cool of a little bit. Don't get me wrong, he still hunts me like I'm a rat, but he's started to realize I bring him food, which has softened him just a little.
  15. Minkenry
    YOU GUYS WON'T BELIEVE THIS MINK!!!! I know it's long, but watch this video till the very end!!! YOU WON'T BELIEVE how tenacious my new mink is!!!! http://youtu.be/hoEN355PhmY
  16. Minkenry
    My mink are pretty dang tame, but it's because of the work I put into them. Mink are MUCH more of a handful then ferrets, and take extra effort, and special techniques to get them to be as tame as my mink are. Here's a video showing how trust worthy my bottle raised mink are...
  17. Minkenry
    Yes I do. I have tried to work with really big male ranch mink like this one... (If you don't want to watch the entire video, skip to the end where I am feeding him. Then you can get a good idea of how big he is!) But I prefer to hunt with smaller male wild mink, like this one.... I prefer to hunt with a smaller mink, so they can fit down brown rat holes. My ideal mink is small enough to fit down a brown rat hole, but big enough to wrestle down a large muskrat or rabbit. Honestly a really small male is my favorite, but since most ranch males end up way too big, and
  18. Minkenry
    Yep, my mink are very tame. I got this mink when she was 36 days old, and bottle raised her... But of course you would expect a bottle raised mink to be hand tame.... this one was captured from the wild as an adult just a couple months before this video was filmed!
  19. Minkenry
    Here in America we don't have enough soft game for ferrets. Our rabbits don't dig warrens like European rabbits do, and so the only time they are living in a hole is when they find an abandoned hole dug by some other animal. Most of what we hunt would tear the average ferret apart. I'm sure a good aggressive ferret could handle hunting brown rats, but we also hunt much larger and more aggressive game like muskrats Not only are muskrat much bigger and more aggressive than brown rats, they also have teeth that are proportionately larger, being more similar to beaver teeth than brow
  20. Minkenry
    I've had just about every option you can think of. From bottle raised kits, to young weaned kits, to young adults, to older adults. Some from farms, some from the wild, and some from people who tried to train them but couldn't. So far I've only ran into one mink I couldn't get trained, and she was bottle raised by a lady who thought she was a ferret. By the time she realized it was a mink and not a ferret, the mink was mostly grown and far too bonded to the lady to transition to liking me. It is common for bottle raised mink to bond to only one or two people, and hate everyone else. We cal
  21. Minkenry
    Here's an old video from the first muskrat kill I ever caught on film, with the first mink I ever took hunting. Oh how things have changed since the good old days! http://youtu.be/MqMbrrXmISs
  22. Minkenry
    Thanks! The mink in this video is actually my buddy Cade's mink. He raised and trained her. My mink were left at home because one of them got sick, and I don't want to risk spreading it to Cade's mink, just in case my other mink got the same disease.
  23. Minkenry
    Nope, there are a others who do it too. In the picture above, I'm the guy on the far right in the brown sweat shirt, and they guy in the gray jacket holding the black mink is Cade. He actually owns the mink and dog in this video. He has been my apprentice for a few years now, and this is the third mink he's trained. I actually didn't do any hunting with my own mink in this video because there has been a sickness going around among my mink, and I didn't want to risk exposing Cade's mink. I have a different friend here in Utah who I also helped start in Minkenry, who works his mink with his
  24. Minkenry
    Nope, they have less body odor than a dog or cat. The only time they smell is if you scare or hurt them. This will cause them to emit a musky odor that may last anywhere from a couple minutes, to a couple hours, depending on how much musk they emitted. Oh and they do have a bit of a musky odor to them as small kits, but they grow out of that by around 7 weeks old.
  25. Minkenry
    Here's a video of our latest rat hunt with my buddy's dog and mink. Here's a picture of the end of the hunt
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