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  1. Minkenry
    Not really on trainability. Their is a temperament difference though. The males are more confident, and often more calm. The females are more high stung, and often more nervous. This is a generality of course, as mink are great at breaking the norm. You can find calm and confident females, and hyper nervous males.
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    She is captive bred, and was pulled at 36 days old and from there raised on a bottle.
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    Yes the book is going to be available to buy as soon as it is done being edited :-) I'll let you guys know when it is available
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    I've been too busy writing my book for the last few months, and so I haven't had time to make any new videos. Now that I have pretty much finished with my book, I have a little extra time. Here's a video from last weekend of my mink hunting both brown and muskrats. I don't like to take muskrat when their fur isn't prime, but in this video we are being paid to do some pest removal in a city park.
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    Here's a fun little video of me playing with my mink....
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    And on a lighter note, here's me playing with my mink...... Yes I know we're both acting like little kids. Laugh it up boys
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    They liked it and found it very interesting. They love watching my videos because it shows them how a mink moves in nature.
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    Depends on the mink. Some mink are afraid of cats and see them as a possible predator. Others see them as prey and attack without hesitation. It doesn't seem to matter the size of the mink. I've had big aggressive 2,100 gram mink run from cats, and little 550 gram mink attack them just like they would a muskrat or rabbit. Whether they attack or run from a cat seems to have more to do with the individual mink's temperament than their size. The first time I saw a mink attack a cat it was a little 730 gram doe mink, and I was quite concerned for her safety. She killed the cat without any mis
  9. Minkenry
    There was something weird going on with You Tube and someone told me the link isn't working. So here is the video again...
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    Sorry, I don't know what's up with You Tube. Here it is again...
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    Don't be so quick to judge my friend. Watch the video again, and you'll notice a couple blips in the film where I edited a couple parts out. I took care of the rabbit during one of those blips. As far as my mink not being trained, just watch some more of my videos before you jump to so many conclusions.
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    Last weekend I decided to mix things up, and do a little minkenry and falconry in the same day. It's been a long time since I've flown birds, and it was a blast! Friday we started out watching several merlins fly on flocks of starlings near some mink farms in the river bottoms, then moved on to hunting rabbits out in the desert. We didn't have any luck catching rabbits with the goshawk, because the weather was just too warm, making the hawk lazy for the weight she was at. So we hooded the hawk, and pulled out my mink, and she nailed a rabbit the second hole she went down! She rode the rabbit o
  13. Minkenry
    Last weekend I decided to mix things up, and do a little minkenry and falconry in the same day. It's been a long time since I've flown birds, and it was a blast! Friday we started out watching several merlins fly on flocks of starlings near some mink farms in the river bottoms, then moved on to hunting rabbits out in the desert. We didn't have any luck catching rabbits with the goshawk, because the weather was just too warm, making the hawk lazy for the weight she was at. So we hooded the hawk, and pulled out my mink, and she nailed a rabbit the second hole she went down! She rode the rabbit o
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    Thanks. :-)
  15. Minkenry
    Here is a really cool BBC documentary on a lady raising a South American River Otter in preparation for its release. It is super interesting to watch. This video has a bunch of sections, and here is section one. You should be able to find each section and watch the whole thing piece by piece...
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    Reading about otters being used to capture fish is what made me originally want to try it with a mink. It was this book that introduced me to the idea of catching fish with an otter.... http://www.amazon.com/Sporting-Chance-Unusual-Methods-Hunting/dp/B00005WXSW In the book it also describes the author's failed attempt at ferreting muskrat. His ferrets were quite the accomplished little ratters, but they met their match when he tried them on muskrats. He almost lost his poor ferret when the muskrat split its head open with its big beaver like teeth. This also made me want to try hun
  17. Minkenry
    Not all mink kill ferrets. I know several people who have mink that get along with ferrets, one in particular sleeps with them. I also know people who have lost ferrets to their pet mink. It just depends on the mink. Some mink seek them out to kill them, some completely ignore them, and some play with the ferrets way too rough, but don't really intend to do the damage they do to the much more fragile ferret. It just depends on the mink. Me personally, I don't mess with it. If I still had any of my ferrets, I wouldn't let them anywhere near my mink. In my opinion it's like trying to get a rat a
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    Nope, sorry. They are Jaguar mink Here's a bail of jaguar mink pelts..... http://www.glacierwear.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/g/r/gray_and_white_jaguar_mink_pelt.jpg And here's someone's pet jaguar mink swimming (just to prove it's a mink)
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    Not even close. Weasels and stoats have a much lighter build than a mink. They have smaller heads, and longer necks and bodies. The mink are stockier built, just like the one in the picture. Here's a couple pictures for comparison... Here's the profile of a mink And here's the profile of a stoat Here's a mink standing on it's hind legs, and here's a stoat doing the same. notice the longer neck and smaller head
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    LOL they aren't ferrets. They are mink! These are a color mutation called "Jaguar". Look at their feet. They are round with short claws. And look at their faces, they don't have the pointy nose of a ferret. Also look at how fine and soft their fur is, instead of all spiky and coarse like a ferrets. The animal in the middle picture kind of under the black and white mink is a ferret. The rest are all Jaguar mink.
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    I'm sorry, were you one of the little boys who got picked on at school? The one who always got called names, and then beat up on the way home. Well I hope comments like these boost your sorry little ego so that now you feel better about yourself. The classic "tear others down to build yourself up". Even if my goal was to boost my own ego, at least I'm building and creating something to boost it, instead of tearing others down, and trying to destroy things.
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    Thanks to everyone for sharing those videos! It's funny after having mink for so long, it takes some getting used to watching ferrets again. Their movement is so different! So slow and nonchalant. I remember when I got my first ferret, I though that I needed to train it to come when I called, so that it wouldn't escape while we were out hunting. I got my ferret when he was just barely weaned, and trained him to come to his name. I don't remember exactly how I trained him, as this was many years ago when I was just a young boy. But anyway, I got him all trained so we could go hunting wh
  23. Minkenry
    You're right. This sport has been practiced by so many people, and for so long. It will be just another book in the pile that has already been written on the subject. Why add to the pile? All those people who are asking me to write a book on the sport, I should just tell them to read one of the many other books that covers minkenry, instead of writing one of my own, selfishly trying to both make some money and at the same time boost my ego. I totally see your point. From now on when someone from You Tube starts asking me a big list of questions, which happens 4 or 5 times a week, I'll eit
  24. Minkenry
    I assumed that, but since you brought it up, what clips would you recommend?
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    I was just curious about them is all. Never seen or heard of one, so I thought I'd learn more, and see how much they cost, in case I found a use for one. I can think of some uses for one that wouldn't necessarily apply to just hunting. Like maybe helping me check up in holes looking for baby mink or something. I don't know if they would work, but it sounds interesting enough to look into.
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