seang 163 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Anyone ever heard of a blue coloured mink was told today a fella got one and got offered big money for it stuffed 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 What he needs is a great big melting pot 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
j j m 6,483 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 never heard of one my self Quote Link to post Share on other sites
fatasafool 216 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 You'd a heard them in the old working men clubs of the early seventies Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Leveller Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Mink come in a massive range of colours 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WILF 44,391 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Blue mink is the name of Levellers after shave !.......it's a big hit with the laydeeeeezzzzz! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
patterdale666 1,620 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Anyone ever heard of a blue coloured mink was told today a fella got one and got offered big money for it stuffed Any pics Sean? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
romany52 313 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Mink come in a massive range of colours That's right mate, I worked on a mink farm years ago, they come in an amazing range of colours . In the wild though , natural selection favors the normal colour so as time goes on, you tend to find less and less of the mutated colours . In the early days of colonization they were far more common. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BORDERSCOT 3,816 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Here's a pic of blue mink I caught more than 30 years ago - not too great a pic I'll accept but you'll get the gist - used to trap and dog dozens every year...mostly the normal minky rich black/brown white chest and chin but now and then there'd be different colours...thought I had better pics of this mink but it appears not... 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The one 8,398 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Looks very unusual Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BORDERSCOT 3,816 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 Looks very unusual It was a female and it was caught on August 12th 1984 - wasn't very big - perhaps smaller than the usual female mink but it was a rich blue/grey colour...had one or two like it...rare though 'cause we killed hundreds of mink here in the Borders...I'm sure I have better pics somewhere... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
r judd 13 Posted April 13, 2013 Report Share Posted April 13, 2013 blue or silver mink as they are more comonly kown arnt that rare my dad had one a few year back and reard it from a kit tame but like grease lightning it used to catch roach in the bath his mate had a young black dog mink at same time bred it with a ferrert but no kits started to bite soon affter Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Outlaw Pete 2,224 Posted April 14, 2013 Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 Back around the eighties I visited a shop in Islington. Taxidermists shop. Called " Get Stuffed ". I believe it's still there. They offered all sorts of work, back then. Excellent to crap, which they bought in. They explained that the crap was cheap and suited some customers, like pubs, where the Theme was more important than the quality. Fair comment. They had at least one " Blue " (Smoky grey, actually) mink in the window. Piece of shit, it was. All skinny and angular. Crimson paint stuffed into its widely open mouth. That all suggests it was mounted by a complete novice. Probably trapped by him, or his mates? And not so note worthy as to have tried to get a better job done on it, or not flogged off cheap. So; The ALF type loons were still letting farmed mink go, back then. Probably enough 'Blue' etc. ones amongst them. I guess there'll always be throw backs, even today. Just as albino's happen in wild rats. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
cammy12 176 Posted April 14, 2013 Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 trapped a blue/silver mink in my chicken pen this year decent sized dog mink, I wish I new its pelt was worth something shame its well gone now Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BORDERSCOT 3,816 Posted April 14, 2013 Report Share Posted April 14, 2013 trapped a blue/silver mink in my chicken pen this year decent sized dog mink, I wish I new its pelt was worth something shame its well gone now Worth nothing mate - we used to trap hundreds here and they were worth very little then so they'll be worth less now even rare/ish colours... 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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