Minkenry 1,044 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 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 4 Quote Link to post
foxdropper 17,092 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Quaity mate .Do you hand rear them or wild catch ? Quote Link to post
Richie87 401 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Top class footage mate Quote Link to post
Bergman 4 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Excellent mate.do you use mink all the time not bother with ferrets Are the mink hand tame mate. Looking forward to your next post Quote Link to post
Chicken_man 1,651 Posted January 13, 2015 Report Share Posted January 13, 2015 Wow, fair old scrap that. Do you also use male mink too ? Quote Link to post
Minkenry 1,044 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Quaity mate .Do you hand rear them or wild catch ? 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 call mink like this "exclusive" because they only like one person. Mink who were raised by their natural mother are almost never exclusive, and once tame they like just about everyone the same. Quote Link to post
Minkenry 1,044 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 (edited) Excellent mate.do you use mink all the time not bother with ferrets 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 brown rat teeth! It would be pretty difficult to find a ferret that can handle these beasts on a regular basis! We also like to hunt a species of ground squirrel called "rock squirrels" These guys are a little too much for most ferrets, and way too fast. So to answer your question, no I don't mess with ferrets. They don't work well for most of the hunting we like to do with our mink. Edited January 14, 2015 by Minkenry 1 Quote Link to post
Minkenry 1,044 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Are the mink hand tame mate. 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! Quote Link to post
Minkenry 1,044 Posted January 14, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Wow, fair old scrap that. Do you also use male mink too ? 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 I don't get to hunt with very many wild mink, I typically stick to working with female mink. Quote Link to post
Chicken_man 1,651 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Real good, amazing how they respond to voice, and so fast + a very versatile animal. Thanks 1 Quote Link to post
mhopton 807 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Class , pure class mate I want one 1 Quote Link to post
Bergman 4 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Yet again.first class post been in the game for over 40years Never seen any thing like that. They still seem to have retained there Natural hunting instinct. Fast and furious. Nice to see the wife taking part.not many women brave enough to Pick them bad boys up.that is mink and rats. Keep em coming Cheers 2 Quote Link to post
*The*Field*Marshall* 674 Posted January 14, 2015 Report Share Posted January 14, 2015 Bravo. Great posts - absolutely mesmerised! Love them or hate the, the mink is some animal! Wow 2 Quote Link to post
crazykaz 14 Posted January 15, 2015 Report Share Posted January 15, 2015 Wow impressive!!! Fab videos amazing at there work love how they go back to the box and come to call.. Haha great stuff Thanks for sharing 1 Quote Link to post
ZeusPolecat 185 Posted January 17, 2015 Report Share Posted January 17, 2015 Great stuff Joe! 1 Quote Link to post
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