How to trap Minks - BackYard Chickens
2016年9月26日 · A foot hold trap or a 110 or 120 Cone bar trap set in a floating mink box (provided you have flowing water) is a great way to send mink to the promised land. Fleming who is a sponsor of BYC is a great place to purchase traps. I also recommend that you get your chickens a Dog Proof coon trap or two.
How To Protect Your Chickens From Mink - BackYard Chickens
2013年6月12日 · Setting a trap entails putting it out with bait that will attract minks, such as fish or fresh meat. Bloody meat will work well, due the mink's propensity to after bloody and wounded animals. Bloody meat will work well, due the mink's propensity to …
What bait to use for a MINK? - BackYard Chickens
2009年6月18日 · Fish, fresh or canned, honey or sugar covered vegetables, smoked fish, cooked fatty meat, crisp bacon, watermelon, sweet corn... But if you're using a live trap be sure to set it on a piece of wood, as Mink will dig the dirt up under the trap and possibly trip it. IMHO, a #110 Conibear would be your best bet. Find the hole and set it right on it.
How to catch a killer mink?! - BackYard Chickens
2011年3月7日 · Quote: I use 110/120 sized conibear type trap a little mink gland lure and some type of bait me I am on the coast they eat fish here for you the chicken should be working it is easier for me to get an animal to go through a trap then it is …
Blind Sets for Mink - trapperman.com
Blind sets are great mink catchers, but knowing where to put the trap is the key. Mink are always hunting and traveling and have a long range. One of the places mink like to travel is along a shore line. The place to try to intercept the mink here is where the mink is forced between a bank and an obstacle such as a stick.
How to Trap a Mink? - BackYard Chickens
2021年3月16日 · Last night, as I was putting the geese to bed in the barn, I saw what I think was a mink under the old horse feed bins. It scurried up the back corner, and I saw its face. Then it crawled back down and ran through an apparent opening into the chicken side of the barn and ran out into the awning that's covered with plastic for winter, but there ...
Trapping a weasel (or mink?)?? - BackYard Chickens
2013年4月14日 · To the OP and others, a single headless bird is more likely a coon vs weasel, mink or one of the cousins. One with a neck chewed off might be an owl. With weasels, minks, etc., once they get rolling, expect to find a bunch of dead birds (they attack movement, so as long as you have live birds flapping about, they keep going).
Why do mink avoid conibears? - Trapperman Forums
2008年5月14日 · I and many of you have seen where mink have avoided conibear traps set for them, especially when there is snow and tracks can be seen. I would like to draw on the vast knowledge on this site and find out why this happens and what we can do about it. Please offer some rationale for your conclusions.
Basic Sets
Trap sizes used for weasels are the #0 longspring, #1 longspring, #1 underspring, #1 coilspring and the #1 1/2 longspring. (*Note, if the #1 1/2 longspring is used, your box will have to be built larger.) Two traps will be used per box, one inside each hole. Position trap so that the weasel will step between the jaws of the trap.
Mink-proofing the hen house door - BackYard Chickens
2020年7月31日 · I'm fairly certain it's a mink because this thing stood up in front of the hen house door while trying to get in and must have been at least 2 - 3 feet long from head to tail. I set the live trap next to the hen house with a can of tuna cat food in it but it didn't appear to come back. Might have to experiment with different baits.