I built a wood box with one end open, placed it in the coop, put crab meat in the back of the box, and put a conibear trap in front of the opening. I left the coop door open so the mink didn't have to work too hard.
On a side note, the mink sprayed when he set off the trap and now my coop...
A little over 3 weeks ago and mink got into our chicken coop and killed all but 1 or my chickens. ( A rooster that sleeps on the porch with our cat survived simply because he wasn't in the coop.) The mink somehow squeezed through the fencing to the yard, climbed up a 9 foot coop wall, busted 1/4...