Diseased Mink... Questions and Facts.

[bobbi-j]

One good thing about mink - they’ll show you where the weak spots are in your setup. Unfortunately, that can be a costly lesson.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Well, you might be right about them not being ambitious.

However, there isn't that many free steak meals just laying around right?

Sooner or later, they will notice, there's this weird box shaped 'chicken dispenser' on that one farm, not too far from there.

I'm thinking that mink thinks your chicken coop is a meat dispenser.

I don't think its any coincidence that they showed up not 2 weeks after the chickens. I've never seen a mink alive before. And unfortunately we don't have a gun. We wanted to shot it, end its suffering (and ours) but I'm thinking its already passed on, it never came out of the woods, can turkey vultures get rabies, I know they are fairly common, and if they can't, I hope a big flock of them eats the worst if it before a racoon gets it or something. Better yet, the DNR!!!!

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Were calling them soon lol. No response.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

No sign of the minks, or any other mink/rabid animal, hopefully it died off our property, and the other animals have the seance not to eat it lol.

 

[theautumnalfox]

Rabies is my first thought. Definitely keep all animals away from it, whether it or its babies are alive or dead.

 

[Chickenhappy8708]

Yeah, it will be a few weeks before the chickens are aloud to free range any way.