What bait to use for a MINK?

[Duck/GooseCRAZY]

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what about raw chicken? where do I get mink gland? (probably a dumb question! but, I don't care....I desperately want to get to the root of my problem!

 

[panner123]

Log set your trap and bait it with a mouse and in the morning you will have your mink. That is once you learn to bait the trap with a live mouse, if you do it wring the mouse will trip the trap and the mink gets a free dinner.

 

[PeepsInc]

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what about raw chicken? where do I get mink gland? (probably a dumb question! but, I don't care....I desperately want to get to the root of my problem!

Cabelas,Dicks or Ebay any sporting goods store.

 

[BBK]

My husbands traps muskrats. And every once in a while something will get the rat...He then knows there a mink around.

So he sets his traps with chicken also...minks love chicken. I'm sure you would be able ot get that instead of muskrat!

He's caught a few, good money for mink pelts...especially black.

Melinda

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

A live rat would be a good bait. You could go to the pet store and get one - they sell feeder mice. Anything alive is going to be your best bet. Then it's the mink gland which you can obtain through trapping suppliers or when you skin a mink there are little white glands under the tail by the vent and you simply cut those out and you can stick them in a jar with a little glycerin to store.

I assume you want to use raw chicken from a store...which may work but it may take longer to catch it. I would use fresh chicken flesh, rabbit flesh, squirrel flesh, etc....Fresh meaning that it is still bloody and very recently died...not cleaned up, packaged meat from a store.

Live bait will always be your best bet with a mink. You can stick some sardines or whatever you like a few feet from a live bait and everytime they will kill the live bait and not touch the other. I would use a juvie chick...say 2-3 months old...that would work well but I understand this is not something everyone would be able to do so if you have to use the other stuff then it is still OK you might just catch yourself a mink. THEN collect those glands and store them in case you need them for another mink.

 

[Duck/GooseCRAZY]

Ahhh

learn something new every time I get on here! Thank you for your help. My uncle has broiler houses. I am sure I can use some of his biddies. I'll will get the ones that are deformed or something. Ones that I know are not going to make it. Then I won't feel so bad. Do I tie its legs down to the trap? How does it not set it off?

 

[cameron larson3]

what kind of bait do i w=use for trapping a mink or is it going to be beter if i set #110 conibears on its den

 

[chickengeorgeto]

While mink do prefer to kill their own food, no animal in nature can afford to pass up inspecting something that suggest the presence of food. So make your own food or scent lure. Take a 12oz. plastic Coke bottle and fill it 2/3rds full of beaten eggs, the older the eggs the better. Screw the cap down AND THEN BACK THE CAP BACK OFF JUST ENOUGH THAT IT IS NOT AIR TIGHT. Gently squeezing the bottle will tell you if air can escape. Now bury the bottle sitting UPRIGHT in the ground and where you can find it. Let the bottle mature in the dark, cool Earth for at least 6 months. When you dig it up be sure you tighten the top down snugly before leaving it in the storage room. For some reason women don't like the smell of rotten eggs. To use this lure dip a Q-tip in it or the end of a twig or tree branch.

If your trying to nab a mink in a cubby set, this "smell" grabs his attention, so put it in the back of the cubby hole. When he arrives the mink finds the fresh bait and if he stays around to long you'll catch him. ALWAYS SCREW THE BOTTLE TOP DOWN SECURELY, especially before you return the bottle to your pocket.

Except when the female mink has kits minks don't have dens, but they all do love to check out every tunnel and hole in a stream bank that they come across. These are all good places to make blind mink sets and baited cubby hole sets or to use a Conibear trap.

As far as I know a fur harvesting license is required in all 50 states to sell raw fur.

Perhaps the best mink bait is a chunk of raw muskrat.

 

[tatertot]

I just heard of a fly killer that works on everything. It is called Golden Marlin or something like that 1 teaspoon to 1/2 cup of milk and will kill everything that eats it. The Amish use it all the time i was told. They say Possums and Coons will die 6 ft from eating it so be very careful if you use if.

I'm very surprised chickengeorgeto hasn't commented on this...its illegal to poison animals with golden malrin.
anything that drinks it will die and anything that eats the carcass will die...etc

 

[tatertot]

What if your dog cat or kids get into it?