mink vs rabbit

Pulled into my driveway just in time to watch a mink try and chase down a rabbit. Apparently rabbits can run on top of snow better and faster than a mink. My daughter ran from the car screaming something about a ferret. Rabbit got away safely and the mink entered into a staring contest with my daughter. He slinked off behind my garage and the rabbit ran into the front yard trying to find a place to hide. After watching this unfold for a half a minute or so, it dawned on me... CHICKENS... I tear off to my coupe to find my chickens huddled together in a snow bank scared out of their wits. My daughter and I get the chickens calmed down and back into their night time enclosure. Thats when we noticed the mink again. He was watching us from about 20 feet outside the fenced in area. We walked around, or should I say trudged thru waist deep snow around the fencing. There were mink tracks all around it but none inside. I'll be surprised if my chickens make it thru the winter now. Two of my friends have already lost all of their chickens this winter to fisher cats.

22LR. Pop Goes The Weasel (or mink, in this case.) And save the skin. I hear you can make stuff with it.

In reply to Dr. Hess:

Old Jewish women are completely made from mink.

I'm partial to the Rabbit.

Thats a Manx, not a mink.

Both are warm and fuzzy when processed...

You can make a mink skin hand puppet

In reply to SVreX:

That is a carbon copy of my El Rabbito MKI GTI there. The 22lr is indeed the choice weapon for vermin...

84FSP wrote: In reply to SVreX: That is a carbon copy of my El Rabbito MKI GTI there. The 22lr is indeed the choice weapon for vermin...

Pics or it didn't happen.

I've got one too, but it ain't anywhere near as pretty as that one.

As a former Ferret owner, I would have been rooting for the Mink. (No offense to your chickens of course.) That would be such a cool thing to see in the yard, all I get is deer and turkeys and raccoons and such.

I'm all out of 'coon around here. Dunno what happened. They just "vanished." Damn, getting short on 22LR again. Can't find it at wally world anymore and for the $0.20/round plus shippint that the online places want, I can use a nine mike mike or 223.

Ferrets creep me out. I've had to clean up after several of them in concealed areas of buildings. Disgusting.

Go Bunny, go!

pinchvalve wrote: As a former Ferret owner, I would have been rooting for the Mink. (No offense to your chickens of course.) That would be such a cool thing to see in the yard, all I get is deer and turkeys and raccoons and such.

Me too

The neighbors won't even know...

A jackass neighbor has taken out 3 of our cats with a pellet gun so I assume one would be enough for a mink.

I'm a fan of live and let live, but when you threaten my kids(our dogs), my family, or my livestock. Guess what happens...

Your story above mentions at least one of those 3.

tr8todd wrote: My daughter and I get the chickens calmed down and back into their night time enclosure.

How do you calm down chickens? Do you read them a book?

digdug18 wrote:

tr8todd wrote: My daughter and I get the chickens calmed down and back into their night time enclosure.

How do you calm down chickens? Do you read them a book?

Tiny little glasses of old crow.

Rose colored glasses. I saw it on a show once.

digdug18 wrote:

tr8todd wrote: My daughter and I get the chickens calmed down and back into their night time enclosure.

How do you calm down chickens? Do you read them a book?

Chickens are funny critters. My parents have them, and I see them several times a week. I walk into their enclosure and they all run away from me. Mom or dad walks in and they run up to them and follow them around. Even when we let them free range and run around, if mom or dad is outside with them, they're following them or staying near them.

I can see how just walking out to them, ESPECIALLY if they brought the treat/food bucket with them, would calm them down. No rooster around, their people become the protectors. Not that a hen won't fend for herself, but generally their first instinct is to haul butt. We've got one that will literally try and attack one of my parents dogs if there is a fence between them. Now remove the fence and she's not so "high strung". 60lbs of bird dog staring down a hen get's their attention.

My chickens are more pets than anything else. My kids spend a lot of time with them. They put cat harnesses on them and take them for walks out in the cranberry bogs behind my house. Their favorite thing this time of the year is to climb in the plastic toboggan and have my kids tow them around the yard. They get regular baths and even get their nails polished. Not uncommon for me to come in the house and one of the chickens will be sleeping on one of my kids laps watching TV. Think of a parrot that goes cluck and you pretty much get the idea of the life these birds live.

Gearheadotaku wrote: Thats a Manx, not a mink. Both are warm and fuzzy when processed...

Perhaps a Sable would be more appropriate?

It's the only car I could find named after a mustelid.