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Trapping mink

Postby sploot » Mon Sep 17, 2012 9:19 pm

We have ( potentially ) a mink problem.
Want to lay a mink trap to see if mink is indeed the culprit and remove the mink from this stretch of the river

Dont want my Indian Runners slaughtered like i fear the local mallard population has been recently.

Any Ideas?
where can I get such a thing
and how would be best to use it?
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby nathanhutchison » Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:26 pm

Get the larger size of fen trap (cant remember the size, mk6 maybe) should be able to pick them up at reekies(sp) Then give me a call. :thup:

edit* it is a mk6 :grin:
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby sploot » Tue Sep 18, 2012 9:46 am

OK Mr... will do.... see you soon :)
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby Triffid » Tue Sep 18, 2012 10:31 am

I'm involved in mink control on Fleet Pond near me and on behalf of the Council (who own it) and the local convervation volunteers (who help manage it).
Try the following guidance. You can buy the traps from agricultural suppliers.
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby sploot » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:37 pm

Triffid wrote:I'm involved in mink control on Fleet Pond near me and on behalf of the Council (who own it) and the local convervation volunteers (who help manage it).
Try the following guidance. You can buy the traps from agricultural suppliers.
Triffid
gct_mink_raft_guidelineslr[1].pdf


Thanks Triffid.
I just had a quick squint at that document. Very interesting. Sounds like a good plan.
What do you do with the little " darlings " ( or other expletive ) when ewe catch them?
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby FXL5 » Tue Sep 18, 2012 3:38 pm

sploot wrote:
Triffid wrote:I'm involved in mink control on Fleet Pond near me and on behalf of the Council (who own it) and the local convervation volunteers (who help manage it).
Try the following guidance. You can buy the traps from agricultural suppliers.
Triffid
gct_mink_raft_guidelineslr[1].pdf


Thanks Triffid.
I just had a quick squint at that document. Very interesting. Sounds like a good plan.
What do you do with the little " darlings " ( or other expletive ) when ewe catch them?


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Re: Trapping mink

Postby sploot » Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:14 am

FXL5 wrote:
Traditionally, fur coats?


If there are that many I'm proper F***ed ! :shock:
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby mathspete » Wed Sep 19, 2012 9:10 am

[quote="sploot
Thanks Triffid.
I just had a quick squint at that document. Very interesting. Sounds like a good plan.
What do you do with the little " darlings " ( or other expletive ) when ewe catch them?[/quote]

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Re: Trapping mink

Postby Triffid » Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:13 pm

Dispatching them is where I come in . . . The Rangers and Conservation volunteers are responsible for the trapping bit - making and positioning the rafts etc: they'll let me know when (and if!) they catch one. As I said to them when they started, first catch your mink . . .

However a word of caution. From what I've seen and read the actual dispatch has to be by the book. Don't even think of knocking the beast on the head, let alone drowning it, as you'll have the RSPCA onto you quicker than you can count. There are a couple of approved methods, one being taking the animal to the nearest vet and paying them to do the lethal injection! It's a mad, mad world.

The other suggested method is using a decent air-pistol - for me a Crosman 2240 seems ideal but it suggests a Webley Hurricane in the blurb. I'd suggest that one of the Umerex type CO2 replicas hasn't got enough power to do the job cleanly. Use two pieces of plywood with fingers cut-out so they fit through the cage wire to trap the mink in one corner of the cage and shoot from point-blank into the cranium. The blurb also recommends using steel 'Promethius' pellets, but IMO that's dangerous - any standard lead pellet will easily do the job.

As for what to do with the pelt . . .first catch your mink!

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sploot wrote:
Triffid wrote:I'm involved in mink control on Fleet Pond near me and on behalf of the Council (who own it) and the local convervation volunteers (who help manage it).
Try the following guidance. You can buy the traps from agricultural suppliers.
Triffid
gct_mink_raft_guidelineslr[1].pdf


Thanks Triffid.
I just had a quick squint at that document. Very interesting. Sounds like a good plan.
What do you do with the little " darlings " ( or other expletive ) when ewe catch them?
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby Sidebyside » Sat Sep 22, 2012 10:23 pm

Triffid wrote:Dispatching them is where I come in . . . The Rangers and Conservation volunteers are responsible for the trapping bit - making and positioning the rafts etc: they'll let me know when (and if!) they catch one. As I said to them when they started, first catch your mink . . .

However a word of caution. From what I've seen and read the actual dispatch has to be by the book. Don't even think of knocking the beast on the head, let alone drowning it, as you'll have the RSPCA onto you quicker than you can count. There are a couple of approved methods, one being taking the animal to the nearest vet and paying them to do the lethal injection! It's a mad, mad world.

The other suggested method is using a decent air-pistol - for me a Crosman 2240 seems ideal but it suggests a Webley Hurricane in the blurb. I'd suggest that one of the Umerex type CO2 replicas hasn't got enough power to do the job cleanly. Use two pieces of plywood with fingers cut-out so they fit through the cage wire to trap the mink in one corner of the cage and shoot from point-blank into the cranium. The blurb also recommends using steel 'Promethius' pellets, but IMO that's dangerous - any standard lead pellet will easily do the job.

As for what to do with the pelt . . .first catch your mink!

Triffid




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Re: Trapping mink

Postby flintlok » Sun Sep 23, 2012 2:46 am

Sidebyside wrote: In the 60s I worked on a mink farm for a short while , the only way to kill them without spoiling their pelt was by hand :shock: , not to be tried unless you wear asbestos gloves , savage as hell .


I would have love to have seen that, SidebySide VS Animal Mink. In this corner we have.........

Okay lets have a clean break and come swinging!!!!!! :thup: :thup: :thup: :thup: ;) ;) ;) ;)
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby Sidebyside » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:39 am

flintlok wrote:
Sidebyside wrote: In the 60s I worked on a mink farm for a short while , the only way to kill them without spoiling their pelt was by hand :shock: , not to be tried unless you wear asbestos gloves , savage as hell .


I would have love to have seen that, SidebySide VS Animal Mink. In this corner we have.........

Okay lets have a clean break and come swinging!!!!!! :thup: :thup: :thup: :thup: ;) ;) ;) ;)

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Re: Trapping mink

Postby Sidebyside » Sun Sep 23, 2012 6:40 am

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Re: Trapping mink

Postby plugg » Sun Sep 23, 2012 4:19 pm

sploot wrote:What do you do with the little " darlings " ( or other expletive ) when ewe catch them?


150gr .308 bullet any use Robbie? ;) :grin:
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Re: Trapping mink

Postby Cottontail killer » Wed Sep 26, 2012 8:59 pm

plugg wrote:
sploot wrote:What do you do with the little " darlings " ( or other expletive ) when ewe catch them?


150gr .308 bullet any use Robbie? ;) :grin:


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