Trapping Mink

minktrapper

Anybody ever use a conibear trap for trapping mink.

Minky 123

Them traps arent very selective in what they kill. I dont know if there legal to use in Ireland. Your better off using a live cage trap.

minktrapper

Mink are not very selective in what they kill.But im sure thoses traps could be used in such a way so as not to be a nuisance to other spicies.

homerhop

There are guidelines for what type of traps and snares you are allowed to use. http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2003/en/si/0620.html
Regardless of mink being selective or not we are obliged to be selective of the types of traps/snares we use and always be concious of other species that may be caught, thats why most clubs use live catch traps for mink.

Amateurish

Bad news putting those anywhere in this country for a few reasons.
The anti brigade would only love a couple of pics of someone's little pet cat caught up in one. Surely a cage trap would only involve the same amount of work setting up anyway, and in fairness even the mink is entitled to a humane end. If you're stuck for a cage someone from the local club would probably loan you one.

minktrapper

Thanks for your assistance.

Half-cocked

Caught a mink in one of our cage traps the other day, right beside our pen:mad::mad::mad:

We had been mink free up until this year, then a cat brought in a half dead juvenile. Set the traps as a precaution and now it looks like we have more.

LostCovey

Half-cocked wrote: »

Caught a mink in one of our cage traps the other day, right beside our pen:mad::mad::mad:

We had been mink free up until this year, then a cat brought in a half dead juvenile. Set the traps as a precaution and now it looks like we have more.

I am pestered with them. I think that you have to assume that they are everywhere, certainly anywhere within a mile of a watercourse. I see them regularly. And Pine Martens. And foxes.

Very hard to keep a few hens without building Stalag Luft IV

LC