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mink trapping

hollowpoint

Anyone else trapping mink this time of year? Got 2 savage buck mink in a baited pocket set in 4 days at the same location, have 16 traps down at minute. Am i d only daft enough to b out at it!?

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greasepalm

I have been following The Mink Man on YouTube as he is training his Minx for rat colony removal along with dogs.

Farmers and others plagued by rats now have a solution when 120 - 500 in 1 day is insane.

dmakc

Spotted a mink on the road near me the other day. Another neighbour said he saw a nest of them. What would be the basics A-Z in going about trapping them? No idea how many are around. There are foxes, badgers, rabbits, hare and a few hedgehogs around the area so equally would like to avoid accidentally harming these.

minktrapper

Prime Time tonight with politicians having their say on the environment. No mention about mink. Or the €20 bounty that was suggested. The sooner that is introduced the better.

Eddie B

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119843523#Comment_119843523

I made a smaller version of a raft, with a mesh Tunnel, and a Fenn mk6 in it. It worked. They work well in slow moving rivers, and probably a good choice where there are marten in the area

minktrapper

Or try walking the river bank with a torch at night.

minktrapper

Any of ye try a mink raft for trapping mink.

JP22

Lots of mink on some parts of the Liffey, other parts have relatively few of them.

Like any wild animal, I guess its down to habitat and the availability and ease of food.

I know a chap who has caught plenty of them on the Liffey, well done to him.

Birdnuts

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118185797#Comment_118185797

Talking to a guy who does it 2day between Celbridge and Palmerstown on the Liffey and nearby tribs - got nearly 50 already this year!!

Eddie B

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118187754#Comment_118187754

Thing is, rats do a lot of damage to ground nesting birds too

minktrapper

Good sigh that there is no mink around when there are rats there. Hopefully it will stay that way.

Eddie B

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118185797#Comment_118185797

I tried my local river a few weeks ago. Got nothing only rats. Even had a couple of trail cams out, and not a mink to be seen. Weather is very mild so far this year. Gonna try a different river next week hopefully

minktrapper

Any mink been caught this time of year.

minktrapper

Thought I had the demons banished from the river. Caught two more this week.
I wonder would thermal be any good for spotting mink on the river during the winter when all the foliage would be gone.

minktrapper

Eddie B wrote: »

I think to get on top of mink, you have to trap all year round. I only trap each location for a couple of weeks each winter, so doubt it. More likely, someone else is trapping the rivers I trapped

Fairly sure someone is trapping my river too. The more the better.

Eddie B

minktrapper wrote: »

Maybe you are getting on too of them.

I think to get on top of mink, you have to trap all year round. I only trap each location for a couple of weeks each winter, so doubt it. More likely, someone else is trapping the rivers I trapped

minktrapper

Eddie B wrote: »

I done a couple of weeks. Very little action this year. Not sure why. A couple of lads i know, have had plenty.

Maybe you are getting on too of them.

Eddie B

minktrapper wrote: »

Any mink being trapped. Put my cages down last week. Nothing caught. A good sign I hope. No mink footprints either.

I done a couple of weeks. Very little action this year. Not sure why. A couple of lads i know, have had plenty.

minktrapper

Stihl waters wrote: »

Can anyone post a link to a good site with trapping tips, many thanks

If you look back on the older pages here. I think there should be some.

Stihl waters

Can anyone post a link to a good site with trapping tips, many thanks

Birdnuts

Quiet my end too - may be down to the Big F**K of a dog Otter thats hanging out on the shore of my place in North Mayo currently

minktrapper

Any mink being trapped. Put my cages down last week. Nothing caught. A good sign I hope. No mink footprints either.

Grizzly 45

minktrapper wrote: »

Question for all ye trappers. Why are gin traps illegal where as fenn traps are legal.

Gin traps are pressure release.IE something like a paw has to put pressure on the plate to fire the trap. It is a holding rather than killing device.

Fenn and Coniber and others are pull release.IE there is a bait and it is wired into the mechanism so the animal's body has to be well within the jaws of the trap to affect instant death.
Beats me why we aren't allowed to use deadfall traps here. Done right, and in the right size they will kill anything from rats to foxes.

minktrapper

It will probably build up resistance to it and pass the resistance on to all the mink all over the planet. Make them in to super mink.

Eddie B

A wild mink in America has tested positive for corona virus.

Eddie B

minktrapper wrote: »

A Google says they can and do get distemper.

Any links to suggest there is an outbreak in wild mink here in Ireland?

minktrapper

A Google says they can and do get distemper.

Eddie B

minktrapper wrote: »

Distemper in Mink. Any of ye hear of distemper in mink. Seems to be a noticeable reduction of mink numbers around me. Thought it was my trapping that was reducing numbers. I was told recently that they got distemper. Comments welcome.

Have never heard of it in mink. What about that dreaded Covid 19 virus?

minktrapper

Distemper in Mink. Any of ye hear of distemper in mink. Seems to be a noticeable reduction of mink numbers around me. Thought it was my trapping that was reducing numbers. I was told recently that they got distemper. Comments welcome.

minktrapper

Thin line between the two of them.

Eddie B

minktrapper wrote: »

Question for all ye trappers. Why are gin traps illegal where as fenn traps are legal.

Fenn traps are designed to catch and kill small animals like rats, mink, squirrel. They are also designed to be used in an artificial or natural tunnel. They are a body gripping trap, and not a foot holding trap. A gin trap is more so a foot holding trap, and seen as inhumane. Outlawed since the 70's i believe.