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Post by scrub-buster on Oct 11, 2023 7:48:29 GMT -5
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Post by HighCotton on Oct 11, 2023 8:36:16 GMT -5
Beady black eyed critters! I don’t remember if I posted this, but I learned a few years ago, that they also climb trees. In a tree stand, I heard noise rustling on the ground, and then I saw the critter! Next thing I know, it starts screeching at me and climbing the tree toward me! I came within inches of smacking him with my broadhead! Actually, kind of freaked me out!
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Post by stevein on Oct 11, 2023 8:57:49 GMT -5
Beady black eyed critters! I don’t remember if I posted this, but I learned a few years ago, that they also climb trees. In a tree stand, I heard noise rustling on the ground, and then I saw the critter! Next thing I know, it starts screeching at me and climbing the tree toward me! I came within inches of smacking him with my broadhead! Actually, kind of freaked me out! That made me think of old Foghorn Leghorn and the chicken hawk.😁 I think all weasels have that short complex and will take on anything just to prove they are big.
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Post by oldhoyt on Oct 11, 2023 12:32:44 GMT -5
When I was a kid back in NH, we'd icefish on a small pond. The action was usually pretty fast, and before too long we'd have dead shiners laying on the ice at every hole. Once when I was tending to a tip-up, my buddy called to me saying, "Something black is coming out from the woods toward you." I figured he was joking but I turned around and there about 15 feet away was a mink. Had never seen one before, but I knew what it was. I tossed him the live shiner in my hands. He grabbed it quick and went back to the woods. I figured the fun was over and re-set the line. I walked back to my buddy and as we sat there jigging and watching for flags, that mink kept coming back out, checking from hole to hole for more shiners. He ate good that day. We fished there quite a bit and we didn't see him every time, but did see him more than once. They're pretty cool critters, until they want to eat something you'd rather they didn't.
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Post by schall53 on Oct 11, 2023 12:43:18 GMT -5
This thing was at one of my plants yesterday. It didn't stop moving so the pictures aren't the greatest. Definitely a mink
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Post by MuzzleLoader on Oct 11, 2023 14:14:01 GMT -5
See a lot of them in Dearborn co.
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Post by HighCotton on Oct 11, 2023 14:16:54 GMT -5
A crazy side story. When I was finishing my Biology degree at Purdue, I happened to read in my text book that one of the animals that closely resembled the human body and could be used during dissection to help especially identify the muscles was the mink. I put the word out to some of my farm friends. Next thing I know, a close friend, the late Lee Clingenpeel from North Liberty brought me a mink he had trapped. I took it home. I poured some wax in my wife’s cake pan. I Let it set up and pinned the mink down and went to dissecting. To this day, I will never forget the smell!
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Mink?
Oct 11, 2023 16:47:22 GMT -5
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Post by astronankin on Oct 11, 2023 16:47:22 GMT -5
We had a mink get into our chicken coop at least once. The last time I remember it was this dark colored animal that was chasing a lone youngster around the coop. The coop door was closed on accident so all the adult birds were outside. This one youngster hadn't made it out in time and was flying around and sqwaking. We heard the noise and Dad went out. Mink was killed, chick got outside fine except for the scare.
Another time, I walked out to do chores one morning and my brother's rabbit wasn't moving. There were no holes, etc. Only one small hole that we thought too small to be of any concern. Well the rabbit's throat had been cut during the night. A mink was the only thing we could think of.
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Mink?
Oct 11, 2023 21:21:29 GMT -5
Post by ms660 on Oct 11, 2023 21:21:29 GMT -5
We had a mink get into our chicken coop at least once. The last time I remember it was this dark colored animal that was chasing a lone youngster around the coop. The coop door was closed on accident so all the adult birds were outside. This one youngster hadn't made it out in time and was flying around and sqwaking. We heard the noise and Dad went out. Mink was killed, chick got outside fine except for the scare. Another time, I walked out to do chores one morning and my brother's rabbit wasn't moving. There were no holes, etc. Only one small hole that we thought too small to be of any concern. Well the rabbit's throat had been cut during the night. A mink was the only thing we could think of.
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Post by ms660 on Oct 11, 2023 21:25:14 GMT -5
A crazy side story. When I was finishing my Biology degree at Purdue, I happened to read in my text book that one of the animals that closely resembled the human body and could be used during dissection to help especially identify the muscles was the mink. I put the word out to some of my farm friends. Next thing I know, a close friend, the late Lee Clingenpeel from North Liberty brought me a mink he had trapped. I took it home. I poured some wax in my wife’s cake pan. I Let it set up and pinned the mink down and went to dissecting. To this day, I will never forget the smell! On each side of their a-hole are two glans. If you cut into them you sure know it. back when fur was worth going after me and my partner would catch 50-plus mink each season. We would save these glans to make lure with
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Post by bill9068 on Oct 12, 2023 10:09:45 GMT -5
I had something similar on my creek bridge eating a crawfish the other day. Earlier this year had one up by the house.
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