Noticed a half dozen ticks on this mink’s head. I was surprised they stayed on the mink in a drowning set. Is this a regular thing? Do you guys tweeze them off? I think I’ll try freezing hole and see if they fall off on their own.

It's not surprising. They will burrow under the skin of some animals. Just pop em off.

Deep freeze it for two weeks it will kill them.
I seen ticks on a mink once about 45 years ago.Had them on its ears and eyelids.Never seen a mink with ticks since.
Ticks on rabbits are common here in June.
Caught a beaver 2 springs ago covered in ticks-first and only time I have ever seen ticks on a beaver in my lifetime.
Another trapper reported a beaver with ticks same spring from a totally different drainage.Like myself,he has been trapping for near 50 years and it was the first time he ever seen ticks on a beaver.

Maybe in Canada but my frozen mink ticks re-activated after thawing......

Very common here in Ct

I have had to use bug spray on a few coyotes too

I just turned a coyote the other day and out fell three grape size ticks on the floor, actually pretty rare in my country. Where is grew up in northeast Nebraska it was a daily chore to rid the dogs of ticks.

Thanks for the tips. I just plucked them off with some tweezers. This mink must have been a tick magnet, I’ve never picked up a tick in the area I trapped it. I guess they spend a lot of time nosing around in the grass.

I seen that with rabbit ticks.
Freezing the beaver killed them all and there were hundreds all over the beaver,
I sent some of the dead ones off to be examined at the university and they were indeed a species specific beaver tick(Ixodes Banksii).

Hard to find a mink without ticks here, or a fox. Some have a lot. For some reason the coon don't seem to have them as much.

North of 50 will know what they are.
Where is N of 50,havent seen him post in a couple days.

Yea I was so sick of ticks one year I thought freezing before skinning would kill them (mink)- the experiment was a failure. I dont think long term submergence kills them either.

Ticks on Mink is common in Pennsylvania.

Mink here most all will have ticks on them. Dead of winter, submerged in freezing water for a day you would think they would bail off but they don't. My mink go in a sealed plastic bag with a good shot of ether. Takes care of them.

I only catch a couple mink a season, but I don’t think I’ve ever seen one without a tick on it. Usually I find them right on the back or head.