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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: ack] #7718453
11/15/22 06:41 PM
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Originally Posted by ack
Alf was spray painted on the wall.
Called in a snowplow to clear roadkill.
Hunting them like rabbits.
About an hour away from me.
They had fish nets trying to catch them.

Jeepers! Wonder what alf stands for?


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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Blaine County] #7718455
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Pretty sizable group probably needed to open up fences and then usher those released animals toward the opened areas leta alone open the cages for that many mink. With roughly a max of two per cage that is 10-20K of hatches that need to be opened and all in a short period of time and to be unoticed. Typically when excited the mink can get really noisy themselves.

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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718457
11/15/22 06:43 PM
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vast majority will be dead by Saturday road kill/starvation/dehydration...I don't believe a mink farmer would set his own mink free......they just "pelt out" also ranch mink fur in the wild goes bad really fast


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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718458
11/15/22 06:44 PM
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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718462
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Originally Posted by Catch22
Originally Posted by ack
Alf was spray painted on the wall.
Called in a snowplow to clear roadkill.
Hunting them like rabbits.
About an hour away from me.
They had fish nets trying to catch them.

Jeepers! Wonder what alf stands for?

ALF= Animal Liberation Front

Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718465
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1 more thing...most of the mink ranchers I know have good security, and good dogs


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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: keets] #7718468
11/15/22 06:49 PM
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Originally Posted by keets
1 more thing...most of the mink ranchers I know have good security, and good dogs

Yeah, I thought about that. You'd think they'd have good security.


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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718470
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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718472
11/15/22 06:56 PM
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Last update was there's 10k mink unaccounted for. Sounds like most didnt make it out of the enclosure

Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718475
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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718484
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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Sharon] #7718501
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Originally Posted by Sharon
Thanks, I was wondering.

I would hope, if it was ranch financial troubles, that they would sell off their inventory, and get the most they could before they went out of business.

Who would buy them? They would just be into more money prepping them for sale.

Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: lumberjack391] #7718507
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Originally Posted by lumberjack391
Originally Posted by Sharon
Thanks, I was wondering.

I would hope, if it was ranch financial troubles, that they would sell off their inventory, and get the most they could before they went out of business.

Who would buy them? They would just be into more money prepping them for sale.



Ok, I see that, just wondering what they should have done, if it wasn't some anti group that let them loose.

I suppose the question is, what SHOULD a company do in that situation ?

Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718529
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Originally Posted by Sharon
Originally Posted by lumberjack391
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Who would buy them? They would just be into more money prepping them for sale.



Ok, I see that, just wondering what they should have done, if it wasn't some anti group that let them loose.

I suppose the question is, what SHOULD a company do in that situation ?


Pelt them out and go bankrupt, I guess.


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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718531
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Or sell them to another farm if they want em.. i think there's another mink farm in Ohio

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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718551
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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: Catch22] #7718595
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Re: Just seen where 25 to 40K mink were released [Re: ack] #7718607
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Originally Posted by ack
Alf was spray painted on the wall.
Called in a snowplow to clear roadkill.
Hunting them like rabbits.
About an hour away from me.
They had fish nets trying to catch them.


That's what I heard as well. I live about a hour away from there.

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They cut a 3x5 foot hole in the wall. A lot of the white mink were painted red. This morning they said about 10000 were unaccounted for. I talked with the county sheriff and the neighboring sheriff today. They even had some law enforcement skinning.


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