"Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, fencing was cut and pens and nest boxes were destroyed to release the mink, which are raised for their pelts, Fur Commission USA said. The farm is near Woodbine, Iowa, about 100 miles (161 kilometers) west of Des Moines."

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The owls will be eating well in IA.

If season is open, I’d be laying steel in the biggest way possible.

Not till the first but you’re right.

Is it even profitable to raise mink now??

With all of that going on at so many farms, I am surprised a good security system is not just standard equipment at any facility.

it depends

if you happen to have a commercial fishing outfit you are teamed up with to get all the heads and bodies maybe

that is what the fisherman did for winter money where my great grandfather fished on lake Michigan , he was one of the few who didn't have mink , those that didn't traded to the guys who did for their fish waste.

And those clowns just sentenced those mink to death… by starvation.
I don’t think that pen raised mink would have the natural ability to hunt.

I have caught escaped mink before and have never received a good price for them. Why would that be. They all end up at a auction somewhere?

Need to catch 100 or so matching pelts....

those mink ranchers need some ill tempered guard dogs

Not far from where I live is a very large mink ranch with 4 sites. They are the largest in the western hemisphere. Several years ago they were victums of having a significant release of mink. When they built their two new sites they have a very sophisticated camera and alarm system setup.

Bryce