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@@thesupersimon :)

wow

Bruh

She knew that movement puts the Mink on a kill spree..

It’s because minks don’t eat the whole thing they only eat the brain

Minks CACHE their food for later...and they have an UNSTOPPABLE desire to kill everything they can during a hunt, so killing just one animal isn’t enough. They will wipe out an entire flock (or rat colony, which is a benefit), then cache the kills in some hiding place for later.

And the mink came and the mink did bite and the mink did delight. And the alarm was silenced. Later that night the sound of the shotgun blasted and echoed into the dark and the mink was no more. Thanks for watching and commenting. Thankfully there have been no further mink attacks on the flock and coop security is greatly improved.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 the irony of the world! The big wheel in the sky keeps turning

I agree. I have tried a red bulb in the coop on several occasions. Seems to cause most of the hens to want to go broody. I've been testing various levels of light in the coop to try and find a good solution. Currently I have been trying white light hanging low, below the roost bars. Both geese and chickens seem to be more active so I worry about them getting enough rest at night. Egg production seems lower too, but that might be related to having different hens from before.

Try a red light. Been doing it for years during the cold winter months here in Minnesota. The geese an hens never seemed to be bothered by it. Good luck 👍

I never heard of that before,good info,thanks

@@STRAYD0G187 Birds need some sleep too.. light disturb their sleeping habit

@@Ameer-is3dh Been raising birds for over 25 years. Believe me, they learn to get use to it. It’s like all livestock in Alaska. When there’s daylight or no sunlight for months...they learn to adapt. 🤷🏻‍♂️

“volunteered”

Thanks. I didn't check gender. It was 24-1/2 inches nose to tail if that makes any difference. I know the mink was just doing what minks and other predators do, it was just my chickens this time. Over the several attacks, the mink took out 55 of 57 of my chickens, and the smaller goose. The first attack, shown in this video, really surprised me as I had no idea we had any minks in our area. My son and I found where the mink got in through the chicken wire apron around the bottom in a corner. We secured that with an additional apron, this one of hardware cloth over the chicken wire. We had to leave town the next day, so were not home when the subsequent attacks came. The mink got in the second time through the wire covering the ventilation by the rafters. The next attack was not in the coop, but in the pond where the geese were. I was amazed the mink was so stealthy and then so swift to be able to surprise the geese. The ramaining two chickens and goose would not go back in the coop after the first attack. No surprise there. So I left the door open just a little with a live trap set. The mink went into the trap, but was fast enough to get out vefore the trap door was able to latch. Possibly, the tail kept it from closing fully. The next time it went over the trap, I was able to remotely turn on the interior lights and fan. This allowed me the time I needed to get to the coop and resolve the problem. I have gone to great lengths since this video to secure my coop, and added a secure run to it as well. I do hope I have it secure enough to prevent any such attacks in the future.

This breaks my heart😥

I love your channel

Open carry guard geese. 😁

Oh boy, some of these posts are making me laugh out loud.

@Arabi Kalyanam Careful what you say, you never know if the secret service is watching my liberal little friend. MAGA 2020

@Arabi Kalyanam lmao is that why he is already president? What a fantasy world you people live in

@Arabi Kalyanam Thats funny, Barack Obama was voted in twice, so anything can happen

I think you meant “coop”. A coup is a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.

@@KisuMocha oh my goodness we wouldn't have survived if you hadn't corrected his spelling. Good work citizen.

@@paulrietveld9837 Thank you so much! 😊 I’ve been working my hardest trying to improve the literacy rate of America. For once, someone actually appreciates my hard work rather than getting offended that I’m trying to help them. Thank you for being the first person to show me kindness and positivity for what I do! 🥰

@@KisuMocha cringe

@@KisuMocha u know he is being sarcastic right

Try biting one when its alive

that was a death scream. we had raccoons raid my coop last summer and that’s what they do when they’re on deaths door

oh the terror buhuhu

Sad to hear she lost all 6. It's not pleasant to see all the effort gone and the loss. My grandmother had fits with the weasels back in the day, but they are pretty rare now. Minks though seem to have been thriving. Glad the weasel won't be a problem. Hope it was a loner.

Hahahah serves him right

I hope you tortured that weasel to death

@@lolololo2965 The mink leaked a lot.

I second this statement and bless it

Sir Goose! 😁

I can not play this video with the sound turned on.

Farmer please give them a light source

Also sucks to have a home that isn't predator proof. Very irresponsible. Although I'm against having to take a course in order to own chickens, in some cases it may help to prevent loss. Someone commented, "live and learn," but do people have to see this happen to understand that it will happen, therefore causing them to build safe homes for their birds? I hope this video drives home that message.

The solution is near. Put a light in there. Connect the light to a computer with an IR camera. It will watch and see how much movement there is. Using AI you can create a pretty good algorithm for how to detect. Consider false positives. Let's say the birds get into a fight with each other and then the light goes on. Problem? Not really. It might spook them into being quiet. What else can you do? I suppose you could have a dog live in there or something. But then you need a good fighting dog. And maybe it will eat the chickens. Or get in a fight with them. I think the little camera connected to a simple arduino or raspberry pi or esp32 with just a simple efficient algorithm and an ir camera all of which you can buy for like $40. The light turns on, the minx maybe gets freaked out. Then you can simply have a rule where if the light gets turned on and the movement increases at any point while the light is on, it sends a text message to your phone each time this happens. Or if you think that's too annoying, you can have it play a sound of your voice on a loud speaker. "HEY, I'm getting my gun!" That might spook him off too. I think the real problem is if the minx, or raccoon, or coyote or whatever learns that this is a source of food they will go for it. Making it seem more risky just keeps them away longer so they maybe go find another food source instead of yours. The other issue is that sometimes there aren't many food sources and even though you spooked them a bit more than usual, they can still smell those delicious chickens. So now you can use facial recognition on that same stream... all that computer really has to do is stream it to your desktop. And on your desktop you could easily run these and many many many more algorithms. So your computer uses computer vision to identify 'animal' and 'not one of my chickens' and 'not one of my geese' etc. THEN you get an alert. That would be even better because you could have a rule if it detects a rodent vs a rule if it detects another human. Like if it sees a human then it alerts you and you can decide to call the police while grabbing your gun. Or your neighbour. I mean that would be the best defense of all. Good neighbours. "Alright, if any of us see anybody who isn't us we all get our gun and stay in touch". I think that's how nations began. The reason we don't do that today is because there is a much bigger king and we are in his kingdom. But when those kings fight among themselves and leave the masses to die? What happens then?

Could be a she don’t be biod

Bios”

A Ferret was a killer too before it was domesticated, it's a member of the same Mustelidae family, the only difference now is humans do the killing for them via the supermarket meat section.

Certainly 🤣🤣

nature is criminal and ugly

I can't listen to the audio after the first time or two.

Sadly it's nature though :/ Mink are predators.

It's not "nature" if they enter a coop, where a man has gathered his birds. Nature is what happens outside of coops. That mink has deserved a A-24 treatment.

@@SpartanThe300th lol what? No, you think a wild animal gives a damn if it’s on someone’s property, or even realize that they’re trespassing? It’s a wild animal, and it’s gotta eat. That’s literally nature

@@shidposting4011 I take your point. But in that case it might have to deal with the part of the human nature (protection of territory and property).

It was nice of those geese to protect that chick.

Some lessons indeed are learned the hard way. Coop security is now much improved and no further attacks have happened.

He isn’t scared though the mink can kill the geese but it will take a lot of energy that’s why if bathroom was real I would want my personal spirit animal to be a mink

Rooster and geese wouldn't stand a chance to a mink on a mission.

@@jazzcabbage9561 A rooster can engage and fight off hawks, which are way stronger and more dangerous than a mink. And those geese weight up to 4 kg and are very aggressive and territorial, they would have destroyed the mink if able to see it

Love that humor!

Quite horrific. I highly recommend using hardware cloth over chicken wire now.

*back at the barnyard* but still a funny comment

They have terrible eyesight in the dark. They can’t even see where it’s coming from.

they can't see the mink, geese cannot see well in the dark.

@@disasterpieces. True and this is why they instinctively fly up into the trees or coops to roost or stay in the water.

? Sound doesn't break the barrier two times

And def sure it can't break itself

@@thegloriousquran1208 Lol i meant that as a joke

@@vrtualnickk this guy must be fun at parties

I did too!

A mink or other weasel would just eat the geese as well. We lost full grown turkeys to one.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 it’s because geese don’t have very good vision in the dark. A goose would be able to crack a minks spine with a single smack of its wing but unfortunately if the mink grabs it round the neck (which is normally where they aim for) it can’t fight back

Oh god im having bad flashbacks

I think domestic birds can't see at night that is the main problem

@@santos122122 They will look at you but still not run because they are partially asleep. I've had hens peck me when I'm trying to relocate nest, but still not run.

I've tried the lights. White lights for extended hours makes the chickens aggressive to each other. I switched from white to green. It was worse. Then I tried red. The hens all started going broody, made for lots of nest box problems. I like the idea of getting light in the coop to help them see, but haven't found a solution. I'm open to ideas. I've had Barred Rock hens. They are quite bossy with the other hens. I would imagine the roosters would have even more attitude. But take on that mink? 🙈

Dim white lights, Muscovy ducks, and a German Shepherd or Belgian Malinois or concrete footed chicken coop. Would solve all your problems. Personally I would go with the Muscovy ducks along with German shepherd or Belgian Malinois raised from a puppy with your animals. I had a German Shepherd once it had adored my ducks and rabbits. Kittens too. It brought home a couple of kittens whose mother had been run over by a car. The Dog and I raised the Kittens. The dog(his name was Dog) and the two cats(names were Tom and Cat) spent the next 12 years patrolling my land. Usually together, they worked like a team. Never had a single Predator issue after that. They all died within month a of each other. It was so sad I sold my land and move back to the city.

@@StevenPLegere I might give the dim whites a try. Thought of some LEDs at about mid height in the coop, like a string of Christmas lights or something. See real have mentioned the Muscovy ducks. I have put a hardware cloth apron completely around the coop extending out nearly 2 feet, slightly below ground level. Not concrete, but hopefully as effective. I'm sure that was a huge loss after a dozen years with that crew, and all in such a close time frame.

Perhaps a motion detection flood light. It will only be on when activity, they are usually pretty still when asleep. I don't think it will help them though, they will still be killed I expect. They will just be able to see what's coming to them. :(

or how about they put little razors onto the legs of the chicken like they do in cockfighting on tv/movies?? that way, the chicken can slice the mink's throat!! haha! and if that doesn't work, try a better alarm system, a better set up for the barn, guard dogs, etc.

Agreed there.

I understand. I had no idea we even had minks in our area. It seems they have a territory close to a steam or water. We are close to Bull Shoals Lake, and apparently close enough for the minks. We secured the coop with hardware cloth and other means and have had no incidents with minks since. The mink attacks were all at night. Our flock free ranges during the day, but to my knowledge we have never had a loss to a mink outside during the day. I hope you find a solution.

Figs, Pigs and Feathers same here! for years we dealt with every other predator, but then we come across an animal that killed so stealthily, i genuinely thought a demon came through our farm. wiped us clean of 25 chickens (didn't even eat them and didn't leave any blood behind???? just killed them for fun???) and decapitated 4 out of 6 ducks. we live on 12 acres of wooded area with a creek sooo basically the perfect spot for minks! but still, we never dealt with them until now. never even heard any locals talking about them.

@@Mykeynikey22331 horned owl perhaps?

@@N-T.My.T Owls won't kill so many just to do it.

Kit Cor we have n etting over our birds at all times

Was that really necessary to say? Of course they will shore up the coop some more!

@@MrRicomex you have mental ilness ? stop suporting criminals and stop being criminal , if you suport criminal hunters then you are a criminal too for suporting hunter

Like on god 😰😭

We are considering a dog. It is a difficult thing for us to consider since free roaming dogs have killed so many of our chickens over the years. Deer are a problem here too. Two Lips, that deer ate all our tulip blooms, Mimosa ate all the branches and leaves off our mimosa trees the first night we planted them.... and Peaches - yeah, she ate all the peaches off our trees.

Spreading their wings like that is intended to intimidate the attacker by making them appear much larger. Works great when they are chasing the delivery drivers, but not so much the mink.

Figs, Pigs and Feathers mustelidae are a pretty fearless family of animals so it doesn’t surprise me much.

Right On! The mink did get introduced to Mr. Remington. It leaked out.

@Robbie Morgan The mink

Hahaha!!!!

@WaLF the shotgun

@Ryan Guidry We know Ryan. You've already expressed your need, several times, in great detail, for sadistic revenge on little woodland creatures. A little too eager to torture things aren't you?

In fact we did respond. Just took too long to travel the distance and get there before the mink left. It took several attempts, but that mink will not be back. It leaked body fluid all over the chicken yard.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 next time armed your ducks with ak-47s

I didn't thought of that, nice

Those geese would have no chance

Then Why people keeps their chicken away from home,if they unable to hear sound ?

A chicken den that big could also hold a guard dog in there at night too. A dog trained to protect the birds. Lol.

Minsk are bloodthirsty killers. They kill for fun. Just had a mink invade my chicken yard. He was chasing a hen and I yelled at him before running in my house to get my gun. By the time I got back he killed that hen then disappeared.

@@daverich3883 they are invasive here in the UK. People often trap them to protect native critically endangered water voles. One managed to break into my Guinea fowl run and killed them both. I don’t mind foxes and other native predators, but I’m not a fan of mink

Rory O'Connor could of done with a wee Jackie then

@BASED you're just jealous.

Bro just sticks it and dips it

mink is alot more verocious than you think

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And that is exactly what I did. 👍 Would have been better if I had done that from the start. Lesson learned.

I put two electric fences 1 foot and 1.5 ft outside of my coop. Never saw any predators. If you tie some supermarket chicken meat to different locations in the yard and connect them to 48V after the dark, you can also get quite a few animals.

@@panpeter2969 I tried out using the electric fence charger around the coop. I found it caused interference with the wifi signal I use for the automation (pop door, cooling fan, interior and exterior lights, etc.) and it also made noise in the audio portion of the coop camera.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 I had similar issues now that you told me I find out the cause.

Well stated! I've not lost any poultry while they are secured at night. A few free ranging during the day, but secure housing is essential.

Figs, Pigs and Feathers I just wanted to let you know, because of your comment I have subscribed to your channel. I got the idea we may have similar philosophies.

@@smellyolegoat150 Thank you. Hoping to have some more videos up soon.

Certainly seemed that way to me. It did not eat or carry off any of the chickens it killed.

Just like us humans uhm>

Mink and their relatives have a hyper predatory instinct. They simply can't resist their urge.

That is one of the things that is so awful about this.

That's what pisses me off the most, IF he had killed them for food because he was starving I wouldn't care as much.

Yes, and that is the intent of my posting the video. What was secure for us for a few years turned out not to be secure enough. We had no idea minks were even in our area, much less how destructive they are. By sharing our experience hopefully others will understand the predator issue, research their local area, and take measures to achieve good coop security for their chickens or other animals. It is a heartbreaking loss.

Yes, I have added a small red light in the coop. Mostly it helps the guinea fowl to go in to roost at night.

Thank you.🐓👍

When I do I don't celebrate their slaughter because I'm not a psychopath

@@alllifemattershow is this a celebration?? What are you even talking about? It’s educational for folks to see what can happen, as hard as it is to watch. Maybe you’re the psychopath for watching it..

Thank you. I tried several different color lights and found a red light best for the task and it allows for the poultry to better avoid trouble in the coop at night. Improved security on the coop has prevented further predator attacks.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 I'm glad you found a solution to the problem.

That is what they do. Seems after the first one, they sort of go into a frenzy and kill all they can.

i dont think they eat them. They just turn into psychopaths lol

they will eat some of the chicken heads if they feel like it

Foxes will do this too. They can only carry a limited amount, but if they kill them all in one go, chances are the rest will still be there, when they come back....

Such a great outcome! Your chickens survived. Great job!

Absolutely well said. Mink are wonderful fascinating creatures, and although they are outlawed in the UK to own one, I would have a baby one to hand rear tomorrow. Yes you are right, they are terrific natural tatters, that I would welcome, not hunt down.

Or the simple solution: arm the geese. A glock should do lmfao

Mink are wonderful animals, despite their bad press, many by armchair experts. They are only doing what they have to do to survive, and unlike us, they cannot go to the shops to buy meat! I would love a hand reared baby mink as a pet.

@@anythingoldmechanical they are not doing just what they need to do to survive. They kill as a sport for literal fun. They only need about 40% of their body weight. Most minks and weasels hardly way a pound. So he should need only 1 not the entire flock right? Have you become that soft and weak Gary? If we humans lived in the wild you would have been taken out by a pack of prairie dogs with how weak your survival skills are.

Good, I hate those little shits.

They're just doing what they do. They're predators and kill.

Oh boy the social justice wariors are going to come for you😄

HIIIPOWER 000 they ate ur chicks and u ate the minks .its equal. so calm down

IR light from the camera. Low watt LED red lamp in the coop all night now has helped the flock better see at night without too much disturbance.

@@figspigsandfeathers8179 you're a disgusting owner. You should have had better protection for these trapped animals

Duck has night vision.

@@rayromano6249 Relax dude

@@franticzenster8140 why would you tell someone to relax from a 3wk old comment. Do you honestly think I'm fuming as of the time you wrote the comment lol. Its something a child would say 👍

🙂👍We have some birds of prey here as well. Cooper and Redtail hawks, a few Bald Eagles, and various owls. Eagles will fly low over the coop yard, but have never bothered with the flock. I suspect they are well fed from fish in the White river where they nest. Redtail hawks are a threat year round. Cooper hawks are smaller and like your situation, they only get the chicks. I now keep them in the run to around 8 weeks old so they are big enough. From first frost until last frost seems to be the predator season here. As the leaves fall from the trees, the hawks become more aggressive. I usually add plenty of places where the flock can run and get cover during those months. That seems to have helped the most.

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Figs, Pigs and Feathers if it was day time would the roosters have done anything?

I've heard of mink killing beaver

Maybe a little teeny baby Beaver! Adult and sub-adult beavers are far too big! I have seen some pretty big beavers run away from my mink though, but she posed no threat to them, just enough of an annoyance to make them run. Mink do however kill muskrats, which are quite large prey when compared to the mink. I have been hunting and fishing with trained mink for many years now. They are very serious predators that's for sure! The mink in this video was very timid and unsure of itself. I've seen mink that would have killed the geese first!

That's about as scary as flying spiders