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chicken keeping Archives · Updates from Ryder Family Farm https://harvestofdailylife.com/tag/chicken-keeping/ A southern Illinois family farm- sowing the seed of tomorrow, savoring the fruits of yesterday Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:03:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://harvestofdailylife.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/cropped-Ryder-Family-Farm-Dancing-Kids-mockup_1024-32x32.jpg chicken keeping Archives · Updates from Ryder Family Farm https://harvestofdailylife.com/tag/chicken-keeping/ 32 32 Wildlife Encounters on the Homestead: The American Mink https://harvestofdailylife.com/wildlife-encounters-on-the-homestead-the-american-mink/ https://harvestofdailylife.com/wildlife-encounters-on-the-homestead-the-american-mink/#respond Sat, 04 Apr 2015 15:28:45 +0000 http://www.harvestofdailylife.com/?p=11128 My little farm girl found a mink this morning… a live one in our chicken coop. It was snacking on the necks of 8 ducklings and two chickens. It looked at her and stayed perfectly still. She ran to the house to alert me. I accompanied her to the chicken coop where it still was […]

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My little farm girl found a mink this morning… a live one in our chicken coop.

It was snacking on the necks of 8 ducklings and two chickens. It looked at her and stayed perfectly still. She ran to the house to alert me.

I accompanied her to the chicken coop where it still was happily munching the birds. “Hand me that board” I told her as I crept closer to whacking range. First I snapped a photo:

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For a long while there was a stare down between me and the mink, then I went at it with the 4×4 board and failed. It still didn’t run off so I grabbed a kitty litter bin that was nearby and set it to catch the bugger. I managed to get it to walk in my bin and as I tried to close it in it jumped over my hand and took off. If I only had a hand gun…

Guess it’s time to bait some traps & clean up some dead birds before we take the girls to the town easter egg hunt. Then maybe we can buy a few more ducks while we are out and about…

Poor ducklings 🙁

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