so how many mink pelts to make a fur coat??

[gonebananas]

Arrived at the stables this morning rather disheartened to find my 6 7 weeks old chickens had gone. Later found a small hole a mink had made through the mesh and taken them We know it wasn't a fox as there wasn't enough carnage feathers etc. Looks like I'm having a new coat this winter!

This is the work of animal rights activists a couple of decades ago who decided to release the mink from a fur farm near the dual carriage way near a place called Elland between Huddersfield and Halifax, this resulted in all the local wildlife been depleated such as rabbits and watervoles etc, we've only just been able to start getting numbers up in some areas in recent years. Now they've eaten my chucks

So R.I.P my 6 chucks, the two cocks Notorious B*st***, Basil and the 4 girls, Maude, Madeline, Caroline and Matilda

The joys of country life!

 

[JanetGeorge]

For a full length coat, about 55! Sorry about your chickens!

 

[ThePinkPony]

Not enough!!!

Sorry about your chickens (although it could have been a polecat, mink are quite destructive from what ive seen, poleys are much sneakier).

But yes, mink are horrible horrible creatures.

Thanks Anti's, the only thing you are good at is fecking up ecosystems.

 

[JenHunt]

I agree TPP... the one thing they are good for is messing up ecosystems and food chains.

Mink can be very destructive, but they don't usually create the mess that a fox would. Polecats are much more like weasel in as much as they'll kill one or two and come back for the others later.

sorry to hear about your chooks OP - they're such fun to have around aren't they! We had a bantam cockerel that had a penchant for ladies in tights, and would chase you down the drive if there was half a chance of him getting his spurs into them!

p.s....

what's the difference between a stoat and a weasel?




One's w'easily recognised, the other is stoat'ally different!

 

[ThePinkPony]

p.s....

what's the difference between a stoat and a weasel?




One's w'easily recognised, the other is stoat'ally different!

Oh for gods... i was just about to explain to you as well...

Do you know you just brought up very painful school memories... first day, very sexy geography teacher... Why cant polar bears eat penguins?...

...fecking miss national geographic here... hand up... well polar bears are actually from the opposite pole to penguins..blah blah blah...

actually dear, its because they cant get the wrappers off................

 

[Millyard Rejects]

p.s....

what's the difference between a stoat and a weasel?




One's w'easily recognised, the other is stoat'ally different!

lol...

Having seen the damage my ferret can do to a raw chicken wing for his supper.. I would hate to see what he could do to my girls!
the rooster id probably help him with as he is the nastiest git on the planet
sorry for your chucks OP- I have a hen that was sat on eggs and a rat managed to get in to her clutch. total mess and poor hen was still trying to sit even though eggs were damaged. found cat in nest box a day later and was just about to scream at him when I found hed caught the rat
so im in process of building a new house for the nesting hens.

 

[TJP]

Sorry to hear about your chicks. Bleeding anti's!!

 

[gonebananas]

Thanks for your replies guys! I'm just glad my duck is still at home under the lamp, shes an Indian Runner called Quackers Here's some photos

Love the joke Jen and I was thinking more of a short coat

Yes another good workings of the anti's!!!

 

[YasandCrystal]

Yes vermin, but make lovely jackets! My daughter has a vintage one that she always gets complimented on and when she is asked if it's real she says 'no of course not' to avoid a black eye!

 

[Mrs B]

A stoat can be easily
Told from a weasel
By the simple fact
That its tail is blacked
And its figure
Is slightly the bigger.

(Sorry about your chooks...)

 

[gonebananas]

Yes vermin, but make lovely jackets! My daughter has a vintage one that she always gets complimented on and when she is asked if it's real she says 'no of course not' to avoid a black eye!

Or potentially worse, paint thrown all over the coat is an anti favorite I hear!!

 

[combat_claire]

what's the difference between a stoat and a weasel?




One's w'easily recognised, the other is stoat'ally different!

Why don't seagulls fly over bays?

Because then they would be bagels (you have to read it out!)

 

[JenHunt]

Why don't seagulls fly over bays?

Because then they would be bagels (you have to read it out!)

I'm quite blonde... that took me quite a while. But once I got it....

 

[Fiagai]

loveit! some silly joke time!



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I'll be back in a bit!

 

[Luci07]

love the jokes! and sorry about the chooks. I came off the fence about foxes many many years ago after I lost the pet cockerel (Von Spreckledsen!) and most of his ladies to the fox getting in.

Would quite like to have a couple of chooks again, but not sure how on earth I can (SAFELY) keep a couple when I already have 2 staffie terriers who view anything with wings as fair game (unless they are after a ball then it's... pheasant, ball, pheasant.. ball always wins!)