A friend of mine who keeps a few chickens had a nocturnal visit from a mink a few weeks ago, the two surviving chickens were so traumatised so had put then down. That's nature for you. A hungry predictor will eat anything, and sometimes kill more than they can eat as does a fox.
Mink are known to kill just for the sake of killing. Foxes will bury kills when there's a glut but mink are just little bastards.
Foxes get a bad press imo. If a fox gets into a chicken coop they tend to kill them all in one go. This, in the fox's mind is sensible as he knows he has plenty of food to feed his family & where to go to get it. Furthermore he doesn't have to go out everynight & graft to get it.
My brother is a fisherman and he's often had the same meltdown about them and Cormorants - absolutely cause havoc in the fishing world!! Although they don't bother me!!!
A fox killed all my lawn mowers in one go. .fox,mink.coypu,cormorant ,grey squirrel,signal crayfish ,zander,munkjack, and the list goes on its enormous none indigenous to our island and all doing untold damage.
Maybe he doesn't agree with you, you're like a farmer Mussolini, we live in a diverse nation now Stu, you should be proud of the fact that all of these non-indigenous species have chosen to come and live in our country. The grey squirrels are welcome to live here in my opinion, as long as they do not come for free nuts, and expect to have a little wooden hut in somebody's garden, just given to them the moment they turn up. They're very peaceful animals, apart from the extremist ones.
Not true tel they are very unwelcome as well ,our own red squirrel population are close to the brink of extinction, feed the greys with lead until all gone
Well that was clearly wasted on you. Animals, of this nature, red, grey, pink, otters squirrels, not interested. Natural selection.
