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From: Meghan James
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Mansfield, IL
Do you have any advice for keeping a bloodthirsty mink away from my poultry? It has slit the throats of all my hens, and now it is going after the ducks. Attempts to mink-proof the coop have failed.

 
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From: Laura Kammin
Visiting Extension Specialist, Pollution Prevention
Extension-Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
lkammin@illinois.edu
I'd hire a nuisance wildlife control operator to trap and remove the animal. If it has killed multiple birds, you are going to have a very hard time keeping it out of the coop.

 
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