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Post by trappincoyotes39 on Dec 9, 2013 17:59:44 GMT -6
Question would be how does the DNA stay relative with the turnover of a species like a mink? Your going to loose that ranch DNA as it gets watered down by more wild mink to wild mink breeding. Unless you had a mass release of ranch mink over a period of time? If you can locate the link Matt I would love to read that study for real!
Nick the question would be what is an old mink?
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Post by trappincoyotes39 on Dec 9, 2013 18:03:46 GMT -6
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Post by blackhammer on Dec 9, 2013 18:31:02 GMT -6
Interesting to note Nick how most focus on the coon and let all else go by. I know it is not as efficient to multi-species trap but I enjoy that type of trapping the most as that was what I did when first starting in the early 1960s and it just feels good to me yet today. Right where I live and trap we don't have nearly as many of the small streams the come out of the ridges that will attract mink but not so many coons. Our coons are associated more early with corn as we harvest 80% of our corn as silage and or high moisture and then the coons scatter to buildings etc. We don't have many oaks here in our eastern deciduious forest so their are not as many coons on the ridges eating acorns as in western WI and eastern Mn etc. We don't have nearly as many larger older cottonwood river bottoms either and thus fewer tree dens. Abandoned buildings are very commonly used and we have many of those being buried every year now as farms consolidate and owners destroy them to get them off the tax rolls. Bryce My multi species trapline is very efficent. I catch very good numbers of rats and coon. My mink catch also is very good. As the season progresses I wack quite a few beaver and even early I will set for the ones right by the bridges someone else would get. This year with our coon and rat pops off a lot I throw a few fox sets in the mix and picked up a few. I travel a good number of miles on my line but I don't like to drive by any fur. It takes little time and no gas to add fur to the pile. Having the land season opening before the water helps me get many coon out of the way early. As water opens I really look hard for rats right away and quickly start adding mink pockets as the first week goes on and the mink get a little primer. If I lived in the mink country of western Mn or in areas of heavy rat numbers or in se Pa's fox country I would do things different but my system is well suited for where I trap. |
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Post by mattduncan on Dec 9, 2013 20:59:06 GMT -6
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Post by mattduncan on Dec 9, 2013 21:00:38 GMT -6
Interesting to note Nick how most focus on the coon and let all else go by. I know it is not as efficient to multi-species trap but I enjoy that type of trapping the most as that was what I did when first starting in the early 1960s and it just feels good to me yet today. Right where I live and trap we don't have nearly as many of the small streams the come out of the ridges that will attract mink but not so many coons. Our coons are associated more early with corn as we harvest 80% of our corn as silage and or high moisture and then the coons scatter to buildings etc. We don't have many oaks here in our eastern deciduious forest so their are not as many coons on the ridges eating acorns as in western WI and eastern Mn etc. We don't have nearly as many larger older cottonwood river bottoms either and thus fewer tree dens. Abandoned buildings are very commonly used and we have many of those being buried every year now as farms consolidate and owners destroy them to get them off the tax rolls. Bryce My multi species trapline is very efficent. I catch very good numbers of rats and coon. My mink catch also is very good. As the season progresses I wack quite a few beaver and even early I will set for the ones right by the bridges someone else would get. This year with our coon and rat pops off a lot I throw a few fox sets in the mix and picked up a few. I travel a good number of miles on my line but I don't like to drive by any fur. It takes little time and no gas to add fur to the pile. Having the land season opening before the water helps me get many coon out of the way early. As water opens I really look hard for rats right away and quickly start adding mink pockets as the first week goes on and the mink get a little primer. If I lived in the mink country of western Mn or in areas of heavy rat numbers or in se Pa's fox country I would do things different but my system is well suited for where I trap. It sounds as if we trap very similar terrain and animal populations |
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Post by trappnman on Dec 10, 2013 8:11:43 GMT -6
multi specie line-
my M.O. as well
this year I got 9 different furbearers on the boards-
but what is really hard for me, is to run a multi envirnment line, that is, I have a real hard time running both land and water at the same time.
now- if both had a 3 day check.......
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Post by braveheart on Dec 11, 2013 6:06:06 GMT -6
It take a pile of gear to work both water and land.And it makes for slow going.
Marty
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Post by blackhammer on Dec 11, 2013 7:57:22 GMT -6
Dry dps and 220s work fine with water but to run a large numbers of dirt sets would be slow. I ran a few dirts sets right on my route that I thought there were fox in the area and it didn't slow me down any more than a water stop. No long drives down field roads or anything like that.
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Post by braveheart on Dec 12, 2013 5:36:35 GMT -6
Running Dp's and 220 and dry land coyotes is ok.But to run water and coyote is slow.It is hard to find a jacket that you can put gloves over.I always have the hip boots on even dirt trapping but just got some irrigation boots they work super.
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