Mink

It's easy to understand why mink have been killed for their fur. They eat chickens.

Actually, they don't even eat the whole chicken. They drag the poor things off their perches then chew their heads off leaving a disgusting headless heap of fresh chicken on the floor of the hen house.

In the summer we had 8 hens all producing beautiful brown eggs. We lost one in the early fall, and just weeks later were devastated to find one morning that 5 of the remaining 7 had met their fate the same horrible way. After setting out the live trap hubby did indeed catch 2 angry, nasty little mink. Horrid things, I'm thinking they actually deserve to be made into coats.