Food

The food that themink eat in the wild consists of small rodents such as mice, rats and evenrabbits. Mink are very good swimmers and also have fish, crayfish and aquaticbirds on their menu. They are good hunters and hunt everything they can catch.They hunt mostly at night and aquatic birds are easy prey then.

Food in captivityis a different story. There is no such thing as mink food in the pet shops.Some people give mink ferret food or cat food, if they already eat it, it isnot a problem but it is not a suitable food source as there is too much salt init and mink can develop kidney problems. Our mink won’t even look at ferretfood or cat food.

The best food youcan feed a mink is the same food it would get on a mink farm. It is a smellymush but contains everything that a mink needs. This food is speciallydeveloped for mink, the breeders are obliged to provide the best food because asick mink cannot develop a beautiful fur.

We get our foodfrom a mink breeder for free. The mush is frozen and divided into portions. Weput a frozen portion in her run every night and it is gone in the morning. Inthis way, we are not bothered by the smell.

We have triedfeeding her chicks, mice and rats, but she just hid these in the strangestplaces and they just rotted away. She will eat raw chicken legs or drumsticksand she loves fish.

The best optionis to find a friendly mink breeder to supply you with food. It costs himnothing as he gets the food delivered in silos and you don’t have to go sooften because you can freeze the food.

Our mink is inthe house every evening and is discovering that crisps, sandwich toppings andsweets are also tasty and that begging sometimes helps. She often stands on herhind legs behind us when we open the fridge to see if someone is going to makea sandwich.