Agriculture - Barns - Farming - Livestock

Feb. 28 Every girl likes Mink - but this one prefers them alive.: Every girl likes mink, although miss Nancy Hicks does too, unlike most girls she has enough mink to make her quite a number of coats - but they are all alive, at the father's mink farm at Totteridge Green, North London, Miss Hicks locks after 450 minks, and its a whole time job for they need feeding twice a day. A male pelt earns about £8 and its winter thickness and a female £4. And it takes about 60 mink to make a coat. But its not really the pelts that make the money, it's the mink itself which are sold for export. Nancy first become interested in mink, when at the age of fourteen and recovering from an illness, her father saw a mink farm on television and decided the fascinating creatures would soon out Nancy oon the mend, so he bought her 30 as a gift. Now Nancy is 21 years old and for the past 3 years has been breeding and looking after the mink herself. One of the minks, Miss Hicks keeps as her own special pet called'Joe, he is 5 months old and she rescued him because he was so ugly'. Joe goes everywhere with Miss Hicks at the end of a blue leash

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