BERTHOUD — If you look at its little face, with its delicate whiskers, fluffy cheeks and tiny nose, you may not see the features of a fearsome killer.
But the mink was caught Tuesday night or Wednesday morning at the scene of a grisly crime, where the feathered bodies of its victims still littered the ground.
“It looked like somebody came in here and did a massacre,” Kathy Busch said of the scene in the barn Monday and Tuesday.
The trapped mink screeched at anyone who got too close to the trap, then eventually laid its head on the feathers of the chicken in its cage and dozed while waiting for a Colorado Division of Wildlife officer to pick it up.
Busch believes the mink is one of two or more that killed 25 chickens on her Berthoud farm from Sunday to Tuesday, and 18 of her 22 doves have recently been killed.
