Press Photo Every girl likes mink but this one prefers them alive

Every girl likes mink - but this one prefers them alive.: Every girl likes mink, and 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 her father's mink farm at Totteridge Green, North London, Miss Hicks looks after 450 minks, and its a whole time job for they need feeding twice a day. A male pelt earns about £8 at its winter thickness and a female £4. and it takes about 60 mink to make a coat. Bit its not really the pelts that make the money, it's the mink themselves which are sold for export. Nancy first became interested in mink, when at the age of fourteen and revocering from all illness, her father saw a mink farm on television and decided the fascinating creatures would soon out 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 kiss Hicks at the end of a blue leash. Photo shows "Joe", kiss Hick's pet mink even has his own swimming pool. It is a large tank and is attached to his cage.

Photo measures 8 x 10.25 inches.

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