fur farm

American  

noun

1. a farm on which animals, as minks, are raised for their pelts.

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Other Word Forms

• fur farming noun

Etymology

Origin of fur farm

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

H5N1 is also presumed to have spread among mink on a fur farm in Spain.

From New York Times

Hundreds of farmed mink are wandering through central Pennsylvania after escaping from a nearby fur farm, according to Pennsylvania State Police.

From Salon

Yet there are two problems with concluding that this proves domestication theory, as the 2020 paper pointed out: First, it ignores how Belyayev used foxes bought from a fur farm, and who therefore may have already had preselected traits.

From Salon

Early last October, the mink on a fur farm in Spain suddenly began to fall ill.

From New York Times

Before the pandemic, he had visited a fur farm in Finland and described the "suffering of animals and what goes on there is incomprehensible".

From BBC