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I worry the most about the song birds and my fly tying roosters getting lice. I do everything I can to keep things neat and I don't throw scratch or anything on the ground but come winter they are all around anyway.Owls still visit me even with fencing up but they are after the mice. As soon as owl starts actually landing on pens the chickens get riled and dogs go inside fencing area to push owl out. Owl seems to have learned how not to stir chickens. One of the days the dogs will catch another owl, we caught one a couple winters back. If that happens again I will turn it in to our biologist so they can do something with it.
Mice and voles and them darn little songbirds are biggest problems because they can eat a big chunk of feed.