I have been feeding wild birds for so long don't even know how long, but my question is I will feel awful if I have to stop feeding them since they depend on me for food during the winter months, But I've heard that they can give my chickens disease's which I don't want either. Does anyone else feed the wild birds and still keep chickens and ducks or other fowl? The wild birds would still come around and eat out of the chickens feed bowl I've seen them. There is no place I can put my feeder where the chickens and ducks don't go they free range most of the day. Thanks for imput