Outdoor cats. Rodents can’t get in your house if they can’t get near your house. Our chickens were also pretty mean to mice but that was kinda hit or miss given the bird… but they LOVED bugs. We never had to use pest control chemicals. Mini goats ate the weeds and leaf litter.
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How many outdoor cats do you recommend?
What kind of rodents?
Where are they getting into? Pantry, general house, root cellar?
Mainly under the chicken coop. They can’t get in anymore because I buried in hardware fabric but I still see tunnels popping up with them trying to
Sounds like voles.