If you have chickens, the chances for attracting rodents is fairly high. They’re looking for food and chicken feed is easy pickin’s.
The Imperfectly Happy Homesteading offers common sense tips on how to keep the pests out without too much effort on your part. Remembering to put feed away is crucial, so you’ll have to remember to do that daily. But planting deterrents, safeguarding the coop, and having “back up” will all help keep them at bay: