Thank you for the invite. I live in MT and have chickens, turkeys and my muscovy ducks.
I also raise meat rabbits.
All of my birds are locked up at night because of skunks, as well as stray dogs. During the day the chickens are in a run with a wire top. The turkeys are in a part of the field. But my ducks are turned loose in the yard. But blocked off of the porch. For some reason it always seems that birds always love the porch. So we have it blocked.