Can you do guineafowl? You won’t have a tick on your place! They are also good ‘alarm’ birds, from what I hear.
“Guineafowl are a low-maintenance flock that can be raised in small and backyard flocks. Flocks of guineas can kill and eat mice and small rats, as well as control insects such as wood ticks, grasshoppers, flies, and crickets.”
Was thinking about them the other day actually. Thinking about where I could put them. They say you can pen them in for a while and when let loose, they’ll go back to that area every night and sleep up in the trees. I hear they’re loud and some people can’t stand their “voice”/sound.
Guinea Fowl Calls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jmw9_N1yloA
Starts out with one and then two of them get going at 45 seconds in.