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Sheep Producer Raven Predation Survey

The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (OMAFRA) is conducting a survey to better understand the magnitude of raven predation on sheep in the province. We are looking to develop benchmarks, increase awareness and hopefully provide some thoughts on mitigation strategies. 
Please fill in the following survey for your sheep operation only. There is also a version of this survey specifically for beef farmers. If you are a beef farmer and are interested in filling out the survey, please follow the link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VQGJ65W 
This survey will take approximately 10 minutes. 
This survey is anonymous. You will have the option to provide your name and contact information, in which case it will remain confidential. 
In this survey we will be asking for basic production information and raven predation data from the 2017 calendar year to the current date. If you do not know the answer to a question, feel free to skip it. 
Thank you very much for your time and honesty in completing this survey - it is greatly appreciated. If you would like to see the aggregate results of this survey, it will be published in the Ontario Sheep News Magazine. 

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* 1. Which county in Ontario do you live in?

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* 2. What Ontario Sheep Farmers District do you live in?

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* 3. Approximately how many ewes do you have?

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* 4. Approximately how many total lambs do you produce over a year?

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* 5. What is your lambing schedule?

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* 6. Where do you lamb? (Check all that apply)

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* 7. Where have you observed ravens on your farm? (Check all that apply)

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* 8. What time of the year do you lamb? (Check all that apply)

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* 9. Approximately how many raven sightings did you observe on your farm in 2018? (Can be the same raven)

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* 10. Do you have a breeding pair of ravens on your farm?

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* 11. Do the ravens return to your farm every year?

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* 12. Do you observe or see evidence of ravens scavenging farm deadstock?

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* 13. Do you experience raven predation on your farm? (Includes injuries and kills)

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* 14. Do you experience any other avian predation? (Check all that apply)

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* 15. How many kills occurred on your farm in each of the following years:

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* 16. How many injuries occurred on your farm in the following years:

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* 17. Where do most of your kills or injuries occur?

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* 18. What killing/injuring methods do you observe? (Check all that apply)

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* 19. Approximately how many raven kills and injuries occurred in each month in 2018?

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* 20. What time of day do most of the kills or injuries occur? (Select one)

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* 21. What is the most common age group of the killed animals?

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* 22. What is the most common age group of the injured animals?

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* 23. How many approved claims have you had for raven predation from the Ontario Wildlife Damage Compensation Program in the following years?

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* 24. Have you had injuries or kills for raven predation that you have not submitted for claims in 2018?

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* 25. How much extra time in a year do you spend on preventing/mitigating raven predation over and  above any other predation mitigation?

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* 26. What raven protection/deterring measures do your have in place on your farm? (Check all that apply)

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* 27. Do you have success with deterring ravens? If so, which methods are successful?

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* 28. If you have seen a raven attack an animal, which of the following did you observe?

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* 29. What is your expected economic loss resulting from raven predation with in a year?

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* 30. Please rate the emotional toll or stress that raven predation on your sheep/lambs has caused you and your family.

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* 31. Is your farms expansion being held back as a result of raven predation?

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* 32. Please add any additional comments in the space below:

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* 33. Would you be interested in participating in future surveys for other avian predation studies?

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