To keep my Mals in their pens, I have to run electric fence wire along the top of the fence and have wooden pallets along the botom to keep them from digging out. They are extreme escape artists and love to run long distances.
They also so love the cold. They would rather sleep outside in the...
NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No "Northern" breed of dog (sled dog) would be a good chicken guardian. I have Malamutes. They kill chickens. A high prey drive has been bred into these type of dogs for hundreds of years.