We fenced one and a half acres of our backyard for our dogs and chickens and ducks. I receive so much love and enjoyment from them. I love to sit under our big live oak and watch everyone play.
We rescue dogs. Out of the 11 we only bought the pit. We traded 5 chicks for the husky but she's hard to break and has killed one of our hens and attacked a rooster. I was able to rescue the rooster and he recovered nicely.
I have 11 dogs and the only one we can't break from our chickens is our husky. My pit, pug mixes, terrier mixes, and lab pretty much ignores the birds.