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I've personally encountered one rabid animal in all my years. It was a bat that circled around me for around 20 minutes and then landed on me and attempted to climb into my clothes for around 10 minutes. It was a freaky experience but I wasn't bit or scratched at all So rabies encounters = 1...

Most of the stuff I hear about rabies strikes me as fear mongering for the pharmaceutical industry to make more money. Rabies has a 100% lethality rate, I doubt it's anywhere near as common as they claim Most wild animals aren't disease riddled zombies

According to wikipedia- It's an incredibly common parasite that most humans will never notice even they're fully infected

I have 3 cats and 2 dogs that live around my chickens 24/7 with zero danger to my chickens. The process to set this up was very simple: bring the animals here as babies and have them grow up around the chickens I wouldn't attempt this with various breeds of dog, but it seems to work perfectly...

Even better would be to live in harmony with the foxes rather than fight against nature forever. Modern chicken keeping that turns the entire planet into an enemy is nonsensical Chickens have been domesticated for 10,000 years now, since the early neolithic age

I have a large fox den on my land as well as 50 free range chickens that live outside 24/7 and sleep in trees. Healthy chicken breeds should be able to evade foxes with no problem. Red foxes really aren't sneaky enough to catch gamefowl, feral chickens and landraces Dogs and fences also help...