Conversation from people in a rural area:You may want to check your local leash laws. Here, every county and municipality has leash laws.
Dog owner: "There is no leash law here"
Chicken owner: "On my property there is"
(I'm thinking of a specific case, and that one turned out okay. The dog would not come when called, and trampled part of a vegetable garden before it was caught, but after that it left with the owner and was never again seen off-leash near that property.)