Ooooo... Irish are on my short list of dream dogs for when my elderly very large dogs snore their last (they're asleep right now: 15 YO Chesepeake Cow Retriever and her 16 YO Aussie/Border Collie father).
So, what kind of chickens do you have?
Right now I've got a hodgepodge. All 5 week old babies, I've been out of poultry (almost entirely) for about 3-5 years but I went to the Prairie Hatcher 4-H auction and bought a bunch of chicks just to support the club that was so great to me way back when. There's a lot of Dark Brahma bantams in the brooders, a lot of White Polish in both sizes, some of what I hope are White Langshan large fowl, a pair of Silver Campines, what looks like a pair of Gray Dorkings, and some other stuff 62 chicks in all, but most of them won't be staying long term, just bought to support club. I will keep some of the Brahma and Polish, and definitely the Langshans if they turn out, I'm undecided on the rest. I'd prefer to specialize in rare large fowl and am hoping in the next couple years to acquire and focus on Langshan (might have some already!), Chanteclers (hard to find) and White Faced Black Spanish (ditto) The rest will be side operations of whatever strikes my fancy. I'm used to having a lot of birds around and have been missing them greatly the last few years.
As far as Irish goes, his biggest flaw (other than the whole terrier thing of always needing to be fenced or leashed) is that I can't trust him to not kill birds, otherwise fantastic dog and personality
