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Glad that it works for you, heelers are great dogs, but just as the name says, they are by no means livestock guardian dogs. Lgds are not interested in the animals they guard, though they occasional smell at their butt, as they do with the cats. Though quite sometimes the lay more or less next...

Indeed, our lgds seem to treat about 100 m from each corner of the house as theirs, which is about 10 acres. Though there are zero fences here and luckily no others buildings in that area. The dogs don't go away if we are not home, they stay with the chickens that are free ranging all day. If we...

Indeed, we had the problem when we had only one lgd, after they are two this isn't a big issue, though from time to time they visit the next neighbour.

Real livestock guardian dog do not "kill clean and quick", it seems you watched to many Hollywood movies? Good lgds are much to clever and will never simply attack some predator, but mostly distract them by barking, which can be quite different depending on the kind of predator. Yes if nothing...

This is one of our two guardians (eating some meat in the snow) for the chickens and everything else: Both together distract anything looking into getting some of our chickens...;-)