For detection of chickens and such, you could likely use Frigate NVR paired with a hardware accelerated gpu for deception based on algorithms.
https://docs.frigate.video/configuration/objects/
It has birds as an option in the builtin object detections so maybe that would pick up a chicken!
CAT6E CMR STP CMR so you’re future proofed…
It’s really not much more than standard CAT6 and so much better long term…