MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is urging people raising chickens for eggs or meat to install electric fencing and take other precautions to protect their birds from ...

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The state is seeking more funding to finish replacing an old, rusty fence that surrounds the sprawling Kanaha Pond State Wildlife Sanctuary with predator-proof fencing to keep rats, cats, mongoose and ...

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Regan Williams is a backyard chicken keeper living deep in bear country. Williams, his wife and two sons live on forested acreage nestled in the Chugach Mountains in South Anchorage. Rabbit Creek ...

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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) - The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is urging people raising chickens for eggs or meat to install electric fencing and take other precautions to protect their birds from ...