{"id":292309,"date":"2025-11-15T02:13:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292309\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T02:13:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T02:13:14","slug":"bison-put-down-after-escape-from-derby-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/292309\/","title":{"rendered":"Bison put down after escape from Derby farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">DERBY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A correction to a story we brought you earlier Friday about a bison on the loose. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bison that escaped from a Northeast Kingdom farm did not make it back to its enclosure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Video of the bison, which escaped from Nelson Farm in Derby, showed it wandering through a Derby neighborhood earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Videos made the rounds on social media of the large ungulate wandering through people\u2019s yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Unfortunately, game wardens told us that the farm had to euthanize the bison for safety reasons after the farm tried to get it back inside the fence, and it became aggressive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier, we reported that the bison was alive and returned safely to the farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Earlier Friday, we reported the bison was alive after getting a message from Derby State Representative Richard Nelson saying the bison was \u201call back same day\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">We regret the confusion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DERBY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; A correction to a story we brought you earlier Friday about a bison on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":292310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[15627,141224,153138,153139,132385,79,27076,34752,201],"class_list":["post-292309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bison","tag-escape","tag-irasburg","tag-nelson-farms","tag-northeast-kingdom","tag-science","tag-vermont","tag-wcax","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=292309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/292309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=292309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=292309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=292309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}