A city agency is dealing with residents who are actively undoing its efforts to control a growing wild chicken problem.

• The Department of Customer Services says people have tampered with traps set up in problem areas.
• Some of those same people have let trapped chickens go free.
• Others keep feeding the wild flocks even though parks have signs asking people not to.
• The sabotage is making it harder for the city to shrink the feral chicken population.

Outlook: Without cooperation from residents, the feral chicken population is likely to keep growing despite the city's trapping efforts.