{"id":2593,"date":"2016-07-03T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T11:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/?p=2593"},"modified":"2016-07-03T11:30:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-03T11:30:06","slug":"pig-yard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/2016\/07\/03\/pig-yard\/","title":{"rendered":"Pig Yard"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pig yard really needed help.\u00a0 Jon knew he needed to separate the male from the females and the female mamas from the other females and from\u00a0the young weaned piglets\u00a0.\u00a0 They had all lived together in an area where there is a natural spring so water and mud and vegetation are available year round.\u00a0 Things were a little scarce in the summer, but still adequate.\u00a0 But as our pig population has grown\u00a0and continues to grow we needed some major changes.<\/p>\n

Then\u00a0in the middle of the olive\u00a0harvest, a mama pig had a litter.\u00a0The mama squished a few in the night as she slept, and the eagles had a few for dinner, and\u00a0then mama\u00a0abandoned the last two. One little one died, but the other I was able to rescue.\u00a0 The small chicken house became the piglets home.\u00a0 I took it milk and food and gave it scrap wool to nest in.\u00a0 It liked to be held and have it’s head scratched.\u00a0 It grew.\u00a0 It took to scrounging in the dirt and trying to eat anything it could.\u00a0 It came when it heard voices or the sound of the dog collars jingling and would talk at everyone.\u00a0 Even our guys liked to scratch the piglet and talk to it.\u00a0 We had a pet piglet!\u00a0 I can now totally understand why someone would think a pigmy pig would be a delight.\u00a0 But, when our little guy got big enough and was tearing up the chicken yard and went under the fence to the rooster area and ate everything in sight, it was time for him to go home.\u00a0 The guys took him back to the pig yard.\u00a0 He is doing fine.<\/p>\n

Jon had a plan and the guys were beginning to construct fencing when the pig yard turned into a lake with the heavy rains of our early winter.\u00a0 Luckily, there were high places for them to get out of the flow of the water, so no harm done.\u00a0 The first issue was to get the feed out of the mud.\u00a0 They built a raised platform to set everything on.\u00a0 It will eventually have a roof and sides; it is a work in progress.<\/p>\n

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The guys built new fencing to separate the old pig yard into four new separate yards.\u00a0 Also a new yard was built at the bottom of part of the olive plantation that is really too wet for the olives but ideal for the pigs.\u00a0 This new area is used for the weaned piglets.\u00a0 Here is the view of the new pig area.<\/p>\n

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We can walk and get the truck between each of the pen locations.<\/p>\n

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The pig yard is located next to a creek and a lake\u00a0between our two varieties of olive tress, so they are in the back part of the farm on the other side of a hill from the houses.\u00a0 Which is why I probably think they are so cute.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pig yard really needed help.\u00a0 Jon knew he needed to separate the male from the females and the female mamas from the other females and from\u00a0the young weaned piglets\u00a0.\u00a0 They had all lived together in an area where there is a natural spring so water and mud and vegetation are available year round.\u00a0 Things … Continue reading Pig Yard<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34327803,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23195],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pigs","without-featured-image"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6BeCJ-FP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34327803"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapiccolinauy.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}