As weird as it sounds I believe I’m going to keep our older female Tu-tu and slaughter the younger, smaller females that have farrowed. This would seem like a really odd decision except…these two smaller sows have had horrible problems free ranging. Grass seeds get into their eyes and I’ve been battling a lot of eye infections in them. I’ve had to lock them up 24\/7 as a result. I decided I really didn’t want to breed pigs susceptible to eye problems so we are selling all of the young and eating the sows. I don’t believe other people will have the same problem with the eyes as I have had as I’m fairly certain I’m the only person ever to free range their pigs here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So Ads are up for the piglets and we are excited to see them go to their new homes. Wish us luck!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Surprise, baby #3 is on the way. Due in Nov\/Dec with another girl. If how much she moves right now is any indication, we’re in for it! This pregnancy has been very hard on my physically. I feel generally unwell a lot. My veins in my leg are really swollen and painful. It’s really prevented … Continue reading “Pig plans and expecting a baby”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[579,615,616,39,2,431,4,588,374],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/67404499_10157381474338633_4188013431984488448_n.jpg?fit=960%2C960&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JivI-UG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3527,"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3514\/revisions\/3527"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peacockorchard.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}