{"id":2336,"date":"2013-06-22T11:17:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-22T15:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=2336"},"modified":"2013-06-23T10:04:11","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T14:04:11","slug":"peek-a-boo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/peek-a-boo\/","title":{"rendered":"Peek-a-boo&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130622_190.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-2337\" alt=\"20130622_190\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/20130622_190-150x150.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.well, we took a deep breath and released our month-old piglets into the woods.\u00a0 Not quite freedom though; a two strand polywire\u00a0 electric fence is holding them to about a half acre.<\/p>\n<p>They come back for food and water and to sleep in an old stall,\u00a0but we&#8217;ve noticed a decline in feed consumption, probably because of all the acorns they&#8217;re finding in their new &#8220;digs&#8221;.\u00a0 They are clearly reveling in their new-found freedom and we&#8217;ll eventually expand their area for roaming.<\/p>\n<p>Someday (perhaps) we&#8217;ll let them go altogether.\u00a0 I&#8217;m already fairly confident they&#8217;ll come back in the evening for the safety of their beds.\u00a0 We do have bear, fox and raccoon (not to mention deer) in the 150 or more acres of woodland but I&#8217;d bet on a pig in a fight.<\/p>\n<p>Photo by Gisela Volkert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.well, we took a deep breath and released our month-old piglets into the woods.\u00a0 Not quite freedom though; a two strand polywire\u00a0 electric fence is holding them to about a half acre. They come back for food and water and to sleep in an old stall,\u00a0but we&#8217;ve noticed a decline in feed consumption, probably because of all the acorns they&#8217;re finding in their new &#8220;digs&#8221;.\u00a0 They are clearly reveling in their new-found freedom and we&#8217;ll eventually expand their area for roaming. Someday (perhaps) we&#8217;ll let them go altogether.\u00a0 I&#8217;m already fairly confident they&#8217;ll come back in the evening for the safety of their beds.\u00a0 We do have bear, fox and raccoon (not to mention deer) in the 150 or more acres of woodland but I&#8217;d bet on a pig in a fight. Photo by Gisela Volkert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pigs-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2342,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2336\/revisions\/2342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}