{"id":3498,"date":"2014-06-16T09:46:28","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T13:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=3498"},"modified":"2014-06-17T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2014-06-17T15:23:51","slug":"pork-little-help-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/pork-little-help-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Pork&#8230;with a little help from our friends&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140613_12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-3499\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/20140613_12-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"20140613_12\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>&#8230;.as Thistle Hill pork aficionados have learned, it&#8217;s a waiting game!\u00a0 Fattening pigs mostly on pasture takes a long time.\u00a0 But now we think we have\u00a0found &#8220;the trick&#8221;.\u00a0 Or tricks!<\/p>\n<p>Organic, non-GMO feed, is twice as expensive, but Rich Hamilton of Elim Springs farm convinced us, on a recent visit, to triple the daily allowance.\u00a0 It takes about 6 pounds a day just to maintain a pig so every ounce over that is what adds the weight.\u00a0 We had them at maintenance&#8230;.wasting time.<\/p>\n<p>And then Reality Farms&#8217; John and Terry Guevremont\u00a0made available the left-over raw milk from their grass fed dairy cows and the pigs are practically exploding.\u00a0 As you can see from the picture, they&#8217;re often too stuffed to even make it to the trough.\u00a0 Used to be they would practically climb the fence.\u00a0 That&#8217;s grandson Church Humphreys doing chores.<\/p>\n<p>We expect pork about the end of the month.\u00a0 Make sure you&#8217;re on our mailing list.\u00a0 <a title=\"Email - THistlehill Farms\" href=\"mailto:info@thistlehill.net\">info@thistlehill.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.as Thistle Hill pork aficionados have learned, it&#8217;s a waiting game!\u00a0 Fattening pigs mostly on pasture takes a long time.\u00a0 But now we think we have\u00a0found &#8220;the trick&#8221;.\u00a0 Or tricks! Organic, non-GMO feed, is twice as expensive, but Rich Hamilton of Elim Springs farm convinced us, on a recent visit, to triple the daily allowance.\u00a0 It takes about 6 pounds a day just to maintain a pig so every ounce over that is what adds the weight.\u00a0 We had them at maintenance&#8230;.wasting time. And then Reality Farms&#8217; John and Terry Guevremont\u00a0made available the left-over raw milk from their grass fed dairy cows and the pigs are practically exploding.\u00a0 As you can see from the picture, they&#8217;re often too stuffed to even make it to the trough.\u00a0 Used to be they would practically climb the fence.\u00a0 That&#8217;s grandson Church Humphreys doing chores. We expect pork about the end of the month.\u00a0 Make sure you&#8217;re on our mailing list.\u00a0 info@thistlehill.net &nbsp;<\/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-3498","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\/3498","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=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3507,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}