{"id":950,"date":"2010-06-07T23:03:27","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T04:03:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/svmedaris.wordpress.com\/?p=950"},"modified":"2010-06-07T23:03:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T04:03:27","slug":"pigs-1st-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marketweightpress.com\/here\/pigs-1st-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs, 1st\u00a0day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up our feeder pigs yesterday from a wonderful farm, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepigpage.com\/monsonshowpigs\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Monson Showpigs<\/a> up in Richland Center. They sell show pigs and more, almost year-round. Absolutely beautiful animals, and the pigs are really people-friendly. You can tell they&#8217;ve been handled from the beginning and are used to people. The Monson&#8217;s Hampshire boar, Pioneer was the model for <a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/images\/fine_art\/2007\/somepig_library.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>Some Pig<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are our 4 little pigs on their first day out on pasture&#8211;sleeping in their pig hut in the morn, and then adventuring out in the brush later in day. The red one is a purebred Duroc gilt. The 2 black ones are Hampshire\/Duroc barrows. The white one is a Yorkshire\/Hampshire barrow.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/day1_sleeping.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"feeder pigs sleeping\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/day1_sleeping.jpg\" alt=\"4 pigs sleep in a row\" width=\"420\" height=\"505\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">These feeder pigs were born 1st week in March, so they&#039;re about 3 months old here. They weigh about 50lbs each.<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/duroc72.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Duroc in bush\" src=\"http:\/\/svmedaris.com\/blog\/images\/2010\/duroc72.jpg\" alt=\"Reddish brown pig looks out from bush\" width=\"420\" height=\"503\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">This is the lone female in the bunch. A Duroc gilt. Click photo to enlarge--a total cutie.<\/p><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked up our feeder pigs yesterday from a wonderful farm, Monson Showpigs up in Richland Center. They sell show pigs and more, almost year-round. Absolutely beautiful animals, and the pigs are really people-friendly. 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