{"id":688,"date":"2012-06-16T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T18:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2012-06-16T13:21:45","modified_gmt":"2012-06-16T20:21:45","slug":"pigs-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/pigs-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"Pigs Nest??"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a video of Piper preparing her nest during the early morning hours. \u00a0She started labor around 9pm later that same evening. \u00a0 This is all natural behavior, one in which she is able to fully express on pasture. \u00a0It was also a great clue to us that labor was\u00a0imminent. \u00a0 She did not farrow well this winter so we wanted to keep a close eye on her this time around. \u00a0After giving birth to the first wiggling weaner about 9:30 last night….there were no more babies for almost an hour. \u00a0This is where Anita and her\u00a0Vaseline\u00a0coated arm came in to assist. \u00a0She was able to get the process moving again at a normal pace….and she now has six babies to care for. \u00a0Anita was amazingly calm and confident as she worked inside an animal at least four times her size.<\/p>\n

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By 2:30 am she was done…..and everyone was ready for \u00a0a rest. \u00a0 When Taryn and I went to check on her in the morning she hopped up and went to the irrigation ditch for some water and a stretch. \u00a0We nervously watched as she laid back down next to her babies. \u00a0 Taryn quickly huddled up the little ones as Piper worked up the hay (we added some fresh bedding while she was getting water) . \u00a0Once she was down she called to babies in to nurse. \u00a0By evening chores today…all is routine and everyone is doing fine. \u00a0Enjoy the video….it really confirms to me that this is the right path to food.<\/p>\n

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Here is a video of Piper preparing her nest during the early morning hours. \u00a0She started labor around 9pm later that same evening. \u00a0 This is all natural behavior, one in which she is able to fully express on pasture. \u00a0It was also a great clue to us that labor was\u00a0imminent. \u00a0 She did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[149,150,53],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","tag-farrowing","tag-nesting","tag-pastured-pigs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":698,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatamericanegg.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}