{"id":482,"date":"2015-02-21T15:57:42","date_gmt":"2015-02-21T19:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2015-02-21T15:58:26","modified_gmt":"2015-02-21T19:58:26","slug":"in-the-life-of-a-dennis-farm-pig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"In the Life of a Dennis Farm Pig&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Dennis Farms we like to think we have some pretty content animals. \u00a0Below\u00a0are a few snapshots of what it looks like around here for a few of our pigs. \u00a0Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Trained-Pigs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-483\" src=\"\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Trained-Pigs.jpg\" alt=\"Trained Pigs\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Trained-Pigs.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Trained-Pigs-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Trained-Pigs-200x112.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here are 3 of our sows and one of our boars (Larry).\u00a0 They have been trained to eat out of their specific food bowl.\u00a0 We do this with our sows to ensure that each one gets it&#8217;s full ration every day\u00a0during late gestation and while lactating.\u00a0 If we did not do this, the dominate sows (and boar in this case)\u00a0would eat more than their share leaving the less dominate sows undernourished.\u00a0 That&#8217;s Janie supervising supper.\u00a0 Without one of us present, you can kiss the training good bye.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Snuggling-Piggies.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-484\" src=\"\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Snuggling-Piggies.jpg\" alt=\"Snuggling Piggies\" width=\"625\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Snuggling-Piggies.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Snuggling-Piggies-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Snuggling-Piggies-200x112.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And above you can see\u00a0a group of piggies about a week old snuggling in the late afternoon sun &#8211; much cuter than their parents!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Dennis Farms we like to think we have some pretty content animals. \u00a0Below\u00a0are a few snapshots of what it looks like around here for a few of our pigs. \u00a0Enjoy! Here are 3 of our sows and one of our boars (Larry).\u00a0 They have been trained to eat out of their specific food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[30,28,29,31,21],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dennis-farms.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}