{"id":2080,"date":"2012-03-12T11:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T15:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2012-03-12T11:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T15:54:22","slug":"what-do-you-do-when-the-boar-pig-you-borrowed-is-sterile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/03\/12\/what-do-you-do-when-the-boar-pig-you-borrowed-is-sterile\/","title":{"rendered":"What do you do when the boar pig you borrowed is sterile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently traded breeding services with our friends, Nate and Tiffany. They had three goats that needed to be bred. We had two gilt pigs that we needed to breed. So we swapped. We brought her goats and her boar pig home. Well, that was nearly three months ago and our gilts were still coming into heat! Not good. The boar is short legged. But that&#8217;s not all that&#8217;s short, if you get my drift. Then, to top it off, Will noticed that he only had one testicle! To get baby pigs this summer, we had to do something and quick!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Richard_01.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2081\" title=\"Richard_01\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Richard_01.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luckily, Will found a red wattle boar listed on Craigslist only 130 miles from us. So I called and yesterday we made a quick road trip. We met some nice folks and had a good visit. The fellow&#8217;s mom runs a family-sized greenhouse business, so we had a good time not only talking pigs, but greenhouse too. It was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n<p>This morning, we swapped boars in the pen after worming the new guy last night\u2026just to be sure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Richard_02.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2082\" title=\"Richard_02\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Richard_02.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"382\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/T-Rex.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2083\" title=\"T-Rex\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/T-Rex.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It just goes to show you, homesteading is seldom cut and dried and even here, a lot of things can go wrong. Like last week when a big round bale tipped over and killed one of our favorite 300 pound angus\/holstein heifers. What a blow that was! Homesteading is never perfect; life is not perfect. And you&#8217;d better learn to roll with the punches and point toward the future with hope. &#8212; Jackie<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently traded breeding services with our friends, Nate and Tiffany. They had three goats that needed to be bred. We had two gilt pigs that we needed to breed. So we swapped. We brought her goats and her boar pig home. Well, that was nearly three months ago and our gilts were still coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}