{"id":2790,"date":"2012-12-10T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/?p=2790"},"modified":"2012-12-10T12:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T17:05:23","slug":"i-finally-finished-canning-our-venison-along-with-18-pints-of-turkey-broth-and-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/2012\/12\/10\/i-finally-finished-canning-our-venison-along-with-18-pints-of-turkey-broth-and-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"I finally finished canning our venison along with 18 pints of turkey broth and meat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And I still have half of another turkey to do! Yesterday I went to the processing plant and picked up our pig that we had butchered. Our Red Wattle gilt developed mastitis on farrowing this summer and unfortunately, you can&#8217;t treat pigs effectively for it. She only ended up with two functioning teats so that was a bad deal for her, having only one alternative. We felt bad, but that&#8217;s how things go sometimes. At least our other gilt is fine and is (hopefully) now bred back for a spring litter to Richard, our Red Wattle boar. And we kept one of Lucy&#8217;s gilts to replace her, as well as several others we didn&#8217;t get sold. They are all growing like weeds! (No, we aren&#8217;t going in the pig business. They just eat too much grain for a homesteader!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Canned-venison-and-turkey.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2791\" title=\"Canned-venison-and-turkey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Canned-venison-and-turkey.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"446\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now I&#8217;ve got to get that turkey canned up so I can start on pork. My son, Bill, and his wife, Kelly, are buying half of our pig and that&#8217;s still a lot of pork so I&#8217;ll be canning for a while. We had the first pork chops last night. Boy, were they ever good! But I&#8217;ll admit I had a few &#8220;poor Lucy&#8221; moments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And I still have half of another turkey to do! Yesterday I went to the processing plant and picked up our pig that we had butchered. Our Red Wattle gilt developed mastitis on farrowing this summer and unfortunately, you can&#8217;t treat pigs effectively for it. She only ended up with two functioning teats so that [&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\/2790"}],"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=2790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/JackieClay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}