{"id":8595,"date":"2017-01-19T23:34:21","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T04:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.qvu.ycq.mybluehost.me\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2021-06-26T21:28:02","slug":"getting-acquainted-with-quiet-valleys-farm-animal-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/getting-acquainted-with-quiet-valleys-farm-animal-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Acquainted with Quiet Valley&#8217;s Farm Animal Friends"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"8595\" class=\"elementor elementor-8595\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-febceee elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"febceee\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-00d330b\" data-id=\"00d330b\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d222885 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d222885\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Today was my first day learning how to feed the animals here at Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm.\u00a0 There is a wide range of animals here at the farm including: pigs, horses, a mule, turkeys, rabbits, pigs, goats, and sheep. This time of year, in the winter, the feeding goes pretty quickly and easily.\u00a0 The animals are mostly in the 1850s bank barn, the chicken coop, and the pig barn.\u00a0 (During the summer, the animals are all spread out across the farm.)<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The day started in the barn feeding the horses, pig, turkeys, geese, Lily the goat, and the rabbits. The turkeys were the only ones who didn\u2019t seem much interested in food.\u00a0 They preferred perching in the window and showing off their tail feathers.\u00a0 Did you know pigs drool in anticipation of food? Apparently they do.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The most exciting thing that happened other than a few slips and spills on the icy ground was when we were feeding the rabbits.\u00a0 We opened the rabbit cages to change out their food and water.\u00a0 Normally the rabbits think nothing of it but today one developed an unusual idea.\u00a0 One of the rabbits is a big, white one like the kind from Alice in Wonderland sans waistcoat and pocket watch. She looked at that open pen and saw an opportunity, the new person.\u00a0 She sprung over the edge of her cage like a graceless pole vaulter (or someone planning a painful belly flop in a pool). Dumbstruck, all I can think of is \u2018the rabbit escaped\u2019. Will she bolt and get out of the barn. She, I assume, thinks it too as she rests on the floor under her pen.\u00a0 In an attempt for a quick recovery, I scoop her up.\u00a0 Immediately, my thoughts change to \u2018Goodness she\u2019s heavy,\u2019 before putting her back in her cage. We had a moment as she watched me go to get her food.\u00a0 As much as she seemed to relish that brief moment of flight, we both agreed her pole vaulting career was over.<\/span><\/p><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This blog is written to help visitors fall in love with the farm.\u00a0 This post was written by Kat Muller the new administrator about her experiences as she learns about the farm.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today was my first day learning how to feed the animals here at Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm.\u00a0 There is a wide range of animals here at the farm including: pigs, horses, a mule, turkeys, rabbits, pigs, goats, and sheep. This time of year, in the winter, the feeding goes pretty quickly and easily.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":8596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-farm-animals","category-life-on-the-farm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quietvalley.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}