BARABOO, Wis. (AP) -- About 1,700 pigs believed to have been electrocuted at a Sauk City farm have been taken to a rendering plant.

Tammy Vaassen is director of operations for the Wisconsin Pork Association, and she says operators of the Maize-N-Bacon jack Wyttenbach Family Farm took the dead pigs in for rendering Friday night and Saturday morning.

The state Department of Natural Resources had reported that the agency was contacted Friday for advice on how to dispose of the pigs.

DNR spokesman Greg Matthews says he doesn't know how the pigs were electrocuted, but the agency's concern was proper disposal of the carcasses.

He says the DNR favored the option of taking them in for rendering, a process that converts the carcasses into materials that can be used in various products.

Vaassen says the deaths of the pigs are a significant loss for a family farm.