About a week ago we decided to wean the piglets off of Cathy, and find her a boyfriend. Apparently if you wean piglets, the sow will come back into heat with 2 to 4 days afterward. I would not suggest breeding a sow back that soon if she has not held up her weight very good, but Cathy has, she still looks really good, and the weight that she lost when she had the piglets, she is already gaining back.
We have a friend that has a Durock Boar that he said we can borrow. Now ‘Bill’ is huge. I don’t mean he is a little bigger than Cathy, I mean Holy Cow, are you sure that’s a pig! We went over to the house to pick Bill up, and he wasn’t so bad to get into the trailer, but it took some maneuvering. We took him home, and he settled right in, and within just a day or two he decided he really liked Cathy. 
And the really good news is that Cathy really liked Bill, so we should have piglets again in 3 months, 3 weeks, and 3 days.
