Detour Ranch

Now you have to understand, here is this pig that weighs probably somewhere around 1200 lbs. not a small fella. I have never seen a pig, or an animal so lazy in all my life. But that is ok, that is Bill’s problem. Watching Cathy and Bill and how they got along was an experience. It was funny how so many things reminded me of our own human characteristics.

There was a day where Bill was laying in a mud puddle, and Cathy walked up to him and laid down next to him and he just kinda pushed on her. She promptly got up looked at him like he was stupid and wandered off, kinda like she was saying, “well you just screwed up, see if I talk to you for the rest of the day”.

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.