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Post by mrt on May 28, 2018 19:03:38 GMT
Just adopted 5 cavies (2 boars, 3 sows) all under 7 months old. Sows are getting along fine. I now have both males in separate adjacent enclosures, older male chasing and tearing at the the younger male's face... no blood but relentless/vicious! Prior to separation older male would alternate fighting with the other boar and copulating with each of the sows repeatedly... a real egomaniac! Will this ever settle so that they can coexist in one enclosure?
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Post by bazookagoof on May 28, 2018 21:41:24 GMT
I had a similar problem, but I ended up getting two separate cages for my boars- as much as I tried, having them in the same cage wasn't going to work. I would bring them into neutral territory (outside) and things would always be very tense.
You might not necessarily have the same issue; there are a few more experienced members here who will chime in on this eventually with second opinions.  |
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Post by 3piggles on May 29, 2018 0:31:29 GMT
Hello, and welcome Could you clarify some things, please. Were all 5 pigs kept together? Were they all neutered/spayed? Are the boys and girls caged near each other? If the answers are yes, at least to the questions about them being in the same cage, and now being separated but near each other, you need to put the girls and boys in different rooms, where the boys can't smell the girls. I think that's the problem. One or more of the girls may be in heat. Even if they aren't, the randy pig didn't stop being randy, just because you put him in a separate cage. Males can compete for females quite viciously, which I think is what's happening. If you can't put them in separate rooms, at least put the cages as far apart as possible. I don't know if that will be good enough. Depends on how determined randy pig is |
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Post by Bean on May 29, 2018 7:52:51 GMT
I've come across a few people who have a few boars living together, but never anyone who has more than one boar in the same group with multiple females. They'll just compete (brutally) for the females (even if there are loads) and being neutered (which I'm assuming they are if they're with a group of females) makes no difference to dominance behaviour.
I think your best bet would be to have two groups of one boar and one or more females. This is the idea grouping for them.
There's a chance the boys could get along without girls around, but now they've fought, unfortunately they may have long memories.
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