A Trio Of Boars

[GeorgesHuman]

Hello everyone,

I have three boars, Elliot who is three today (hooray!), Oscar who is three in February, and Charlie who is coming up to 3 months old.

On the advice of other posters on here, I moved my baby Charlie in with the other two bonded boars. They accepted him within an hour of him being in their home. This was after a whole day of floor time together. Now, a month on, Charlie is just one of them. It's like he's never not been a part of their lives, and he seems to have brought the child out in Oscar! Oscar plays silly games, races around like he's in wacky races, and popcorns.

The hierachy as it's been for the last three years is Elliot is the boss. Although he's the smallest (out of him and Oscar) he's a small piggy anyway really, he's also the oldest.

Since baby Charlie moving in, Elliot hasn't batted an eyelid. He doesn't really bother with Charlie, he just goes in the pigloo when Charlie is in there to cuddle up with him, or squash him! Even when baby Charlie tries to eat out of the same bowl as boss pig Elliot, Elliot doesn't mind, but he does with Oscar. He headbutts Oscar's head out of the bowl!

Oscar does bother with the baby. He occasionally rumblestrutts him, and also both Charlie and Oscar have tried a few times to mount each other, but for now, it's harmony. The three of them are lovely housemates.

Now, i'm just wondering what the future holds when Charlie's hormones kick in?

Does it depend on each of the individuals piggies personalities?

If there's any falling out, will it be Charlie that will be the pig removed? I'd hate to seperate my lovelies Elliot and Oscar. They're growing old together disgracefully!

Does anyone have any stories of their trio of boars bonding successfully or unsuccessfully?

Also, finally, is there anything I can do to aide their getting along for life? I've already invested in a 6ft wide per floor double tiered hutch for the three of them, so plenty of space to roam around, they have chewy toys in their cage to keep them out of mischief, although Oscar much prefers chewing the ramp in the hutch, much to his humans dismay!

Anything else I can do?

Also, Charlie is around 3 months old now, so when will he be hitting his teenage years so I can be prepared?

 

[MerryPip]

There is no real way of knowing for sure what will happen when little Charlie gets older. It sounds great just now and the fact the other two are older and well past their scatty years may help keep things stable as he gets a bit on the frisky and annoying side. It is very much dependant on personality more than anything else.

Just keep a close eye on them. If separation needed to be done then it wouldn't necessarily be Charlie that needed to be removed. It is often on piggy who is the cause of the problem or being bullied. I have heard that it is an idea to remove the 'middle' piggy in a threesome if things get heated so the most submissive and most dominant are left together so there is no fight for dominance but not sure if that really works. I have separated a trio before and left the two more dominant pigs together who got along fine once the submissive one who they were bullying was removed.

Basically I think you need to watch and wait. With any luck his uncle pigs will keep little Charlie in line and all will be well
He is likely to hit his hormonal stage anytime from now until about 12-18 months. I have had piggies who were very temperamental tiny pigs at 8 weeks old and others who just didn't care at all!