Adopted 2 sows from rescue today & paired with my neutered boar. But theyre all avoiding each other! What do i do?!

emmyk89 said:
Yes of course the boxes have 2 entrances. The cage is 3x5. The boxes are small enough already - he won't fit end to end in any of them if they are any smaller.

Even if there were no hideys at all it wouldn't matter - Yeti is going over to each of the pigs purposefully, head on, to rumblestrut at them and nudge them. In fact she seeks them out to do just that
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Yes she does seem to be. I had a fear aggressive boar in with 2 sows, one very dominant and it seemed to work by him having a lot of space away from them, a loft etc. That's just why I mentioned, it's hard to see the size of the cage in the video.
 
Black piggies said:
Yes she does seem to be. I had a fear aggressive boar in with 2 sows, one very dominant and it seemed to work by him having a lot of space away from them, a loft etc. That's just why I mentioned, it's hard to see the size of the cage in the video.
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No worries, the camera is a wide angle so makes everything seem smaller. It even makes reggie look tiny when he's at the far end but he's huge haha!
We will be building a loft soon aswell just have to draw and plan it out and get the stuff ordered :)

Reggie doesn't seem to be as jumpy now. Much less then day 1 he's definitely improved. I just hope Yeti settles down a bit soon, she has been a bit more calm the last few hours though and a bit less incessant than this morning, I'm just not sure what exactly she needs or wants from the other piggies
 
Hopefully it's just being in season crazies, and settles down. The way Yeti chucked her sowmate out that bed 😳😊
 
Black piggies said:
Hopefully it's just being in season crazies, and settles down. The way Yeti chucked her sowmate out that bed 😳😊
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Hopefully, I think they have lived in a tiny cage all their lives (about 9 months old she said) (the "rescue" I got them from i found out after i got them actually stocks old breeding stock or unsold babies) and there were 4 of them in the little hutch so I doubt she's ever had this much space to play in and has no clue what to do with it 😅

I had some boars, around 12 years ago and one often squealed at the other to steal and throw him out of his bed, I forget how normal it is but you can't help feel sorry for the underpigs!
 
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