Aggressive Male

[Chelsy]

I have 3 males together Skeeter, Chex, and pip. I’ve had them all except skeeter for about a year when I first got skeeter I had another guinea pig who sadly passed and skeeter was extremely aggressive I couldn’t keep him with my others so I made him a new cage but now he’s been living with pip and chex and he’s calmed down a lot but he is very aggressive towards pip I know that he’s just showing his dominance but pip has always let skeeter dominate him and pips never tried to do anything so I don’t understand why skeeter always goes after pip they’ve never drawn blood but last night I heard pip screaming so I jumped up and looked and skeeter had balls of pips fur in his mouth so I don’t know what to do plz help

 

[Hoppo79]

Keeping 3 males together is a bad idea I think. The cage would need to be massive! But again I would only keep two males together and I’d separate skeeter so he has his own cage. Safest bet for him and pip. Not really another way round it. He needs separating ASAP and you can always get him neutered and eventually live with a female. But I’d just keep him separate.

 

[Bill & Ted]

Hello and welcome to the forum
A trio of boars rarely works out. I think you need to separate Skeeter as the agreesion will probably increase and you risk someone getting injured or all three boars falling out.
Could Skeeter live side by side your pair? Many lone piggies are quite happy to do this once they have settled down and resigned themselves to the fact they cannot get at the other piggies. Your other alternative would be to take Skeeter boar dating at a rescue so HE can choose a companion who he would like to live with.
Neutering would another possibility if you have an good piggie experienced vet and after 6 weeks you could introduce him to a female. You would need to bond him correctly with her and again at a rescue would be the best solution as there are no guarantees a female will accept a particular boar

 

[Piggies&buns]

Welcome to the forum

Unfortunately keeping three boars together almost never works for the long term, and the cage needs to be huge to attempt a trio (covering at least three square metres) although a big cage is not the deciding factor on whether things will work out.

Now things have taken a turn, you will need to separate them into a functioning pair and a single. He will need to live in a separate cage but the cage will need to be next to the pair so he can have interaction through the bars only.
The possibility is then that you can find him his own live in boar friend (ideally via dating at a rescue centre), but living as neighbours is perfectly fine.

Neutering (and then having the six week post op wait) and bonding him with a sow is an option, but in that scenario he and his sow would then ideally need to be kept in a separate room. Putting a sow in the same room as the two boars who do remain together can cause them to have issues - so it’s best to always keep sow pheromones away from bonded boars.

Adding More Guinea Pigs Or Merging Pairs – What Works And What Not?

 

[Chelsy]

Hello and welcome to the forum
A trio of boars rarely works out. I think you need to separate Skeeter as the agreesion will probably increase and you risk someone getting injured or all three boars falling out.
Could Skeeter live side by side your pair? Many lone piggies are quite happy to do this once they have settled down and resigned themselves to the fact they cannot get at the other piggies. Your other alternative would be to take Skeeter boar dating at a rescue so HE can choose a companion who he would like to live with.
Neutering would another possibility if you have an good piggie experienced vet and after 6 weeks you could introduce him to a female. You would need to bond him correctly with her and again at a rescue would be the best solution as there are no guarantees a female will accept a particular boar

Skeeters has lived side by side with my others before and he would bite the cage and try climbing it to escape he does really well with Chex but he hates pip I was thinking of keeping skeeter with chex and building a new cage for pip and finding pip a new companion since he’s very easy to get along with

 

[Piggies&buns]

If chex and pip were the original pair and get on well then I would not separate them.
It’s about having one dominant and one submissive piggy. Who was the dominant piggy between chex and pip?

 

[Chelsy]

If chex and pip were the original pair and get on well then I would not separate them.
It’s about having one dominant and one submissive piggy. Who was the dominant piggy between chex and pip?

I would say chex was the dominant one but he never showed it He’s very calm

 

[Piggies&buns]

I would say chex was the dominant one but he never showed it He’s very calm

Then in that case, if chex is dominant and skeeter also wants to be dominant, then having the two of them together is unlikely to work.

 

[SusieW]

I had the same problem with one of my trios (although I have had two working trios and a working group of 4 boars but with this particular trio it didn't work out.) I had two brothers and another boar. The other boar and one of the brothers hated each other as they both wanted to be dominant, but both the dominant brother and the other boar absolutely loved the submissive pig so I was loathe to separate them. Eventually I had to as one was injuring the other and it was horrible for everyone so kept the two brothers together and left the other one by himself. They have an adjoining enclosure (each one is half a 5x4 C&C as they used to share the whole area as a trio). But my single pig was really upset and withdrawn and bit the bars all the time trying to get back to the boar he liked. After a very short period of him being alone I got him a friend and now they are all happy and get on really well as two pairs, and they get on really nicely as neighbours- all four get on really nicely through the partition now.
If I were you I'd separate your odd boar out and get him a friend.

Just wanted to send you my best wishes, it's a rough and stressful situation to be in.