Attempting bonding today

[larnanoomia]

Neutered male - pikachu
Female - phoebe (brown long hair)
A few rumbles but nothing major
Bonding failed with my other Neutered boar and phoebe. Hope this works!

 

[larnanoomia]

Pikachu had his castration 17th Oct followed by abcess removal
He is around 2 years old

Phoebe was a rescue found on the streets. With us for 6 weeks. She was fear aggressive when we first got her. Shes around 9m old but I suspect she's always been alone.

 

[Piggies&buns]

Fingers crossed for them

 

[LucyP]

hope it goes well and well down for giving them a great home- Phoebe must be so happy to live somewhere nice now esp.

 

[larnanoomia]

Pikachu is the biggest and the older pig.
Feebs won't let him mount her, but she just moves away and he moves on with no issues.
Its been 20 mins and they are napping together. For this to work, does one need to accept a mount off the other one?
With my other pig. It failed straight away after 15 mins or so and ended in a tornado with a cut about & hair pulled out

Really hope this will work

 

[Piggies&buns]

A dominant sow won’t allow a boar to mount her unless she is in season, so no it doesn’t hinge on her allowing him to mount her

 

[larnanoomia]

A dominant sow won’t allow a boar to mount her unless she is in season, so no it doesn’t hinge on her allowing him to mount her

Fab thank you! Still napping together no grooming or popcorning yet

 

[piggieminder]

Fingers crossed they love each other, it's sounding good.

 

[larnanoomia]

Fingers crossed they love each other, it's sounding good.

Its been about 90 mins now. Pikachu is lying down flat as a pancake (boar) and feebs is next to him. Both have groomed themselves but not eachother. Their enclosure atm is 8 ft x 2xt split in two, so they'll have 8ft when I put them together. Providing all goes well I'll deep clean and take out the separaters with fresh bedding & no hides for their first night

 

[larnanoomia]

Nap number two

 

[larnanoomia]

Here are the piggies now. Pikachu seems to have taken the role of the dominant pig as expected

 

[Merab]

Sounds as if the bonding has gone well
They make a lovely pair

 

[weepweeps]

Sounds like a positive bonding. Phew. Gorgeous pair

 

[Ramia]

Don't forget to put some of that bedding from the bonding pen into the cage.

 

[larnanoomia]

I've had them both in a clean neutral c&c cage now for about 5 hours. They were in the bonding pen for about 5 hours also.
I've left the enclosure empty apart from their fleece bedding, a pig pile of hay and food in the middle & each end ive draped a blanket over the grids so they've got somewhere to sleep and to keep the heat in. They are still ok, pikachu every now and again will rumble strut and phoebe sometimes does it back sometimes she doesn't. Hopefully they are ok tonight but I'm hoping if it was going to fail it already would have?

My other neutered boar is in a c&c enclosure next to theirs in a L shape but ive draped a blanket over his end so they cant directly see him as the boys started rumble strutting at the bars and I didn't want it to impact the bonding. Feel sorry for him being isolated but it Hopefully won't be long and I can take it off.

 

[larnanoomia]

First night together, woke up to this. Pika still rumbled abit this morning when I brought the nuggets out and tried to mount her and she kicked him off. They started eating together then. Hope its all still normal.

 

[Piggies&buns]

All looks very good!

 

[Merab]

Good news indeed