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Boar Castration

Should Bores be castrated.?

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Hiya!
Am wondering wether to get one of my v confident bores castrated
?!? He has recently been bullying one of the other boys and has been a constant problem. At the mo they are both split up, but I don't want to keep them separate beacause they are both lonely! Have a new litter of babies so could put others with them but I am worried that they will then bully the babies to get to their girls...

Please, any tips or info!?!?
 
Sorry - not quite sure what your intention is. Neutering doesn't alter boar behaviour - it just renders them sterile. So if you are planning to keep him with another boar it won't make any difference. If you want to try him with a sow wife then neutering is definitely the way to go. Just make sure you leave it a full 6 weeks before letting him near a sow, though.
 
TooManyPiggies said:
Hiya!
Am wondering wether to get one of my v confident bores castrated
?!? He has recently been bullying one of the other boys and has been a constant problem. At the mo they are both split up, but I don't want to keep them separate beacause they are both lonely! Have a new litter of babies so could put others with them but I am worried that they will then bully the babies to get to their girls...

Please, any tips or info!?!?
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As far as I'm aware getting boars castrated doesn't change their bullying behaviour.
 
Thank you VickiA
It is that one of the bores is very bolshy therefore is bullying the other so as to have all the ladies to himself! I think neutering him will help as he may realise that he cannot make babies with the sows and stop trying his best to be with them! (We often find him on the other side of the garden in the ladies hutch) :D:)
 
TooManyPiggies said:
Thank you VickiA
It is that one of the bores is very bolshy therefore is bullying the other so as to have all the ladies to himself! I think neutering him will help as he may realise that he cannot make babies with the sows and stop trying his best to be with them! (We often find him on the other side of the garden in the ladies hutch) :D:)
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It won't take away his urges and he will still hump the females just as if he hadn't been castrated. If boars are kept within scent of females their close proximity will in itself cause the boars to fight. How many boars are you keeping together and in what size space?
 
I'm afraid he will still want all the sows to himself. I had 2 boars that we had neutered and they fought when they were with the sows.
 
VickiA ok thx.. we currently have 2 bores and 13 unsexed babies... both the bores have their own hutches( the normal general sized ones!)
 
Happy to help :) My boars were brothers who got on well but they would go mad if they could smell the girls and when neutered we thought they could all live together but no such luck, and the vet warned us of that too, that each boar would want all the sows even neutered. We split them up in the end so each boar had his own sows. You may need to keep the boars together in a different room from the sows so they can't smell them or they may fight. Or have them neutered but have the boars together with sows but in separate cages as we did, so the boars aren't together.
 
Thanks so much... Ours are half brothers and we have had this before... I think your solution of neutering them and keeping them each with one sow is best...
 
In my limited experience the only thing that will alter the sexual behavior of boars is to have them neutered before they reach sexual maturity (at around 2 weeks old).

If you often find him on 'the other side of the garden in the ladies hutch' then please have him neutered asap.
Clearly he is not in a secure enclosure, and could risk impregnating your sows.
As you already have 13 babies, I am guessing this has already happened more than once :no:
 
Neutering doesn't change boar behaviour or personality; it basically takes away the ability to make babies. Plus you have to find a good vet (to minimise the risk of post-op complications) and then wait 6 weeks until your is 100% safe to go with sows. The little baby in my avatar is the present from an over 5 weeks post-op boar - not one of mine I hasten to add, but just to make the point!

Please take the time to read this guide here: Boars: Bullying, Fighting, Fall-outs And What Next?
 
No... we have 13 babies on purpose. And he cannot actually get to the sows, he just talks to them at he fence. He is in a very secure enclosure and all our guinea pigs live in a walled garden. It is just that he is usually on the other side with his famand where his hutch is.
 
Weibke. Thx. And also Swissgreys it is not a risk if he 'impregnate a sow' ...
 
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