Boars Fighting And Drawing Blood. What Do I Do?

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Poppy Davis

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I was sat with my 4 boars last night and suddenly there was this big rumbling sound. i turned round and one of the pigs had started to attack the other 3. It went from a low rumbling sound, to teeth chattering to actually trying to properly attack and kill the other pigs. The pig that started to attack them managed to get so aggravated that he made one of my pigs (Pippin) jump higher than the top of their cage (36cm 5x3 c and c cage). He also managed to pull a big clump of fur from Twiglet, one of my other boars. I walked over to the cage and they all ran off but Juno (the one that attacked the rest) stayed. i picked him up and put him in their box for a bit of time out. HE seemed quite distressed by this but the rest of the pigs looked very relived. I left him there for about 5-10 minutes and then put him back in. He again tried to attack the smaller pig of the lot. I decided to leave him and give him a chance and went to bed. But i was just lying there watch him attack the other pigs (they are in my room). I ended up having to separate the cage down one end to make it a 3x3 and a 2x3 and i put Juno in the 2x3 along with hay, water, chews and a hidey house. He seemed quite distressed by this and was chewing on the bars, trying to get through. However the other pigs dont seem to miss him one bit. So I'm now confused as to what i do about this. Please help me :ple::help::(
 
is there one of the three that he gets on with so you could have two pairs? Sounds to me like they need split.
 
Generally boars cannot successfully live in more than pairs. It would be a good idea if you could split them into two pairs as madguineapiglady has said. You need to find the best two that get on and make sure they have at the very least 4x2 cage 5x2 would be much better and as these are the min sizes recommended for pairs of piggies x
 
madguinealady said:
is there one of the three that he gets on with so you could have two pairs? Sounds to me like they need split.
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He doesnt get on with any of them :( i dont want to have to take him to the blue cross or something but at the moment that seems to be one of my only options as leaving him on his own is distressing him considerably.
 
I have 10 boars, I adopted a pair of himis in the summer who were meant to be bonded... nope, they had a massive fight and we had to split them, one now has a new friend who we adopted at 6 weeks old and the other lives alone because we aren't sure that he'll even get on with other boars, he now lives next to our two older boars with the girls above them, he seems perfectly fine, he can hear and smell the others, we did used to let him have contact with the girls but he kept chewing the bars.

Do you have the space and money to set up a 2x5 C&C and if so would you be able to get to a rescue that will help you find a friend for the third boar?

I hope you find a solution to your problem :/ I know how frustrating it is.
 
You could consider having him neutered and then try to pair him up with one of the other boys or consider getting him a 'wife'.

I know the general thoughts of most members is that neutering does not change a boars behaviour but if you do it when they are young enough then I have a boar who is living proof that it can.

My boar Elvis could not live with George that he was paired with when I got them and constantly beat him up. Poor George was always terrified. I tried to see what they would be like if I could pair them up with my other 2 boars who are very passive. Well Elvis attacked Nelson and drew blood and Jasper was petrified and ran away. George however fell in love with Jasper and Nelson so they live happily in a trio. Again most members will tell you this does not generally work.

I had Elvis neutered and he was about 8 months old. Pretty much from the day of the operation he was a changed piggy :nod: He is now a happy, chilled out little dude. I also decided rather than upset my trio again to put him with my sows.
He is in piggy heaven and everyone is living happily ever after (well for now anyway :lol!:)

Good luck I hope you can sort something out rather than have to give him up.
 
Kerrie74 said:
I have 10 boars, I adopted a pair of himis in the summer who were meant to be bonded... nope, they had a massive fight and we had to split them, one now has a new friend who we adopted at 6 weeks old and the other lives alone because we aren't sure that he'll even get on with other boars, he now lives next to our two older boars with the girls above them, he seems perfectly fine, he can hear and smell the others, we did used to let him have contact with the girls but he kept chewing the bars.

Do you have the space and money to set up a 2x5 C&C and if so would you be able to get to a rescue that will help you find a friend for the third boar?

I hope you find a solution to your problem :/ I know how frustrating it is.
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i just tried putting Pippin in with Juno to see if he had learnt his lesson but Juno went straight for Pippin so i had to take Pippin out before things got out of hand. I am looking for rescue piggies on the blue cross and the RSPCA but I'm not sure i have the space. I am going to try and sort out my room today and maximise the space usage but I'm not sure i will be able to. I also tried keeping him in contact with the other boars through the cage but again he also tried to scratch the other pigs through the bars and was chewing them. I dont think keeping him on his own would be an option because he is getting quite distressed being on his own as he is used to being with other boars and I'm afraid that it may lead to other health problems.
 
If you could have adopted another piggie for him I would have suggested something like this which is my cage and it houses 3 sows at the top and 2 older boars at the bottom.

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