Boars Fighting?

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I adopted 2 boars of unknown age from the adoption section in Pets at Home about 3 weeks ago. At the time they looked massive so I am assuming that they are fully grown/adult.

Up until yesterday they were getting along fine, eating out of the same bowl and sleeping in the same house. This evening however Patchy (slightly smaller in size) was chasing Brownie (larger size) and kept trying to walk on top of him and Brownie just sort of stuck his nose in the air and ran off. Patchy would then run after Brownie and kept trying to nibble? under Brownies chin or on his sides which then resulted in squealing and Brownie running off.*With the nibbling there was no hair or blood so I didn't think it counted as biting*

From what I can gather Patchy seems to be the one starting it all and Brownie doesn't seem interested and just runs off or ignores Patchy until the nibbling or walking over starts then Brownie squeals or may just run off.

They have 2 houses, water bottles and food bowls so should I be concerned or are they just getting sorted out now that they have settled in?
 
they are just getting sorted out. You are seeing some dominance behaviour, which you would expect in new territory, as guinea pigs always to re-establish their hierarchy in any new territory; it can on rare occasions trigger fall-outs among adult pairs. However, none of it is in the dangerous zone so far with your boys and thing will hopefully settle down again within a few days!
You may find these threads here helpful in understanding what is going on and judging when things are getting really iffy:
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/dominance-behaviours-in-guinea-pigs.28949/
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/faq-introducing-and-re-introducing-guinea-pigs.38562/
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/boar-dating-service-wales.59233/
 
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