Chirping?

[Emmamarie123]

I think I just caught my Pickle chirping? I was very scared at first but it sounds like chirping to me?

 

[Nassala]

That does sound like chirping! My Meg does this semi regularly, sometimes because she is annoyed, sometimes for no apparent reason. I think it is like a release of tension for her, like a primal yell, or what a long run does for me. This is more likely if there has been a change in Pickle's environment recently, but no one's ever really worked out the whats and whys.

 

[Emmamarie123]

They just got a new cage, maybe that’s why. So strange I haven’t heard it before and I have 9 piggies now lol.

 

[Caris]

Sounds like chirping to me! It really scared me the first time I heard it, too. One of my boars, Arthur, did it the second or third day I had him, and has never done it again, but one of my sows, Ava (fitting bird name!), does it quite regularly. She's still fairly young and tends to do it when she's really, really excited or there's something new that takes her interest.

Could definitely be the new cage that triggered it! It's weird how some do it but others don't.

 

[piglette]

I have had 30 pigs over the years and only one, a sweet female named Bunny, ever chirped. She was much louder than Pickle and made a longer 'chirp' sound, but it was similar. She only ever did it in the middle of the night, maybe two or three times a year and I could never guess why.

The first time it happened I was terrified too - at first I thought a wild animal was in the house, and when I figured out it was Bunny I thought she was in pain/distress. Then I used to look forward to her doing it, and miss it now she's passed ❤