Final Bonding Tips?

PiggyProdigy said:
@Wiebke wow! What a unique name. And I thought mike was cool :/ I'm Liam, as Irish-American as it gets
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I am a Swiss national living in England. My name is tradional along the North Sea border from the Netherlands and Germany (where my family has its roots) and then along Denmark adn Norway as Vibeke.
 
@Wiebke wow! That's amazing! Maybe we should have a branch on the forum about roots and countries and heritage and stuff as to make it more relatable than just typing to a username that could be thousands of miles away :/
 
Hey hope your piggy bonding is going well. I have read through your post and can draw similarities in what I went through with my boars scooby and shaggy. In the end I had them seperated for weeks like yourself in the same cage with a divider. As days turned into weeks they stopped showing aggression through the bars. So i did a buddy bath this had inital promise but after the inidividual boar smell returned so did the violence. So we had them seperated for a few weeks again, but this time over the period of the split the showed less and less agression through the bars. So last sunday (not the one just gone but the one before) we re-introduced and they had some dominance displays but not much, and they have been back living together for over a week now. My two have 2 and 3 of everything, but i think alot of it comes down to hormones. I got my two at the same time from P@H and they were the same ago so hormone spikes were in sync.
 
Wow. Thanks, @Scooby& Shaggy Fun fact, my boars used to be named scooby and shaggy until I adopted them and made them mine :)
Since I accidentally intterupted their bonding, I have them seperated again (for about 12 hours now) and no dominence signs at all or anything. I'm conflicted, however, whether to wait and try to bath bond them or do a regular bond soon. Should I wait say the school week and bath bond them or try it again sooner? Which will they respond to more? Hopefully this all gets sorted out soon and they're buds again. Oh well. Time is time.
 
Their bond I accidentally interrupted was going really well barely any chattering or anything I just didn't know about the nap, so I don't think I entirely ruined it
 
I think the most important thing it to choose a day when you have lots and lots of time.
I always think it is good to leave them in the bonding pen for as long a possible, so you can not only see how they react when they wake up from a nap, but also when there is a sudden loud noise in the distance, or a bird tweets, or you put the coffee machine on, or....
Once you start you have to be prepared to sit it out, and do it on their time, not yours.

Make yourself a coffee, grab a good book and be prepared to hang around for a while.
When I first bonded my 4 (I had 3 and added another) I left them in the pen almost all day (around 7 hours).
When they seemed settled I moved them into their new cage, but then did not handle them or change anything much for a further 3 or 4 days. I wanted to give them every chance to settle in together without interruption (apart from topping up hay, pellets, water, etc).
In all honesty I would say it was probably just over a week before I felt they finally settled and everyone had agreed on the pecking order.
 
Wow, @Swissgreys that was very insightful and full of info. I will choose Saturday of this week, and make this happen. Couldn't do much of anything without this forum though to be honest. You are all equally the best!
 
PiggyProdigy said:
Wow, @Swissgreys that was very insightful and full of info. I will choose Saturday of this week, and make this happen. Couldn't do much of anything without this forum though to be honest. You are all equally the best!
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This Forum was the only thing that got me through that first bonding with my lot too - I could never have stuck it out without all of the excellent support and advice.
I think I must have looked at Wiebke's bonding thread about 100 times that day :lol:
 
Hey all who have been helping me out, this morning as I was getting ready for school I found one of my piggies out of his cage? He bit and pulled at a grid and was doing the same thing to the divider I have for my two boars at the moment! I'm currently on the bus for school and I re I forced the divider and parts of the cage with strong reliable tape, but that was so worrying! He's not aggressive or very hormonal in any way, so I was wondering... Could it because when I interrupted their bonding on Saturday that they are in fact bonded and I seperated a bonded pair? (Which would explain why he is trying to get to the other boar) when I put them in the cage as a "bonded" pair, and I was unaware of the final nap stage, they had a quick scuffle so I panicked and seperated them again.. So should I maybe try fixing uninforced grids and see how they react without the barrier? I've never seen him do anything like this before! He chewed off tape with no interest of eating itand got in one of his hideys and kept ramming it into the divider so try to seperate the divider! Also, the dominant boar, Bojangles, seems oddly sad lately :(
Any help is appreciated,
Thanks :)
 
I'm no expert, but it is possible I wouldn't just lump them back in together though, as there is the potential to completely ruin any bond they might have. Probably best to do the neutral territory bonding over again as you planned. If they can still see, smell and talk to each other in the meantime, then that can only help that process.
 
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