SusieW
Junior Guinea Pig
Hello!
I was just wondering if anyone has any success stories regarding groups of boars?
I now have four boars and they get on great together. We sometimes have rumblestrutting and the occasional teeth chatter, and the usual dominance behaviours when they were introduced, but mostly they love to spend time with each other, and they often sleep in a row! They can often be found chilling out in different combinations of pigs- it's like they rotate who they sit with!- but as far as I can tell they all get on and no one seems to get left out.
We have a definite leader- had a few problems when the one year old we've had from a baby was very hormonal and wanted to be boss, but the oldest put him in his place and we're fine now!
I was just wondering if anyone has any success stories of boar- trios or groups? I've seen a lot of negativity about groups of boars and would really love to hear about some happy groups of boys.
Also I'd be interested to know if there's any common denominators of successful groups? We have lots of food bowls, water bottles and hay areas and a fair bit of space (we think 45 square feet floorspace plus 22ft of tubes for running and to connect the levels) I think different levels really helps too so they can get away from each other if they are irritating each other!
Anyway, would love to hear about happy boars!
I was just wondering if anyone has any success stories regarding groups of boars?
I now have four boars and they get on great together. We sometimes have rumblestrutting and the occasional teeth chatter, and the usual dominance behaviours when they were introduced, but mostly they love to spend time with each other, and they often sleep in a row! They can often be found chilling out in different combinations of pigs- it's like they rotate who they sit with!- but as far as I can tell they all get on and no one seems to get left out.
We have a definite leader- had a few problems when the one year old we've had from a baby was very hormonal and wanted to be boss, but the oldest put him in his place and we're fine now!
I was just wondering if anyone has any success stories of boar- trios or groups? I've seen a lot of negativity about groups of boars and would really love to hear about some happy groups of boys.
Also I'd be interested to know if there's any common denominators of successful groups? We have lots of food bowls, water bottles and hay areas and a fair bit of space (we think 45 square feet floorspace plus 22ft of tubes for running and to connect the levels) I think different levels really helps too so they can get away from each other if they are irritating each other!
Anyway, would love to hear about happy boars!