Help Fall Out!

[Polly and Rosie]

Hi,
I am looking after two piggies for someone and have placed them in the piggy room. Our piggies are in the room in a seperate cage from the new piggys aand have started fighting with teeth chattering. Can anyone help @Wiebke
Thanks

 

[Veggies Galore]

Are they all boys? Are they in separate cages ?

 

[Wiebke]

Are they different genders?

Could you move the temporary piggies to another room, please? If necessary, separate your your boys overnight to cool down and then do a full intro on nuetral ground with buddy bath tomorrow morning.
Here are more tips: https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/introducing-and-re-introducing-guinea-pigs.38562/
https://www.theguineapigforum.co.uk/threads/dominance-behaviours-in-guinea-pigs.28949/

 

[Polly and Rosie]

They are both sows. My 2 are in one cage, the other piggies are in a seperate cage.

 

[Wiebke]

If one of your girls has got ovarian cyst/aggression issues, it can still upset a somewhat fragile balance. Can you split the cage to let them cool down and see how it goes after a bt of a breather? Sows don't need a buddy bath as that is there to remove any excessive testosterone stink from boars pee spraying.

 

[Polly and Rosie]

They have seemed to have calmed down. I think I will leave them as there is no more agression.

 

[Wiebke]

Sows usually settle down much easier than boars, thankfully! I hope that they just had a spat and that things are going to back to normal.

 

[Polly and Rosie]

Yes, will look out for more unusual behaviour and thanks for the links they were very helpful!

 

[Maisy and Poppy]

Glad that you have sorted everything out.

 

[catslovelycats]

Oh good luck. I hope they settle. I looked after 2 boars for a friend last summer who looked like they were trying to kill each other when I put them on the lawn. I can only assume they could smell my girls had been there, as I kept them shut in the shed when the boys were out. They had been fine the previous year. It was horrible!