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Hi I am new to the forum and I have two male pigs who are eighteen months old who live as a pair quite happily. I also have three females aged 5-ish months. My question is if I got the boys neutered could they live with my girls?
 
Sadly two neutered boars normally do not live along side other females without fighting. In the wild a male guinea pig would live in a big group of females without any other boar present.
However you could go to a local rescue and offer a neutered boar a home, there is so many boars looking for home right now! :)
 
Hi and welcome!

In short, no! Two boars around girls equals bloody fights; neutering takes only away the ability to make babies but it doesn't not change boar behaviour.

In the wild, a core group of sows will live with one dominant boar while the other bachelors are hanging losely around in the hope of being able to get the top spot themselves eventually. Keeping two boars together mimics a bachelor environment. As soon as you add even one girl, you get the core group beaviour, where boars will fight for the right to sire the next generation.

Please don't break what is not broken and leave your two groups as they are. If you wish, add a neutered boar to your girl group (it helps cutting down on some squabbling), but make sure that he will be accepted - not all adult sows will actually do so.
 
Aww ok thanks for that advice. It's a shame really cos they'd look lovely in a group. Would I be able to add maybe a neutered boar and a couple of sows to my girls as my girls are young.

I'll leave my pair of boys as they are. They are very loving my boys bless them x
 
Yeah I agree that it's easier to just keep your boars as a pair.

And yes you can add a neutered boar and other females to you group of females :) You can make a really big herd :) You could just add females even, without the neutered boar.

If you want a big herd with more than one boy then it's more difficult and you'd really need a huge enclosure for it to work, and there might be fights. Boys can be stressful :))
 
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