Is This Normal?

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Katy OB

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My guineas went together on Wednesday. She follows him around willingly but he doesn't like it so much. He shudders then tries to mount her? He doesn't like sharing the tunnel we have given them either. Help please thanks :)
 
I'm no expert but it sounds normal to me. He will be excited I guess. Have you tried having two tunnels might help. I'm sure somone with more bonding knowledge will be along soon to give advice.
Hope it works out
 
The shuddering is rumble struting. He is asserting his dominance. This is all normal behaviour. It is a good idea to have two of everything as some piggies do not like to share.
 
Sounds perfectly fine for me! ;)

The shuddering is called rumblestrutting, and it is what boars do to impress a sow to show her what a strapping lad they are and how much they fancy the sow they are rumbling to! "Husboars" do it all the time, so you will have to get used to it. :)

Mounting is also very normal at the beginning - as is a sow's rejection when she is not in season. As they settle in together, the mounting will become restricted to when she is coming into season. Don't freak out when you see a sow in season turning tables and have her chasing/mounting the boy! thankfully, it usually lasts for about a day or so, but things can become a bit dramatic, especially during the first few seasons when it is very much a bonding experience. You may notice them giving each other piggy kisses on the day afterwards to reaffirm their bond.

Piggies do not necessarily sleep together; it doesn't say anything about the depth of their relationship
 
This sounds perfectly normal to me. The rumble strutting does ease off in time but at first it seems almost constant! We almost renamed our Mr Ted to Mr Rumbles as at first he spent his whole time with Fudge rumbling and slinking around trying to mount her. A year on the rumble strutting is reserved for special occasions!
 
Sounds good to me too. They'll take a few days to get to know each other. When I bonded neutered boys with girls. I always got a lot of mounting which after a few months hardly ever happens at all.
 
Ginger my only boar met Skittles 10 weeks ago today and his rumbling strutting has calmed down a lot, for the first few weeks all i could from their cage was him rumbling at her but she never seemed to mind. :)
 
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