It's All Gone A Bit Quiet...

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image.webp ...after spending the afternoon with a towel and oven glove ready, watching five sows in a playpen.

The dreaded bonding!

And it's gone something like this:

Drama, chasing, squealing, more drama, eating, drama, a little drink, more chasing, drama...snooze...chasing, some munchies...

Sigh.

How Wiebke copes with this is beyond me. Still, I was a lot more settled this time. And at least there is only one more bonding gonna happen after Snowy's six week post op wait. He's do submissive that the girls are gonna eat him alive!

Sweetie's ear is fine, the newbies have been settling down and now everyone is snoozing. I'm currently waiting for the C&C cage to dry after hosing it down with F10. I really need shares in that company. F10 disinfectant. F10 hand gel. F10 barrier creme. All I need is F10 soap and I can shower with it...

I just read the post title and my spelling has let me down again.
 
Well done - you need to hold your nerve at times! They look quite calm in this pic.
I've edited your title for you x
 
Thank you VickiA.

After today my head is killing me...the main cage has been cleaned and the girlies have been in there for the last hour or so. And I have shut the door. I still hear the occasional squeal of submission however.

There are no hidies with only one exit. Everything has at least two exits. There are three water bottles attached to the cage with a grid between them, and there are three large bowls of nuggets and two hay racks piled high with hay. There are two fleece tunnels, two grassy mats with one bendy log, three chubs and a grass tunnel.

There is plenty of room to run around and everyone looks tired. Tomorrow I will scatter feed veggies.
 
Aww, they look so cute and tiny in there. Glad it seems to be going well eventually.
We're getting everything prepped for bonding our 2 sows with 2 new 6 month old arrivals.

It's stressful to make sure everything is ready/washed, check we have enough houses and cosies, and food bowls, and to make sure the timings are ok for everything.
We can't set up the new big cage that will be the permanent home for the 4 of them until they are in the bonding zone. We'll (well just me prob :p) be running back and forth between the new cage and bonding area just incase any shenanigan ares afoot.
 
Mine were in the bonding pen for several hours before I cleaned the cage and got it ready. I do not have any snuggle pouches or anything with one exit in there as I do not want anyone getting trapped and bitten.

The 2x2 loft should be arriving next week, but I might wait until Snowy is 6 week post op before adding it.
 
Went to bed early with a splitting headache, the kind that was making me feel very unwell.

Got woken up an hour after with my OH saying that Cutie was being bullied by the others and she was looking at him, pleading silently to get her out. He was not having this as her ear was cut and it wasn't fair. We argued about them: the Bond has taken, it's the first night and they need to stay in the cage but he wants me to separate and to try again next week.

This was why I bonded them all without him in the house. He doesn't fully understand bonding and he panics.

Her ear looks nicked, but there is no blood and it looks like it was done ages ago. Cutie is a very shy, submissive little piggy, and she was hiding away when it was just her and her sister, so her behaviour is normal for her. There is the occasional squealing and chasing, but nothing major. Cutie is in one fleece tunnel and her sister is in the second. They squeak whenever any other pig tries to go in and the others back away.

Although I keep an eye on them, they are in the main cage and so they just have to 'get on with it'. I do check all of them over for signs of fighting.
 
No wonder you went to bed with a headache, sounds like quite the stressful ordeal all this bonding. Hope it all it all goes well for you :)
 
I love their names! Hope all was well overnight with the newly forming herd.
 
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