Males fighting, any advice?!

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I have 3 male guinea pigs, I got the 3rd one in December an they have been gettin on great until this week. My dominant male has started fighting with the new one to the point where all his nose is cut and mouth aswell. I think that the new one could of possibly challenged dominance but also i have another guinea pig who isn't fighting. I have noticed my two fighting boars seem to scent on my other one so now I'm wondering if there fighting over my other Guinea pig. Has anyone else ever had this? Also any tips to stop the fighting please! I have done a buddy bath and covered them in talc to hide scents. Please any help is much appreciated :) I don't want to have to get rid of my newest piggie :(
 
the general rule is if there is blood drawn seperate them.

How big is your cage? do you have 3 of everything?
 
They have calmed down a lot since I bathed them n stuff, I have a big c&c cage so they have plenty of room. I have two food bowls n lots of huts n snuggle sacs to hide in.
 
Mmm you will need to keep a very close eye on them its very rare to get 3 boars that get along, not impossible. I'm speaking for experience my dominant showing pig was nipping and chasing and jumping at the pig who was same age. Both were scent marking the 3rd boy. I had to separate them. Good job as they really don't like each other now they got a mesh wire fence between them but they still chatter like something possessed would dread to think what they do to each other without the fence there =(

How old are all your Boars?

hope they work things out peacefully for you.
 
i have 2 quads of boys and a group of 5 so there is hope, the stickies are great guides but overall they need alot of space,a few of each thing(no female scent, the only issue i had is when i fostered females recently and even though they were at opposite ends of the house my boys got crabby until the girls left)

and most importantly i use tunnels rather than hideys so that one piggy cannot trap another, because if there is no escape then a fight usually breaks out.
I also spread veges/pellets across the cage rather than in bowls now as they tend to be able get food without fighting for it.

There are many more tips but i hope that helps
 
I hope they settle down soon :)

Two of my male pigs did fight and draw blood before (just a tiny cut), but then settled down after, so there is hope.

I'd keep them together unless a bad fight happens again, or unless one seems very unhappy and scared.
 
Actually, I wanted to ask a similar question. We have the same problem. Three boars, around 10 to 11 weeks old. Patch generally stayed out of the way and wasn't bothered, but Basil tried to play boss and has been chasing the third one, Sparky, around the cage for hours. Yesterday, it got so far we put Basil in a separate cage. Suddenly, everything was fine. I'm a little worried that we separated them too early since there wasn't really blood flowing, but Sparky had a small mark on his backside and I didn't want to wait until it got really serious.

My bf is making them a second cage now so we can link the two cages. They've had one house so far to hide in and now he's going to make two more - maybe they need more privacy. I bought two more food bowls and water bottles as well, so hopefully, by tonight when everything's done we can put them back together in the big cage. If Basil doesn't change his behaviour, we might have to separate him, same cage but sometheing to kepp him away from the others with the possibility of still hearing and smelling them. I'm hoping that won't be necessary.
 
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