Hello,
I'm new here and a first time piggier owner. I've had my two boars since last September. I got them from a pet shop where they had been living together and the staff member said that they were about 3 months old, which would make them 10 months now.
I had moved them inside for the winter and in the last few weeks have started putting them outside again in the daytime to enjoy the lawn again but bringing them back inside at night. They quite often had stand offs and small scuffles while in their indoor cage but nothing too concerning.
Last week I moved them back into their outside hutch overnight, and when I went to feed them in the morning I could see that they'd been fighting. The long haired pig (who I believe is the dominant one), had a bald patch and some scratches on his back. Unfortunately I was due to go away that day for Easter and my neighbour was feeding them, so I put them in separate hutches and hoped that when I came back I would be able to start rebonding them.
However when I put them both in the larger outside run together today (with plenty of hidies and hay so they could get away from each other) a full scale war broke out within the first few minutes and so I have re-seperated them.
I've read the very helpful stickies and threads on here about fighting and rebonding but I wondered if anyone could let me know how best to proceed here and what I might have done wrong. Does it sound like it's hormones (in which case they can rebond ?) or does it sound like separate hutches from hereon in ? I hope thats not the case as they always seemed to enjoy each others company with the odd spat. Did I do something wrong by putting them back in the outside hutch so abruptly ?
Any thoughts on where best to go from here would be most welcome ! Thank you for your time.
I'm new here and a first time piggier owner. I've had my two boars since last September. I got them from a pet shop where they had been living together and the staff member said that they were about 3 months old, which would make them 10 months now.
I had moved them inside for the winter and in the last few weeks have started putting them outside again in the daytime to enjoy the lawn again but bringing them back inside at night. They quite often had stand offs and small scuffles while in their indoor cage but nothing too concerning.
Last week I moved them back into their outside hutch overnight, and when I went to feed them in the morning I could see that they'd been fighting. The long haired pig (who I believe is the dominant one), had a bald patch and some scratches on his back. Unfortunately I was due to go away that day for Easter and my neighbour was feeding them, so I put them in separate hutches and hoped that when I came back I would be able to start rebonding them.
However when I put them both in the larger outside run together today (with plenty of hidies and hay so they could get away from each other) a full scale war broke out within the first few minutes and so I have re-seperated them.
I've read the very helpful stickies and threads on here about fighting and rebonding but I wondered if anyone could let me know how best to proceed here and what I might have done wrong. Does it sound like it's hormones (in which case they can rebond ?) or does it sound like separate hutches from hereon in ? I hope thats not the case as they always seemed to enjoy each others company with the odd spat. Did I do something wrong by putting them back in the outside hutch so abruptly ?
Any thoughts on where best to go from here would be most welcome ! Thank you for your time.
but really it's nothing specific that you did, just that age I would think.
