Naughty Sooty and Sweepy are Fighting

[This Little Piggie]

Help 6) We have fighting in our Pig Brother House

Last week Sweepy wouldn't let Sooty eat but we got over that by feeding 2 lots of everything in seperate areas of the house the guys were not seperated, we just put one lot at one end and the other lot at the other end. Sweepy does not like Sooty to come out of the bedroom and blocks the doorway most of the time. I think Sooty has had enough and has come out thinking ok it fisticuffs at dawn mallethead Sooty is now jumping on Sweepy and there is alot of growling going on, with both heads raised. Sooty sometimes bites Sweepy, but sometimes they both walk off in a hugh.

Any advice would be greatly received, long suffering husband is in the shed keeping a watchful eye.

 

[flintstones]

How old are sooty and sweep?

It sounds like bullying, has blood been drawn?! Wounds inflected?

 

[This Little Piggie]

No wounds, they are 1 year old, naughty boys.

 

[flintstones]

How long have you had them now?

It could just be because it is new territory. Have you started weighing them yet?

Incase one doesn't let the other eat.

A bath together can help! Aslong as there is no wounds and both are eating I would stick with it!

Made sure you check really well for wounds though its amazing how easy it to miss them.

 

[nutmeg]

Sooty and Sweepy have lived together for a long time, so they are probably just trying to establish who is boss of the new house.
When you say blocking the entrance to the bedroom....if possible have two holes/cutouts into the bedroom area then they can run through, in and out, and no one pig can rule over it. You could even remove the bedroom area completely which I always do. You probably saw when you came round that non of my cages had the bedroom bit in, with the one hole entrance, I always take them out, and put in fiddlestix, hidey holes, boxes, anything really.
Hopefully there won't be any wounds, it's more a case of re-establishing the pecking order. When I first got my two boys Rolfy and Harris, every time I cleaned them out and put them back they used to argue about who was boss of the newly cleaned house! It settled down after a while, I knew they got on usually.
Please don't be tempted to separate them unless absolutely necessary as separated boars rarely get back together again, and these lads have been together a long time getting on well.
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[This Little Piggie]

Sooty and Sweepy have lived together for a long time, so they are probably just trying to establish who is boss of the new house.
When you say blocking the entrance to the bedroom....if possible have two holes/cutouts into the bedroom area then they can run through, in and out, and no one pig can rule over it. You could even remove the bedroom area completely which I always do. You probably saw when you came round that non of my cages had the bedroom bit in, with the one hole entrance, I always take them out, and put in fiddlestix, hidey holes, boxes, anything really.
Hopefully there won't be any wounds, it's more a case of re-establishing the pecking order. When I first got my two boys Rolfy and Harris, every time I cleaned them out and put them back they used to argue about who was boss of the newly cleaned house! It settled down after a while, I knew they got on usually.
Please don't be tempted to separate them unless absolutely necessary as separated boars rarely get back together again, and these lads have been together a long time getting on well.

Thanks Jane, Chris is as we speak making another doorway in the bedroom so
nobody gets trapped. I to think they are just having a domestic and making their mind up who is the boss in their new home. I don't like watching them growl at each other, I'm worried incase one of them gets hurt (I love my piggies) I would not seperate them unless either of them is coming to harm.

Thank you for your help, I will keep you posted.