Neuterd Male harassing the girls

[squeeksmom]

I have a question for the more experienced members...
I had Squeek neutered around 8 weeks ago...and bonded him and put him in with the 2 girls around 2 weeks ago.
They have been living verry happily untill last night.
He literally chases Millie down and climbs on her and does his thing..>>>
Poor Millie has had enough and just screams when he does that...
I assume she is in season, and he cannot make her pregnant, but I feel really sorry for the poor thing.
Is this normal behaviour?
I have seperated him from them for a bit now.
What I need to know is: is this normal? Will it get better? or do I need to seperate them?

 

[flips]

She is probably in season. It will settle down soon. Girls may give off scent for a couple of days but are only ready to mate for a couple of hours. They will make a big fuss if the boar wants to mount them when they are not ready. This may mean screaming, running away, peeing on his nose.
It may take a few seasons for everypig to understand the protocols of living together. My girls tend not to bother to run away so much now and tell Joe they are not ready in other ways.
I wouldn't separate your pigs but you can take one or other out for a half hour cuddle every now and then just to give the others a bit of peace.

 

[Doeylicious]

For some boys, yes it is very normal I am afraid.

My Dodge is possibly the most rampant guinea pig ever, his wife Cherry is sticky 99% of the time from his 'love juice', poor girl, he does listen when she turns round and tells him to naff off but it took him a fair while to get the message.

He is a lot calmer now though as he is around 18 months old so the hormones have settled down.

How old is Squeek?

If you left it for 6 weeks there is pretty much zero chance she can get pregnant unless your vet left one in there (highly unlikely) so don't worry about that side of things. It is probably as you say Millie is in season and he's now had two weeks to realise what girls are and what to do with them, so is going for it all guns blazing!

If you have separated them you will most likely need to start the bonding again I am afraid, as you will have changed the hierarchy again - it is wrong to assume a boar is automatically top pig as this is not always the case.

As long as no one is in pain or being suffocated please leave them to sort it out. He will hump and hump and until Millie tells him to go away, which she has to do of her own accord, he will continue to hump. If you had seen my Dodge and Cherry's bonding, for my first bonding it was a bit explosive as Dodge went down the 'every hole's a goal' route, but I knew I had to stick it out and I now have two of the most closely bonded pigs I have ever met.

Try a teddy like Suzy does to give poor Millie a break.

It should in my limited experience get better with age and calm down the longer they are together.

 

[Wiebke]

The only thing that neutering changes is the ability to make babies; the behaviour remains that of a full boar.

If it is any consolation, a strong season is also a way to create a strong bond between boars and sows through the shared experience. They are also following their natural instincts. You will always get bigger displays initially, as the sows' bodies are reacting to the presence of a boar. Thankfully, things tend to calm down over time, with the very occasional exception.

PS: Multiple sows in season at the same time can be truly mad; my neutered boar has currently 8 sows (he used to have 10 at one point) and they have their seasons in lumps, not nicely spaced out... Hywel is a very busy and very happy boar indeed - and so are the sows! There was a lot of squabbling in the interval between my old boar Llewelyn dying and Hywel taking over.

 

[squeeksmom]

Thank you all for the informative replies, I've only had them seperated for a couple of hours to give the girls, more Millie than Snowy, a break. He's been going on like a loonie! They were at it all night, he jumped in there with all his might.
I've had to remove a whole clump of her long hair from his bits, as he was not taking no for an awnser! Poor girl!
I hope he settles down soon or he might collapse from exhaution (with a smile on his face)

 

[Doeylicious]

Ah fab I thought you meant they had been separated for a while, a couple of hours isn't that bad, no worse than a vet visit

I hope he does calm down soon, cheeky little monkey.