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Morning,
We have had 2 male pigs for 18 months and recently got 2 female. They are separated but within a v large run. One of the males is now chasing the other and trying to mount. Is this normal and is this caused by the girls?
 
Katiemummy said:
Morning,
We have had 2 male pigs for 18 months and recently got 2 female. They are separated but within a v large run. One of the males is now chasing the other and trying to mount. Is this normal and is this caused by the girls?
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Mounting in itself is a normal dominance behaviour and you will see it in boars in any event but keeping sows in the same room/space as boars can cause boars to fall out.
The advice is to keep them ideally in separate rooms, or if that isn’t possible in a stacked cage with the girls at the bottom so their smells do not fall down onto the boys. If they need to be both at floor level, then as far apart as possible and with cages where the divider is not see through and where the divider is higher and wider than the cage. Always ensuring you handle the boars first so you don’t transfer any girly smells to them.
 
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:agr: Do make plans to house them as far apart as possible and get it done today if possible.
 
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