Please Help! How do I stop bullying and/or baurbering?

[dawnsaddy]

I have two females who have been together since adolescence. They are about a year old now and have been switching dominance back and fourth the entire year. Now that they are done growing and they are the same size again, the dominance behavior has become worse and has twice in the last month turned into full on fighting. I separate them and then they both get lonely and squeak/wheek for the other so I let them out together and they usually make up and forget about it, but Napoleon (female) now has taken to flat-out chasing Marie and cornering her everytime I put them back together. Today I noticed Marie (a female long hair) was missing a large tuft of hair directly above her eye and Napoleon won't stop cornering her. They are separated again, but I really need to keep them together. Does anyone know what I can do to keep Napoleon from attacking/barbering poor Marie? PLEASE HELP!

 

[michellemuffin]

do they have plenty of room and lots of hidey places 2 of everything ie bowls of food and bottles of water playthings etc, I would try run time together but watch them if you see any naughty behaviour lift the trouble make out and walk about with her for a while then put her back again I tried this with my boys and it often works they seem to forget what they were moaning about, or throw in something like grass to distract the bad behaviour, you will have to patient and observant , I find it hard to explain why I have 14 girls in one hugh run my herd they are called and they never ever argue depsite adding a new one at times they just seem to accept her with no problems maybe having so many its pointless bieng the dominant one , if one dies during the night i often find them being curled up to keep warm by one of the other girls they all seem so close I have no worrys about any of them at all, the only thing was Jovi use to barber fudge and shanis hair as it was long but once she got a taste for veggies she was fine it stopped, patience and observation is the key and distraction being the choice of remedy I would use, if it contines you might have to seperate them which is s shame

 

[maisydaisystar]

i had a bullying problem with my 2 sows, Toffee was bullying maisy terribly, i tried everything to get them to get along but decided to seperate when maisy started to challenge toffee, Your situation sounds worse because they are both showing dominance. You may have to keep them seperate, some people reccomend bathing them together, or putting vicks on noses and bums so they have neutral smell on them, this didn't work for me though.
Now maisy lives with the neutered boar star and toffee is waiting for Charlie (rspca piggie) to live with her, get him saturday.
Hope it all works out.

 

[dawnsaddy]

yeah they do get lots of floor time and lots of veggies everyday, but the last few days they have had less floor time, so maybe that is part of Napoleon's problem. I'll try that two of everything trick if it starts again; this morning they are being nice to one another again.

 

[rachpark]

My girls have been swapping roles while they were growing up Hazel has always been the bigger pig and uses her weight to push past Smugde but Smugde is more vocal. Some times I hear lots of noise but I think thats all it is, if I watch them for a while they are just arguing. But recently smudge has been growling at hazel it sounds alot worst than it is but I think she is just growing up and showing her sister whos boss. I find if the weather is bad and they are inside all day they argue alot more, so lots of toys and fresh food. Mine fight when they are bored.