Question about Washing Fleece - Girls and Boys

[PingandChipy]

I have 4 pigs now. I have 1 female living with a neutered male. And then an older male with a 3 week old male. My question is about washing their fleece. Do I need to keep the fleece separate so that my boys don't fight? Or can I wash it all together.

Will washing it take the female smell away? I hope this makes sense! p

 

[flintstones]

I imagine it would... but I'm not sure.

 

[KimberleysWheekers]

I have two trios, a sow and two boars in each. I have two of everything (same fleeces etc) as I like their cages to be exactly the same (sad, I know!) but I don't pay attention when I wash them to keep everyones seperate. I also only have one carry case so I clean them out alternatively so they go into it one trio after the other. The smells of the fleeces/box have never seemed to bother the other trio at all.

 

[CiaraPatricia]

I think it'd be fine. You'll know if the boars smell the female because they'll make a rumbling sound and go around looking for her! Mine do anyway, because they share a run (at different times of course) with the girls, so they can smell them in their and start rumbling. (Their two new runs should be coming today though, so no more sharing, woohoo!)

 

[Wiebke]

I would wash them together, but make sure that I give them each always only "their" fleeces, if that makes sense?

 

[nutmeg]

I wash all mine together, and they don't each have their own. That would be impossible for me for all the fosters. xx