Random blood drawn fight between two brothers!

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Hey everyone,

Something very odd just happened.

I got my two 1 year old (paired from birth) pigs out and put them in the playpen as usual.

Dexter started acting weird with heckles up and loudly chattering his teeth - i grabbed a towel and went to pick peanut up just incase and dexter lunged at him before i could catch him. Dexters broken peanuts skin on his face - its not a large cut but even still!

I guess i have no chance of these guys going back together. :(

I have no idea what happened!

Dexter is now back in the hutch calming himself down and peanut is enjoying himself in the indoor pen like nothing happened!
 
Oh no! Have you got any girls? Sometimes girls in season close by can start off fights. I would say that if they have drawn blood then no they cant go back together. Although if you wish to try, then neutral ground after a bath and lots of food can be helpful. But i would advise againist it unfortunatly.

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I'm not a piggy expert at all, but this is from my experience.

When Keith was still alive, I went down to feed the piggies their usual breakfast and noticed that Keith had blood on his ear - I checked him out etc and it turned out it was a sizeable guinea toothed bite from William.

I wasn't around to see the fight as it happened at night, apart from the blood and it being a little tender, William and Keith weren't separated and only ever had squabbles from that point on, which were general pushing eachother away from me for the attention :)):))

I think at 1 they are just very hormonal and are like teenagers.

A bath and food is the best option though.

Again I am no piggy expert just speaking from experiences.
 
oh no....

its horrible when they fight isnt it...

marley is missing a substantial chunk of his ear curtosy of fight between him and jaffa...

they get on fine now...

they went through a rough patch...

i would highly reccommend bathing them and putting them on neutral ground with LOTS of food.... just as abi-nurse reccommends....

good luck...
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Abi_nurse said:
Oh no! Have you got any girls? Sometimes girls in season close by can start off fights. I would say that if they have drawn blood then no they cant go back together. Although if you wish to try, then neutral ground after a bath and lots of food can be helpful. But i would advise againist it unfortunatly.

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Hi everyone thanks for the advice! We have absolutely no girls and were the only ones on this street that have guinea pigs.

I hope i can get them back together!

I have peanut indoors tonight just so i can keep an eye on him, hes given himself a good clean on the face and it looks much better - its certainly not a deep cut.

Both will be bathed together tomorrow and a seperate indoor cage setup to monitor them.

Silly boys! Why do they have to play so darn rough!
 
It will be ok. My males fight and two minutes later they eat and sleep together. It's just a way of putting the ranking low boar in his place.
 
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