Sad boy pig....

[PiggyMom5]

Hi all! I'm fairly new to this forum, and I'm hoping someone with more experience could help me out.

It's kind of a long story, but I'll try to shorten it. We had two female pigs. We adopted a third female from the shelter, and they all lived together. We discovered that the third was not, in fact, female and one of our girls is pregnant. We had to separate the boy from the girls. What we did was get him an identical enclosure to the girls and put it next door. His cage is lower than theirs, but he can stand up at touch noses with the girls, and he can see them all the time.

So this is my problem: Doodles (the boy) seems sad. He hides in his pigloo all day or stands at the edge of the cage looking at the girls.... My husband wants to go adopt a boy from the shelter to give him a friend, but I'm not sure... We are about to have babies, and maybe one of them will be male? Forgive my ignorance, but I'm really not sure what to do. Do we adopt another boy or wait a few weeks for babies and hope one is a boy?

 

[klee]

I hope everything goes well with the pregnancy and birth. I'm no expert and I'm sure someone more experienced will come along soon.
If it was me I'd be inclined to wait and see the sexes of the babies and then go from there.
You could pop a soft toy in woth your boy for him to snuggle into, and see how it goes- how long has he been separated?
If you need any help sexing the babies you can pop an post on the pregnancy section with some pictures of the babies privates so someone can tell you for definite whether they are boys or girls.
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[Rachel WD]

I think I'd also wait until the babies arrived. If at that point you still have no boys to pair him up with, I'd be thinking about getting him neutered and letting him live with all the girls.

You'll have to give him lots of cuddles in the meantime.