Smelly Boars

AnnaHeath

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hi. I'm a new piggie owner had two boars for just over 4 months and got them about 10 weeks old. So I'm making an assumption their hormones are kicking in?

But they smell! The bed on fleece which I wash every 2/3 days. Clean them out every day. Literally an hour after cleaning I can smell the smell! It's a bit like an odd wee smell-could it be their scent?

I've noticed the abyssian actually smells like it sometimes but his coat is nice and clean. No clumps around his rear end. I even trimmed his hair around his bum yesterday. It's not unbearable but more embarrassing when we receive guests (they live in our kitchen diner which is the hub of our home)

What can I do/try? X
 
I have two sows therefore I cannot compare your situation with mine, but long ago I had a boar who did not smell at all... I don't understand the reason why your piggies smell so much.
What is the absorbent layer under your fleece? I use papers and I remove the wet spots almost every day. When I see my sows are dirty and a bit smelly I wash them (maybe once a month).
I don't know what suggest... it might be the food; certain veggies make the wee smelly. I hope there are not their hormones, otherwise there is no solution...
 
Sometimes I'm not sure but when they say Guinea Pig pee stinks it mean infection. Then again we aren't sure if it's his pee you can always try other bedding and see if it still stinks
 
Hi, I have two boys indoors and haven't noticed any major smell mostly just hay, although I do keep a Hepa filter air purifier on all the time so that may be helping :hmm:
 
Hi there! I have two pairs of boars.
One pair never smell and the other guys stink! They both have the same bedding and food. I've put it down to scent marking as one of the stinky guys is a very dominant boar and I see both of them dragging their rears over the bedding after cleaning and when going into the run.:vom:
 
When my boars stank a lot they were soaked with the (I guess testosterone) from bonding... maybe try bathing them and inspecting the layers of the cage
 
Hi I have cage liners made with fleece wadding fleece, the cage liners don't smell like the smell coming from the cage, even when they're ready for a change. It could be their diet I guess....and one of them (the short haired one) scent marks the second I put his tray back in the run. They live in a run and have the base of a cage lined with fleece...... Maybe the scent markings are on the run liner rather than the cage liner... And that's what smells..... Ummmmmmm.
 
Here's what I recommend...

Clean out the fleece, cage, cage liners, and run plus anything else in the layers of the cage. Doesn't have to be super fancy, just like a wipe-down...

The moment the smells start up again examine where excactly the smell came from and (possibly) which pig did it.

Best wishes
 
Sometimes if you clean everything in one go, they smell worse because they go round re-scent marking everything! I change the fleece one day and then the beds and hides another day. That way some of their scent still remains. I do have sows though which are much less smelly, apparently.
 
Yep Eileens mum is right. I have three boars, and they get smelly quicker if I change everything at once. It's like a poopathon come butt dragging spree. I feed mine mainly on grass and hay, and they definitely smell less since I've been doing that. They still get a little amount of veggies and pellets, but I steer clear of things that have a reputation for smelliness, if you know what I mean? Very little broccoli, cabbage and such like. I suspect pellets also make their wee more concentrated, as mine drink more if they've had more pellets than usual. These are purely my observations, there is no science behind it.
 
If your cage higene is as it should be, the its probably Boar feramones! Bathing is not going to do any good, and it will strip the sence of identity :soz:

Personaly l love the smell of boars :lol!:
 
My two boys go through really stinky phases - right now our living room smells to high heaven of boy-pigs, but it only lasts a couple of days and then they seem to calm down for a few weeks..

I don't mind the smell all that much, I've a dog at home too, so pretty sure all our guests smell is animals!
 
AimeeOx said:
My two boys go through really stinky phases - right now our living room smells to high heaven of boy-pigs, but it only lasts a couple of days and then they seem to calm down for a few weeks..

I don't mind the smell all that much, I've a dog at home too, so pretty sure all our guests smell is animals!
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It's better than cat pee.I don't invite people in for that reason.We have a cat we took in as he was treated badly by his owner and his owner said somebody better take him so I dread to think what would've happened if I didn't.He was very scared of men at 1st, would run and hide If my brother etc came into the room.He pees all round the house, I think he must be marking his territory as we have other cats too.Ive tried feliway to try and calm him but it didn't work.I just have to put up with it as I love him so much and would never give him away.
 
Oh bless him, and you @Gem789 for taking him in - is he neutered? Our old Tom (he lived in the garden, don't know where he came from but would never come in the house) was a stinker until he was done..
 
AimeeOx said:
Oh bless him, and you @Gem789 for taking him in - is he neutered? Our old Tom (he lived in the garden, don't know where he came from but would never come in the house) was a stinker until he was done..
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Thanks, he's such a friendly cat.Yes he is neutered already so not sure what else I can do x
 
@Gem789 don't know if you can get hold of some of Vicky Halls books (maybe your library may stock them) she has some very useful tips for helping spraying cats and insights into why they do it. Really helped me a few years ago and my daughter has found her helpful with some problems she has been having with a cat she took in recently.
 
Eileen's Mum said:
Sometimes if you clean everything in one go, they smell worse because they go round re-scent marking everything! I change the fleece one day and then the beds and hides another day. That way some of their scent still remains. I do have sows though which are much less smelly, apparently.
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Reenie said:
Yep Eileens mum is right. I have three boars, and they get smelly quicker if I change everything at once. It's like a poopathon come butt dragging spree. I feed mine mainly on grass and hay, and they definitely smell less since I've been doing that. They still get a little amount of veggies and pellets, but I steer clear of things that have a reputation for smelliness, if you know what I mean? Very little broccoli, cabbage and such like. I suspect pellets also make their wee more concentrated, as mine drink more if they've had more pellets than usual. These are purely my observations, there is no science behind it.
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I agree too. It's helped me with making my boys less smelly, one day I change the cosies etc and the next the liners. So they've always got familiar smelling bedding in the cage. I find it helps with dominance issues too.
 
I think some guineas are just stinky. Archie loves stinking up the place, but he does it at a consistent rate.
 
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