One big step forward: Tegyd has met all girls yesterday during a session on the lawn. She had started to make friendly overtures through the bars in the previous two days, so I judged that the time was right for a serious try.
I started out with my two gentlest sows Hafina and Telyn and then slowly added the others one by one as the afternoon progressed. We had one hickup when Ceri provoked a face off (and another flying tackle from Tegyd), so Ceri had to go back to boarsit a miffed Hywel nearby, who felt decidedly left out! None of the other girls picked Tegyd up on her behaviour, so overall things went better than expected.
Tegyd is a dominant girl, who will go quite blustery and aggressive whenever she gets afraid, so I have to go very carefully with her. She also has developing cataracts (not that they seem to impede her much, considering that she is already pretty blind on one eye).
Here is her in one of her dominant moments (video)
Eventually there were all girls in the run without Tegyd freaking out:
And even later on I dared to add some hideys:
Tegyd even made a couple of friends to snuggle up with:
But we will need a few more sessions on the lawn to help her relax around other piggies before we let her loose with Mr Full-on Macho himself! The two have been popcorning together through the bars yesterday morning, so I am hopeful that a second meeting will last longer than half a minute and not end up in a fight all that quickly!
I started out with my two gentlest sows Hafina and Telyn and then slowly added the others one by one as the afternoon progressed. We had one hickup when Ceri provoked a face off (and another flying tackle from Tegyd), so Ceri had to go back to boarsit a miffed Hywel nearby, who felt decidedly left out! None of the other girls picked Tegyd up on her behaviour, so overall things went better than expected.
Tegyd is a dominant girl, who will go quite blustery and aggressive whenever she gets afraid, so I have to go very carefully with her. She also has developing cataracts (not that they seem to impede her much, considering that she is already pretty blind on one eye).
Here is her in one of her dominant moments (video)
Eventually there were all girls in the run without Tegyd freaking out:
And even later on I dared to add some hideys:
Tegyd even made a couple of friends to snuggle up with:
But we will need a few more sessions on the lawn to help her relax around other piggies before we let her loose with Mr Full-on Macho himself! The two have been popcorning together through the bars yesterday morning, so I am hopeful that a second meeting will last longer than half a minute and not end up in a fight all that quickly!
hope they keep up the good friendship work will keep my fingers crossed for you and the tribe! 
