Piggy1011
Junior Guinea Pig
Hi everyone,
Just wanted to share my experience with 3 boars.
So I rescued a boar( Piggie). I was told he was 2-3 but I think he is 3-4 personally. He was quite stressed with previous owner, he was all on his own. Also had mites the poor thing. I knew I would get him a friend eventually.
When he was with me I cleared up his mites, and 3 weeks later started thinking of my options. I decided with 2 baby boars as I didn’t want to put Piggie through an op as I thought the risk of loosing him was too high to take.
So they were in the same room for two weeks, Piggie cheered up emensely, he was a different pig. I was over the moon as you can imagine. The babies didn’t seem to notice him tho I’m sure they smelled and heard him.
I decided i would put them together to see how things go. The first thing I did was to have them side by side in separate cages. They were more than interested in each other and seemed like they wanted to meet. A few days later I set up a run and let them meet each other. Squiglet and Snowball are the babies (12weeks atm). Snowball is most definitely the more dom out of the two, so I could already see I might have problems with him and Piggie. At first they were teeth chattering and snowball trying to hump Piggie, rumblestrutting just between these two, Squiglet stayed right out of the way, bless him. 2 hours later they had calmed down a lot. I think snowball is top pig surprisingly!
I previously set up a 5x2 cnc cage, for the mean time. I am going to go bigger for them. I put them all in together, abit more teeth chattering and rumblestrutting between Piggie and Snowball, with Piggie trying to mount Squiglet. And they seem to be absolutely fine. I know this will probably change as they get older and I will increase the cage in a month or so. But so far so good.
What does everyone think about this? I’m sure some opinions out there
Just wanted to share my experience with 3 boars.
So I rescued a boar( Piggie). I was told he was 2-3 but I think he is 3-4 personally. He was quite stressed with previous owner, he was all on his own. Also had mites the poor thing. I knew I would get him a friend eventually.
When he was with me I cleared up his mites, and 3 weeks later started thinking of my options. I decided with 2 baby boars as I didn’t want to put Piggie through an op as I thought the risk of loosing him was too high to take.
So they were in the same room for two weeks, Piggie cheered up emensely, he was a different pig. I was over the moon as you can imagine. The babies didn’t seem to notice him tho I’m sure they smelled and heard him.
I decided i would put them together to see how things go. The first thing I did was to have them side by side in separate cages. They were more than interested in each other and seemed like they wanted to meet. A few days later I set up a run and let them meet each other. Squiglet and Snowball are the babies (12weeks atm). Snowball is most definitely the more dom out of the two, so I could already see I might have problems with him and Piggie. At first they were teeth chattering and snowball trying to hump Piggie, rumblestrutting just between these two, Squiglet stayed right out of the way, bless him. 2 hours later they had calmed down a lot. I think snowball is top pig surprisingly!
I previously set up a 5x2 cnc cage, for the mean time. I am going to go bigger for them. I put them all in together, abit more teeth chattering and rumblestrutting between Piggie and Snowball, with Piggie trying to mount Squiglet. And they seem to be absolutely fine. I know this will probably change as they get older and I will increase the cage in a month or so. But so far so good.
What does everyone think about this? I’m sure some opinions out there
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