Three’s a crowd. Boar bullying one of his cage mates.

[Festivefeet]

This past Feb we adopted three baby boars. They all seemed so happy together. Then puberty hit and we hit a learning curve as cavvy owners. I was unaware that three are not recommended. But here we are. We have built them a three leveled living space. Space to separate and get away. The different levels can be locked off by raising the individual ramps to close each floor off. Two of the boars that live peacefully together are Fred and Neville. But the other, Sirius, seems to have to live in exile because he gets terrorized by Neville. Neville will hunt Sirius down and traumatize him, even if Sirius was on his own floor minding his own business. So, now we have locked Sirius onto the top floor by himself. And Fred and Neville live together on the bottom two floors. We thought about putting Neville by himself and allowing Sirius and Fred to live together, but Fred has struggled with health issues since we got him and he has always seemed to like being with Neville. We didn’t want to stress Fred by taking Neville away. Also, when Neville is alone and separated from Fred, he wheaks and wheaks and wheaks.

I’m not sure what the right answer is. Hoping more experienced cavvy owners could offer some advice. Thought about getting Sirius another mate, but what if that doesn’t work either and that would really crowd up the living space. Ugh. It seems like Sirius living all alone would be sad and hard on his health since they are social animals.

Any thoughts.
I attached pics of the cage with the doors open.
Jessica

 

[Wiebke]

Hi! Sadly far too many shops and breeders still think that baby boar trios are fine to keep; yet around 90% of them end with some kind of separation or other either because you get one dominant boar going overboard or two boys ganging up on the third. In the worst case scenario, you can end up with three single boys.

How big is each level in dimensions?

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[Festivefeet]

Each level is 21 X 36.

 

[Wiebke]

Each level is 21 X 36.

Is that inches? That roughly equals 50x90 cm. That is just about touching the recommended minimum space for 1 piggy per level then.
Cage Size Guide