Two baby males bonding with adult male

[Rainah]

Hi all I'm not new to 3 boys getting along with each other, my boy Wolfey was with Bruno and Jordan for a long time, Bruno and Jordan both passed away at separate times.

I moved Wolfey close to my 2 babies, they are a couple of months old now. Just to talk and socialise since he lost Jordan.

One night the babies let them self into my Wolfey cage by jumping on the roof of their house and over the bars to Wolfey while I was asleep to find them all cuddled together in Wolfey house. I have been slowly introducing them everyday to one another since that incident with floor time and letting them have access to each others area but i separate them at night. They have been getting along all day together and today I have them all in the outside run together for the first time.

Wolfey kisses the 2 babies and the 2 babies give wolfey kisses too. They have figured out the dominance already and they all seem very happy together.

I was going to get Wolfey an older mate but I worry since Wolfey is 4 and slow on his feet now that I will be left with one older piggy again. I didn't introduce the little ones to Wolfey they introduced themselves to him, I read up if piggys do this out of their own choice they are more accepting to having a 3rd piggy to their clan?

I have been lucky to have 3 males who got along before and hoping I am getting lucky a 2nd time round?

Does this look or sound promising?

 

[Wiebke]

Hi! Count yourself very lucky that is has worked for you once!

You have to brace yourself that things can change very quickly and dramatically once the babies hit the teenage months and the testosterone spikes.

Don't plan for success, but make plans on what you can do if (much more likely than not) is not working out in the longer term with the boy that is becoming the outsider, either by rowing with the others or by being bullied, which is by far the most likely scenario.
There is a certain risk that you can end up with three boars that will not get back with each other again; it has happened to forum members.

Having a plan B at the ready is an essential requirement when getting piggies on spec and bonding them at home, especially when it comes to sub-teenage boars. Rescue dating has shown that it takes on average about 1-3 candidates to find Mr Right if the boars can choose each other; this can rise dramatically in dominant, hormonal teenage boars.
Make sure that you have A LOT of space to allow the boars to get away from each other and lead separate lives if they wish to or have a set-up that allows an easy division if necessary.

There are stable boar trios, but they are very much a minority. All across the board, the fail/problem rate in trios of any combination is higher than the success. Getting the balance of personalities just right is not at easy. Add to that the huge changes and fluxes of the teenage months and you can see why the fall-out rate for boar trios with aub-adults is far in excess of 50%.

Boars: Teenage, Bullying, Fighting, Fall-outs And What Next?
Boars: A guide to successful companionship.

 

[Rainah]

What months are the teenage months?

I do have a plan B incase it doesn't work out.

Wolfey seems a bit of the outsider but he seems to prefer that as he tolerates the young piggys, I thought he was about 2 years old but I found his adoption paper to find he is actually 4 years old.

I have lots of space for them all day and night with their own separate house areas to be separated from one another which seems to be working fine.
I have triple of everything + more of, food bowels, water, hay

 

[Rainah]

I'm hoping the 3 of them get along together for now because Wolfey is sadly showing his age, everyday I am pleased to see he made it through the night.

 

[Reenie]

Hi, congratulations on a currently successful boar trio. I am one of the lucky few who have three boys who are still together at about 16 months old, however, I do still have a plan B! I would suggest that you don't separate them at night. If they are going to get on, then being together all the time is a better way to let them cement their bond, and you can make their space bigger, which also gives them the best chance. I failed dismally at bonding a fourth boar when my three were very young (I originally intended to have two pairs). It actually worked for a few days, but then I took the other boar out for a day as they were still sorting out hierarchy and I wasn't going to be around to keep an eye on things....when I put him back, all hell broke loose, and he ended up having to return to the sanctuary early (I was fostering him for them, and they had agreed to pairing him up, but guinea pigs were not their speciality, so they didn't give me any advice, and I hadn't discovered this forum at the time). My three boys DO have tiffs - you'll know this already as you've had a trio before, but they all wheek for each other if I take one out on his own for nail cutting or whatever, so I know they want to be together.

Oh and just to say - at 4, he could still have a good few years left in him. There are members on here with piggies who are 6,7,8 years, and there have been many live longer even than that.

 

[Rainah]

Thanks for the positivity Reenie, I know a lot of people are caring with worrying of 3 bours being together.

I separated them last night as I notice the nights the little boys get energetic and want to play with Wolfey but throughout the day they are all together all day.

This morning when took out the devider between wolfey and the babies they were so excited to see Wolfey and we're popcorning and both of them giving him kisses, Wolfey stood there closing his eyes enjoying the attention, was very so cute.

I will try ignore my anxiety tonight and let them all work out the night time.

 

[doosnska]

Hello! How did you go with bonding the three as they grew up? I'd love to hear an update!

Thanks for the positivity Reenie, I know a lot of people are caring with worrying of 3 bours being together.

I separated them last night as I notice the nights the little boys get energetic and want to play with Wolfey but throughout the day they are all together all day.

This morning when took out the devider between wolfey and the babies they were so excited to see Wolfey and we're popcorning and both of them giving him kisses, Wolfey stood there closing his eyes enjoying the attention, was very so cute.

I will try ignore my anxiety tonight and let them all work out the night time.

Hi all I'm not new to 3 boys getting along with each other, my boy Wolfey was with Bruno and Jordan for a long time, Bruno and Jordan both passed away at separate times.

I moved Wolfey close to my 2 babies, they are a couple of months old now. Just to talk and socialise since he lost Jordan.

One night the babies let them self into my Wolfey cage by jumping on the roof of their house and over the bars to Wolfey while I was asleep to find them all cuddled together in Wolfey house. I have been slowly introducing them everyday to one another since that incident with floor time and letting them have access to each others area but i separate them at night. They have been getting along all day together and today I have them all in the outside run together for the first time.

Wolfey kisses the 2 babies and the 2 babies give wolfey kisses too. They have figured out the dominance already and they all seem very happy together.

I was going to get Wolfey an older mate but I worry since Wolfey is 4 and slow on his feet now that I will be left with one older piggy again. I didn't introduce the little ones to Wolfey they introduced themselves to him, I read up if piggys do this out of their own choice they are more accepting to having a 3rd piggy to their clan?

I have been lucky to have 3 males who got along before and hoping I am getting lucky a 2nd time round?

Does this look or sound promising?

 

[Wiebke]

Hello! How did you go with bonding the three as they grew up? I'd love to hear an update!

Hi

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