Urgent help needed!

[Sunshine114]

I posted a while ago about my two boars, one bereaved at 18 months and a newly introduced baby boar.
They had quite a bit of tension when the baby was around three months including a lunge at each other, then it settled down.
It’s got bad again the last couple of weeks, culminating this evening in a chase which has resulted in an injured foot to our older boar (I think he caught it on a wooden ball when he was running) I didn’t see what happened before, just heard the chase. He’s broken a toenail which has bled and has a cut between two of his toes which is consistent with him catching it on the ball (which also had blood on it)
I got him out, bathed his foot and put him in the pop up playpen while I cleaned the c and c and sorted out. Anyway, the pigs started wheeking and almost looking for each other so I introduced the now six month old to the playpen. At this there was loads of vicious teeth chattering, the older boar kind of froze wide eyed and then they started circling each other.
I used lids from a plastic box to separate them and now have my older boar led on my lap and the younger one in the playpen.
What the hell do I do next? It’s almost half ten on a Friday night and I’ve no idea what to do!

 

[Betsy]

Can you keep them separate overnight? It sounds as if they have decided they don't like each other @Wiebke is the behaviour expert. I'm sure she'll be along soon.

 

[Sunshine114]

DH is home now and he’s got some spare c and c grids out of the garage so we’ve build a well cable tied partition between the two ends. They’ve gone back in (we already had two bottles, two bowls etc) and they seem ok. There was quite a bit of rumbling from the younger one, but the older one was more relaxed and carried on eating hay! They’ve gone up to the bars for a nose at each other but seem ok. They can’t get to each other anyway so they’re both safe. Fingers crossed this works!