boar behavior

Hello everyone. I have an adult neutered boar and an adult female sow living together in a C&C cage. Up until now they have used their hides without any problems. Due to it being winter I have put a blanket over the edge of the cage to provide some cover on the side as well as overhead, which...

So I have two boars (7 months and 3 years) and sometimes one of them will get all active and try to hump the other one a lot due to a spike in hormones(it happens to both pigs so I don't know if it has to do with age) and they also live in my bedroom. The cage they are in is 5ft by 2.5ft and has...

Hello everyone! To start, I have an anxiety disorder so looking for friendly advice about my two boars, Basil who is around 19 months old and Pickle who is 11 months old. I am aware these can be tough times for boars, and I’m seeing frequent daily displays of dominance behaviour. With my...

I have been doing a LOT of reading on here the last 48 hours. I have gained much information. But a few questions remain for my situation that I didn't see answers for. Background: I have a bonded pair of boars, about 10 months old. Kermit has been dominant from day one. Peanut is VERY...

Hi So I have two boars that I've been working on bonding for months now. They are housed in side by side runs and I've been getting them out in a neutral area for play sessions. They are finally showing signs of being happy together (i.e laying down together, sharing hay etc), but I don't...

I will be getting a third boar in a week or two. He's a senior piggie I'm taking in because his brother died about a year ago, and his owners can't give him the attention he needs. I already have two boars that get along okay, but aren't super good friends. The plan is to place their cages flush...

Got a c&c cage 5x2 and put both boys in it yesterday. (They where in a pet shop cage for a few months Till I realised they needed a bigger cage) anyways since being in the bigger cage they seem to be I think it’s play fighting more. They will chase eachother, growl (I think), sometimes do the...

Hello! My 2, 7-month-old boys almost had a falling out when they were 4 months, but sorted it out. Their hierarchy somehow COMPLETELY changed, and the previous submissive piggie is now dominant, but they seem at peace with it. There’s been some new bickering recently, more intense this time, I...

Hello everyone! It’s me *again*, the most worried pig dad in the world. I have 3-month-old boars who haven’t gotten along great since I got them 3 weeks ago, but since then, it’s gotten much worse. No actual fighting with blood, but they’re chattering very loudly ALL the time, to the point where...

Hello! Our two boars are about 2.5 years old and have been bonded since birth. We have noticed that they go through periods of peace and then have some periods of very rowdy rumblestrutting every couple of months. No violence, just Squash bothering Pickle and not allowing him to do anything...

Hi everyone, My boy Sonic underwent bladder surgery on Wednesday, July 6, to remove a stone shown in the XRAY. However, when they opened up his bladder, they only found a lot of sludge and were able to clean some, but some of the sludge went to his prostate. Thankfully, he made it through...

I would appreciate any help & advice! I've had my two bonded males for about 6 months now; one is a year & a half old, and the other is 9 months old. The older piggie has always been Mr. Dominance, and the 9 month old has always easily submitted. I was out of town for one night & my husband...

Okay now I’ve read through all the info on boar pairs but I still can’t figure out what to do. Here’s the story: I brought home two boys that were together at the pet store in august 2020. Gumball and Darwin. They got along really well. The same day there was another pair in the cage beside...

I've had my two my guinea pigs for just over a year and one of them has been sucking his private parts for a few months. I know that licking themselves is how they might clean themselves but he makes very loud whimpering moaning sounds when he does this. I know that he's not just eating his poo...

I've had these guinea pigs for about 3 months now, I got the younger one first (Peanut) , and then a bit later I got a second one who was a few months older (Cashew). They are both under a year old and when I got Cashew, he was the submissive one, even though he was older. They really got...

We adopted a guineapig and she ended up pregnant with a little boy. So we are attempting to find a bond for him. We neutered him and turns out he is clearly has only child syndrome and seems to be pretty opinionated. He got along with all but one girl and bullied her to the point he needed...

Hello, my herd of four has been introduced for about a month now, and they had been fine. I have my guinea pigs in my bedroom so this morning I woke up to very loud squeaking, some squeaks shrill. I got up to check on them and Bunny - the (neutered) boar and leader - was chasing my three girls...

Please help, for the past hour my guinea pigs won't stop being crazy to each other. Randomly started at 3:30 am, now its 4:30 am. I got Bomi and Yumi in May when Bomi was around 2 months old, Yumi around 6 months old. Bomi used to keep trying to mount Yumi from the back, Yumi would mildly try...

Hi! I am a New Guinea pig owner so forgive me if I seem a bit clueless! I got two boars back in December, two siblings who just turned 3 months old. They do quite a bit of rumble-strutting, which I understand is a boundary setting/dominance display. They've never reared/lunged/nipped/hissed or...

Hi everyone, I have a pair of boars who i went through the bonding process with back in july/August. One of them is now about 1 and a half years old and the other is about 7 months old. They have become quite hard to manage, in terms of aggression towards both myself and each other. Whenever I...