fighting boars

First time piggie mum - I have had 2 beautiful boars for the past 4 months, they are fab. After a long time thinking of expanding our brood, I decided today to add another boar to our group. We saw a boar we loved via a local breader and decided it would be lovely as we had the space. I had...

Myself and my partner are relatively new guinea pig owners. We own a neutered boar (6-8 months old)and 2 spayed sows. (18 months old) for about 4 months now. We really wanted a 4th guinea pig to round out the herd. So today we adopted another boar. We put them in the same room but not the same...

Last night one of my guinea pigs bit the other. The one that was bitten was 5 months and he was bitten by a guinea pig who was 2 years 10 months. They are both boars. They are normally not aggressive with each other and the teenage one is actually the dominant one. He was bitten in the back near...

my guinea pig jumped into the other cage, and they both jumped onto eachother now one of my guinea pigs have a cut on his mouth and it doesn’t close

We rescued two boy piggies about four months ago. Generally they were fine until about a week ago where one of them (Troy) now is always rumble strutting and chasing the other (Atlas). He then mounts his head and potentially starts chewing his ears, although it’s hard to tell because Atlas ears...

Today, I went to get some new piggies for one of my boars, who recently lost his cage mates and was beginning to sink into a bit of a depression. I asked the rescue near me for the male herd who had been there the longest and was most in need of a home. I was delighted that her most needy boars...

Hey all, a little introduction to my girlfriend and I, we have three little boys Brownie(American), Oreo(Teddy) and Milo(English Crested)! As sweet as these little guys sound they are in a bit of trouble. Being brand new owners to guinea pigs without doing research, making most of the common...

Hi I need some advice. Our two boys do not seem to be getting on at the moment, they are constantly arguing with eachother. The only time they don’t seem to argue is when they are eating. They rumble and wiggle their bums which I know is a dominance thing, but then it gets louder and results...

Hi all, first time poster so unsure if this is the right thread? I have 2 boys (Gideon and Rossi) they were bought together and I was told that they were from the same litter. Their relationship has never been the best with teeth chattering etc but they have never got into fights until recently...

Hello, I have been trying to find a friend for my male (~2.5 year old) piggie, Casper. I found a sweet/troublemaker skinny pig and they did fairly well with introductions at the shelter, so we decided to try a foster-to-adopt. I started slow, switching dishes and hideouts then put them together...

Help please! We have 2 boars who were bought at the same time at around 8 weeks old but then at around 12 weeks old they had a fight where one tore an ear and the other cut across an eye. Had them checked at the vet and their injuries have luckily healed. I had separated them since the fight...

Hi! I have two male guinea pigs that I got at a pet shop, I chose those who seemed to be cuddling and playing together the most. They were still very young, they're approximately 6 months old now. However, about a month ago, they started fighting; after observing a little, it seems that one...

Hi guys! I rescued two skinny pigs from a local rescue in February. They are going to be two years old in July. I know that boys can be aggressive with each other, but I’m having a hard time determining if what I’m seeing warrants separating. One is specifically the bully, and the other never...

Sorry in advance for the long post! I posted here a few months ago about how my boy Rico passed away suddenly and I panicked and adopted 2 boys for his friend Kip. It literally happened on the same day because I was so distraught about Kip being lonely for any amount of time at all and just...

HELP! I have 2 boars (approx 1-2 years old) bonded since babies who have recently started fighting. I've had them four 4.5 months. At first I thought it was just some dominance assertion but it's starting to make me really nervous. Percy has started instigating and harassing Winston (the...

Hi everyone! I recently got my first two guinea pigs - just a few weeks ago - and they're both boars. I adopted them without much information beyond their age and relation (father and son; father is 17 months old, the son is eight months), and was told they got along well. Within the first day...

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...

As of now my two boars are having a pretty big stink with each other, of course they often have a lot of little fights about dominance or they get annoyed at each other (and it seems to be happening more and more lately...) but this evening it's been bad and I'm concerned. Teddy (who is the...

Hello, We just recently adopted two young boars, around 6 months and 7months old and everything has been fine until the other night, they started fighting pretty bad and I had to put a divider in their cage. I know some amount of rambunctiousness is normal, but one of them lost a decent chunk...

Hello! Sorry new to this, but wanted advice! I have 4 baby boys, 1 in quarantine for a URI and 3 together. The 3 have been find until recently, the newest addition to the trio keeps picking fights with the older male. He has scratches and bites on his rump and one on his lip. Would separating...