Best Bonding Tips?

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sorry for all the posts.. I know it may be annoying but just want the best for my piggies!
so recently I had to split up my girls..
the pair was..
blossom - 4 years old - female - 2 health issues, fast growing curly nails, belly cyst(been there for over a year now and vet has said to leave it, they have drained it before and as it isn't harming her they don't want to remove it.
Jaffa cake - 5 months old - female - no known health issues.
now my issue is that Jaffa cake was recently attacked by blossom.. so I split them up
its been a week now and I'm going to give them one more week apart but then I want to give bonding one more try..
my plan is to bath both piggies (to get rid of the smell of them) then have play time together straight after, then to put them in a cage (that's been washed with vinegar water) with no toys, no pellets ect just fleece bedding, 2 water bottles and 2 hayracks for 24 hours.. then if they get along ill start adding 2 pellet bowls, some toys, some hides(all washed so no scent is on them..)
what are the chances this will work?..

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Hi! If your sows have come to cuffs badly, then the chances for success are small. In my experience, once sows have decided that another is no longer part of "us" (i.e. the group), even if it is a sister that they have been with from birth, or if there have been serious bites in afight, then they are very unlikely to change their minds ever again.

If they hold a real grudge, you will see teeth chattering and a high level of tension pretty straight away. I would not recommend to proceed in that case as that is not going to settle down even if you stretch the bonding over several days, and even if they just about go together, the old disputes are likely re-surface regularly in my own experience.

You can try, but I would strongly recommend not to get your hopes up.
 
that's a shame.. what am I best to do then? as I'm not in the place to get more piggies at the moment..
 
my4piggies said:
that's a shame.. what am I best to do then? as I'm not in the place to get more piggies at the moment..
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If the bonding doesn't work, jeep them next to each other for constant stimulation through the bars. The tips for fallen-out boars are the same as for fann-out sows, only that the second happens a lot less often.

If it is any consolation to you, my five heads strong peru group has just fallen out with each other in the power vacuum caused by the very dominant head sow stepping down. Two of the sows are now with the very last piggy they tolerate, having bombed several bondings and I have just found a new mate for the friendliest sow (after one of the others promptly got into a tiff with him several hours into the bonding). Instead of six cages, I now have got eight cages to clean... :mal:
 
You say the vet is leaving Blossom's ovarian cysts? The best way to treat her cysts would be Chorulon hormone injections given by the vet, sometimes a course of 3 are needed. If you treat her hormonal issues you will have a better chance of getting the bonding to work. If your vet is not a piggy savvy vet I would suggest finding another from our vet locator at the top. Not treating her cysts will leave Blossom very hormonal, bossy, aggressive & also probably in discomfort.
 
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