Boar Dating/fallout Advice

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Newbielou

Newbielou

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Hi I have four single boy piggies, 2 are recent rescues that came to me seperately another are 2 that fell out, ive tried to rematch jingle bells and fudge but its not happening. I also have 2 pairs of boy piggies they all live in a nice insulated/heated shed in seperate pens, at present my single boars can see each other and interact but dont share the same area. My dilemma is this I really cant justify four more piggies I think I can manage 2 more. Are there any rescues around lincoln (could travel a little way) that would attempt at bonding 2 of my pigs and then dating the other 2 to find them a companion. Friends have just said buy a few babies and pair them that way but I dont wanna risk more fall outs and I cant risk the potential for more single piggies. At least with a rescue I would have backup if they did fall out. Or do you think being seperated by a mesh divider is adequate and I should just stick with my eight lovely boars? Sorry I just need the opinion of people that understand. Thanks
Amy
 
How old are the boys? If they can see each other it is not so bad as if they are alone. When you tried to bond them what happened?
 
They can all see each other, yes. All my single pigs are divided my mesh so they can see another and often sleep and wheek to each other through the mesh. I feel guilty cos my 2 bonded pairs love a good snuggle my singles don't get that any more :-(.
Jingle bells and fudge used to be together until jingle bells had a problem with his back legs so was at the vets and with me in house for critical care every few hours etc. When I eventually put them back together fudge was fine with jingle but jingle won't tolerate fudge. I left it a few months only to try last week, all was fine with veggie distractions as soon as they were eaten and fudge tried to settle for nap jingle bells kept butting him. This escalated where jingle bells just launched at fudge and bit his lip. Fudge was bleeding so I separated immediately.
To be honest I haven't tried the others as I'm scared of hurting my boys again. Another single pigs let used to live with another piggie but he bullied him to the point fuzz lost a lot of weight so when a friend picked up 3 free to good homes on Gumtree I took the boy hoggle and paired him with fuzz.
My last single piggie is age unknown a lady I barely know came to my front door cos she knew I had piggies and gave me 2. She had found then for sale on a car boot sale in an ice cream tub for £1 each. Luckily both were healthy apart from mites so I kept the boy who I named bear and my friend took the girl to pair with her recently bereaved piggie. It worries me that bear won't accept a male because he was with a female :-(. Ages are jingle bells and fudge are nearly 3, pugsley nearly 2 and Bear around 5 - 9 months, bear was tiny but now he's being fed properly he looks almost adult sized so his age us purely a guess. Thanks everyone for your help, you can see my numbers are increasing steadily due to people not wanting their pets anymore :-(. Hubby has agreed to four more piggies if necessary as I have the room, he knows how I worry.
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Tried a bonding bath between Pugsley (almost 2) and Fudge (almost 3) they snuggled together and puglsey laid on Fudge at one point. I let the water out dried them off put clean towels on bottom bath and put them back in bath with a pile of hay. Things seem to be going too well at the moment theyve even laid down next to each other and eating
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I think ive added a photo, I hope it works. Thanks
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All went well last night they both ate from the same bowl this morning when i took their breakfast even though i took 2 bowls. Puglsey is top pig as long as fudge lets him go to bowl first pugsley is happy for fudge to join him. I'm gonna keep jingle bells and bear seperated by divider for now as bear isnt through hormonal stage and id rather wait to give them best chance possible. I know its still early days for pugsley and fudge but I'm feeling hopeful. Thanks for the advice
Amy
 
I havd no advice but just want to say wow. What an incredible piggymummy you are. You should be very proud :) It sounds real hard but hope someone can help you xx
 
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