Hi there I’m wondering if anyone has any advice for me?
My two boars Nutella and Cashew have started, I wouldn’t say it’s quite fighting it’s more like they are arguing, rumble strutting, teeth chattering etc. They have done this many times before but neither of them have ever gotten hurt and as I’ve read that one of the best things to do with boars is to leave them to it to sort out who’s boss, most of the time I’ve left them unless the one piggy was very visibly uncomfortable or I thought they were on the verge of a fight. But either way they always made up and went back to being besties. I’ve never really felt like I knew 100% who was the boss pig but for a while I thought it was Nutella, then I thought it swapped to cashew but now I have no idea! The other day cashew suddenly starting going at Nutella like they have done before, teeth chattering, mounting etc, but then Nutella finally decided he’d had enough and bit cashew right by his eye, I cleaned it and then took him to the vets, his eye healed and they seemed fine again, but last night and tonight they have just started teeth chattering and all that again and I just don’t know what it is! Anytime it’s happened before it’s returned to norma but they don’t seem to be solving it this time. the only things I can think of is, 1 could spring be messing with their hormones, 2 could it be only having 1 water bottle? They have had 2 all their lives until one broke, but then I noticed that they only seemed to use one water bottle even when they had 2 so I thought rather than buying them one they won’t use I’ll just let them keep the one.
If anyone has any ideas or advice it would be greatly appreciated
My two boars Nutella and Cashew have started, I wouldn’t say it’s quite fighting it’s more like they are arguing, rumble strutting, teeth chattering etc. They have done this many times before but neither of them have ever gotten hurt and as I’ve read that one of the best things to do with boars is to leave them to it to sort out who’s boss, most of the time I’ve left them unless the one piggy was very visibly uncomfortable or I thought they were on the verge of a fight. But either way they always made up and went back to being besties. I’ve never really felt like I knew 100% who was the boss pig but for a while I thought it was Nutella, then I thought it swapped to cashew but now I have no idea! The other day cashew suddenly starting going at Nutella like they have done before, teeth chattering, mounting etc, but then Nutella finally decided he’d had enough and bit cashew right by his eye, I cleaned it and then took him to the vets, his eye healed and they seemed fine again, but last night and tonight they have just started teeth chattering and all that again and I just don’t know what it is! Anytime it’s happened before it’s returned to norma but they don’t seem to be solving it this time. the only things I can think of is, 1 could spring be messing with their hormones, 2 could it be only having 1 water bottle? They have had 2 all their lives until one broke, but then I noticed that they only seemed to use one water bottle even when they had 2 so I thought rather than buying them one they won’t use I’ll just let them keep the one.
If anyone has any ideas or advice it would be greatly appreciated