Boar trio?

[somanypiggies]

Over the past while two of my boars have been fighting a lot, but because I still see them cuddling together a lot as well I was advised to leave them together unless they drew blood. After a couple months of on and off fighting, I’ve noticed a couple scabs on one of them so I think it’s time to separate them.

I was thinking of trying to bond the more submissive of the two to two of my other boars. I have a piggy I only recently figured out was a boy, and next week him and his son will be moving in together. The father is a fairly laid back piggy, and the baby is a baby, so I thought this might be an easy bond to form, if I have enough space. But I’ve been reading more about boar trios and it says they should all be over a year old before you put them in a trio. Does anyone have any advice or input?

Basically my only options are to have the two boys in separate side by side 2x3 cages, which I would feel bad because that’s small and they’d be alone, try to bond them to my other piggies, which I know could potentially land me with more single piggies, or rehome them, which would break my heart and I’d always worry about whether or not they were being taken care of properly.

 

[Piggies&buns]

A boar trio doesn’t work. Being over a year old is not going to make it any more likely. They need to be much older with testosterone long fizzled out but even then it’s definitely not a guarantee. Boars do much better in pairs And your piggies are certainly far too young to even consider it.

if you try to bond one of your boars with a functioning boar pair to make a trio, not only is it likely to fail, it also runs the risk of ruining the bond between the original two, so then all three of them could end up single.

if a piggy needs to be kept separate, then a 2x3 cage is too small, they need to be in A 2x4 but alongside the others for company.
a boar pair need a 2x5 c&c cage (6ft x 2ft / 180cm x 60cm) to have enough space.

they wouldn’t be alone as such though as they would need to be side by side cages so they can interact through the bars so wouldn’t be lonely.