Bonding 3 Adult Boars

[PepsiePiggy]

Okay so I have found myself in a very difficult situation. I have had my 2 boars Pepsie and Krull for almost 2 years now. Back in February I got my newest addition Finnegan as a young boar. He fit right in with Pepsie and Krull with very minimal bonding efforts on my part. The three of them were housed together in a very large, multiple layer C&C cage and everything was working out perfectly. Then I had to separate Pepsie from Krull and Finnegan because he had gotten mange mites. I had him in a dog run in my bedroom away from Krull and Finnegan for a month and now that his treatment is done I want him to go back with his little buddies.

I tried to reintroduce them in neutral territory one at a time, multiple times. Krull and Pepsie have clearly missed each other and seem to be having no problems getting along. Finnegan and Pepsie are fighting like crazy and act like they want to kill each other. I have no clue where to go from here because I really need to get them all to get along again and do not want to mess everything up by bonding them wrong. Any ideas?

 

[Wiebke]

I am very sorry for your dilemma, but I don't think that they will go back as a trio. You will have to decide whether you'll have Krull and Pepsie together again and find another solution for Finnegan. Trios are one of the most difficult constellations with boars, and it is therefore very prone to problems/fall-outs/bullying if there are changes.