Bonding Boars

[piggiesinthegarden]

Hello all,
I recently lost one of my boars and have adopted a new friend for my remaining boar.
I've been slowly introducing them over the past 2weeks and today popped them into the neutral territory. There was your usual rumbling and strutting then happily eating next to eachother.
So 7 hours in everything seemed fine and I had emptied out the cage, cleaned it completely and set it up for bed time. However all of a sudden we've had a tussle, lasted seconds then after some posturing went back to eating.
There's been no more tussels but a lot more stand offs since, teeth chattering and it's now made me uneasy to put them in together overnight.
I know once they are together you should leave them together but I'm thinking this might be a failure even after such a promising start.
Can I separate and try again or is it doomed to failure?

Any advice would be most welcome!

Thank you!

 

[weepweeps]

Hello. I would leave them in the bonding pen over night. I always do a long introduction of a day and night just to be sure.

If you’ve already separated them then leave it a few days and start again. As long as they haven’t had a proper fight. Good luck. It sounds like they were getting on ok.

 

[piggiesinthegarden]

Thank you for your response, sadly where I was bonding them isn't a secure pen and I would be worried about leaving them out unsupervised overnight. I will leave them a couple of days and try again!

Hello. I would leave them in the bonding pen over night. I always do a long introduction of a day and night just to be sure.

If you’ve already separated them then leave it a few days and start again. As long as they haven’t had a proper fight. Good luck. It sounds like they were getting on ok.

 

[Piggies&buns]

Boars should not really be separated during bonding unless it actually fails. Separating during bonding causes the process to stop which means they need to go through the whole thing again.

You had them in neutral territory for long enough that any issues would have come to light.
Was it a minor issue and potentially you panicked and separated unnecessarily (and please don’t take that the wrong way, its not a criticism at all)?
Or was it that the altercation and subsequent escalation in tensions could mean the bonding was failing?
If the latter then things may not work out if you try again.

Now you have separated they will need to start from the beginning when you reintroduce them. Next time it’s make or break though. You can’t separate again unless it is clear the bond has failed.

 

[piggiesinthegarden]

Boars should not really be separated during bonding unless it actually fails. Separating during bonding causes the process to stop which means they need to go through the whole thing again.

You had them in neutral territory for long enough that any issues would have come to light.
Was it a minor issue and potentially you panicked and separated unnecessarily (and please don’t take that the wrong way, its not a criticism at all)?
Or was it that the altercation and subsequent escalation in tensions could mean the bonding was failing?
If the latter then things may not work out if you try again.

Now you have separated they will need to start from the beginning when you reintroduce them. Next time it’s make or break though. You can’t separate again unless it is clear the bond has failed.

I do fear I panicked, it's been a few years since I last bonded (well I bonded one of these fellas and my old boar only a few months ago but was the smoothest bonding you would ever see!) and the tussel got me worried although it ended with them both off eating grass again but then they kept having stand offs and I was so worried about moving them into the hutch overnight without being able to monitor .