Bronstone
New Born Pup
Good morning everyone I hope you've all had a lovely Christmas, I'm just looking for some advice please. I've had guinea pigs before but it was some years ago and I've recently adopted a pair of pigs from work who weren't being looked after properly. Sadly one of them passed shortly after getting them moved into their new home, they were already living with a divider as the one that passed had taken chunks out the remaining pigs ears. I was then worried she would get lonely living on her own so got two young sows to keep her company. Backstory out the way I initially had them in a c&c cage with a divider in the middle for the first 3/4 days and they showed signs of getting along (sleeping at the bars together, trying to get in to see each other) then we moved into meeting on a neutral ground with plenty of space, toys and food. The meetings went well with some dominance from the older pig but they happily ate together and napped together so I decided to clean out the hutch and put them in together. They now share a 5x2 grid c&c cage with hay in several places, two water bottles, 3 hides and a couple of tunnels and are scatter fed. They have been living together for 2-4 days (apologies for the vagueness christmas blends into one haha) the older pig is still very much exerting her dominance and will chase the young pigs whenever they move and try to hump them. One of them runs away and seems to jump kick at the older pig but the other young one just sits and takes it but seems quite distressed about it and doesn't seem to want to move around much now but is still eating and drinking. Poor Janice has had her bits looked at more times than I care to say the past couple of days and pretty sure she's still a lady as I was told before. Should I be concerned or is this normal just the babies learning the place? Is Janice being a bully or just a bit of an to start with? Any advice would be very much appreciated, apologies for the long essay!