can anyone advise me please

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liquorice allsorts

liquorice allsorts

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as some of you know, we have three boys in a large c&c cage, pepper is 4 and two boys, not brothers, but been together since weaned, they are now 8 weeks, and are called liquorice and hartley, all was well until we got them in from the garden yesterday, when liquorice started chasing hartley around, lots of sqeaking from both of them, pepper paying no attention whatsoever, hartley approached liquorice head on and liquorice jumped at him, and he did chatter his teeth, hartley did nt retaliate, watched for a while, and lots of squeaking and chasing but no actual fighting, we have noticed that liquorice sleeps with pepper, and hatley seperately, they ate together this morning, hatley did seem a bit wary of liquorice, i am going to put them all out together now on the grass, as that seems fine, can anyone tell me if i should part them now, i can leave pepper and liqurice tohether, and just put a partition down the middle of the cage, or shall i just keep watching and hope things calm down, i do realise the little ones are reaching adolescence now, i am holding my hands up here now and saying this may not work!
 
Trio can be difficult. I have only ever had two successful trios and that was because none of the three pigs were the dominant type so they all just lived happily.

I would personally keep them together still and see how it goes - because there has been no actual fighting I think it would be too quick to just partition one of them. This sort of behaviour can last several wheeks. One of my guinea pigs Lentil was very moody when I first got him and he attacked one of my pigs. Then when Hector died I thought I'd try Lentil with Jake, because Jake is very sweet. For the first few wheeks Lentil was very teeth chattery and I mean LOUD, aggressive chattering but Jake just ignored him. Now 7 months on and they're both doing great! Okay Jake does get his daily humps but he has really done Lentil the world of good.

As for Bounty, one of my guinea pigs - He is extremely aggressive at the moment (I have the scars to prove it from where I've had to stop him attacking another pig) so for now he is living alone until he 'hopefully' matures. He is 11 months so we shall see....
 
as the problem started yesterday when i brought them in from the garden, would it be wise to leave them in the cage today?
 
Ermm they're probably being more 'fiesty' than usual because they've been in a new environment. I'd still personally put them outside and just treat them as normal but this is just my own opinion.
 
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