ChrisC27
New Born Pup
Hi
We currently have 2 pairs of sows:
Piglet + Peppa we have had for 3 months, they're roughly 6 months old.
Ebony + Honey we have had for 3 weeks, they're about 4 months old we think.
They are currently in commercial cages but I am just putting the finishing touches to CandC cages. The C+C cages are both 4x2 with an L-shaped loft of 4x1(+1).
The 2 cages are in a combined L-shape themselves. I've done this partly to save grids(!) and with the hope that if they could all get along they could have one massive cage for the 4 of them.
I've read guidance on introducing one pig to another and one pig to an existing pair/herd.
Any advice on combining the 2 pairs into a 4?
Is it better to let them get to know each other through the adjoining grids first?
Piglet is very dominant towards Peppa (although when we first got the new girls in the house this seemed to kick off some attempted dominance behaviour in Peppa for a time).
Ebony is the dominant one towards Honey, although they will sometimes cuddle up to each other afterwards while the other two girls never do!
We currently have 2 pairs of sows:
Piglet + Peppa we have had for 3 months, they're roughly 6 months old.
Ebony + Honey we have had for 3 weeks, they're about 4 months old we think.
They are currently in commercial cages but I am just putting the finishing touches to CandC cages. The C+C cages are both 4x2 with an L-shaped loft of 4x1(+1).
The 2 cages are in a combined L-shape themselves. I've done this partly to save grids(!) and with the hope that if they could all get along they could have one massive cage for the 4 of them.
I've read guidance on introducing one pig to another and one pig to an existing pair/herd.
Any advice on combining the 2 pairs into a 4?
Is it better to let them get to know each other through the adjoining grids first?
Piglet is very dominant towards Peppa (although when we first got the new girls in the house this seemed to kick off some attempted dominance behaviour in Peppa for a time).
Ebony is the dominant one towards Honey, although they will sometimes cuddle up to each other afterwards while the other two girls never do!