Does Anyone Have A Group With Multiple Boars?

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i currently have five pigs, three boys and two girls. All of the bars are neutered, I was wanting to try and bond them all together, is this a good idea? Does anyone have experience with doing this? Any advice would be amazing thank you
 
The boars will almost certainly fight if you put them all together with the sows. I know some people keep 1 boar with sows. Or Just 2 boars together in a pair.
 
I agree with the above. Once you involve sows you can only have one boar for the group even if there is enough sows to go around. As a side note please wait 6 weeks after neutering before introducing. With that amount of piggies I suggest you keep two boars as a pair, and choose one to go with your sows. And keep in mind once a boar has been with your sows he will likely not go back to living with males happily. Best of luck deciding who that lucky boy is. However if your boars are a trio there is often an "outsider". Your outsider moving in with the sows would be the best bet to having a happy pair leftover I believe.
 
I agree with the above. Once you involve sows you can only have one boar for the group even if there is enough sows to go around. As a side note please wait 6 weeks after neutering before introducing. With that amount of piggies I suggest you keep two boars as a pair, and choose one to go with your sows. And keep in mind once a boar has been with your sows he will likely not go back to living with males happily. Best of luck deciding who that lucky boy is. However if your boars are a trio there is often an "outsider". Your outsider moving in with the sows would be the best bet to having a happy pair leftover I believe.
All my boars have been neutered for about a year, I already have one boar with the girls and then a pair (:
 
i currently have five pigs, three boys and two girls. All of the bars are neutered, I was wanting to try and bond them all together, is this a good idea? Does anyone have experience with doing this? Any advice would be amazing thank you

Two or three boars in a group usually won't work as fights are pretty much inevitable; neutering only takes away the ability to make babies but it doesn't stop their instincts and dominance behaviour. With very rare exceptions (the boars need to be REALLY good friends and both on the laid back side plus you'd better have tons of space to allow for several mini group territories), the rule is one neutered "husboar" per sow group. Guinea pigs are wired for sows to choose the boar they want to associate (and procreate) with and to form a social unit, not for boars to live together in one group with all sows shared between them.
It is not unusual to want having all your piggies living peacefully together, but that works only with larger numbers and lots of space; rarely in small groups with limited cage space. The wounds from a full-on fight between boars can be severe and if very unlucky even fatal; it is also very stressful for all piggies involved, as I can personally testify when groups of mine have accidentally met when grids between pens have come apart!

If you want to see a most amazing, purpose-built set-up that works, have a look at this German facebook page here. Please note that the whole garden area is fully enclosed (including aviary grids against aerial predators) and that the piggies also have got free access to a sizeable indoor space for cold weather/frosts with a large hay area. The lady is not a breeder, by the way, and all males are neutered.
Faszination Meerschweinchen | Facebook
 
Two boars in a group usually won't work as fights are pretty much inevitable; neutering only takes away the ability to make babies but it doesn't stop their instincts and dominance behaviour. With very rare exceptions (the boars need to be REALLY good friends and both on the laid back side plus you'd better have tons of space to allow for several mini group territories), the rule is one neutered "husboar" per sow group. Guinea pigs are wired for sows to choose the boar they want to associate (and procreate) with and to form a social unit, not for boars to live together in one group with all sows shared between them.
It is not unusual to want having all your piggies living peacefully together, but that works only with larger numbers and lots of space; rarely in small groups with limited cage space. The wounds from a full-on fight between boars can be severe and if very unlucky even fatal; it is also very stressful for all piggies involved, as I can personally testify when groups of mine have accidentally met when grids between pens have come apart.

If you want to see a most amazing, purpose-built set-up that works, have a look at this German facebook page here. Please note that the whole garden area is fully enclosed (including aviary grids against aerial predators and that the piggies also have got some indoor space for cold weather/frosts). The lady is not a breeder, by the way, and all males are neutered.
Faszination Meerschweinchen | Facebook
That is amazing! I want it! A vet l used to visit had a group of neutered boars and spayed sows living free range in her garden during the day, they got on fine apparently. I remember as a child our school had a huge area full of piggies, l suspect that they were not neutered though.
 
That is amazing! I want it! A vet l used to visit had a group of neutered boars and spayed sows living free range in her garden during the day, they got on fine apparently. I remember as a child our school had a huge area full of piggies, l suspect that they were not neutered though.

It is my idea of a dream set-up, too... But quite labour intensive with about three times the piggies I am looking after - and I find those plenty, thank you!

Because there are lots of different houses, nooks and crannies well away from each other, guinea pigs can form little sub-groups of their own choice with enough space to accommodate them all; they will come to eat together if necessary. It also helps that in Germany many boars are castrated as babies just before they become sexually active, so while they exhibit normal dominance behaviour, there are not the kind problems that we have here with very hormonal teenage boys.
 
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